Greetings from an old forum member...

[Vegeta_AO]

ZEROte- yep, I remember that team. I chatted with Dayspring all the time on IRC.

As of today I am now located in Rolla, MO. Finally all moved in.

[bentothejam1n]

how far away is rolla from kansas city?? And do you have any relatives in kansas city specifically the lenexa/shawnee area?

[Vegeta_AO]

I wouldn't even know how to approach KC from Rolla. I know that from around where I used to live in Farmington MO, to travel to KC took about 5 hours. Rolla is right in the middle of the ozarks and to get to KC you would either have to travel to STL via 44 (Rolla is on 44) and take 70 out of STL to KC, or take some letter/small highways up to 70 to get there.

[bentothejam1n]

gotcha
so do you have any relatives in the kc area?

[Jonno06]

no one ever remembers me





except maybe, "jonno....the post whore?","yea, thats him"


haha.




welcome back man.

[Arstron]

I wouldn't even know how to approach KC from Rolla. I know that from around where I used to live in Farmington MO, to travel to KC took about 5 hours. Rolla is right in the middle of the ozarks and to get to KC you would either have to travel to STL via 44 (Rolla is on 44) and take 70 out of STL to KC, or take some letter/small highways up to 70 to get there.

Farmington huh? I live around a 100 miles south of there at the "Home of the throwed rolls" (sikeston). I cant rember now if it was farmington (i belive it was) or fredricktown that had the old kart track a few years ago, but I was at one of them a few times for that.

[Vegeta_AO]

Jonno, yea, post whore.

Fredricktown had a karting track. probably not anymore though.

I have no reletives in the KC area,

I lived north of farmington about 15 minutes (Bonne Terre). South St. Louis county was about a 45 minute drive.

[Army]

Heya Veggie-poo! Good to see you again.

Just to update you: Tom sold all factory stock to his former XO Dave, and stepped down as President of AGD, which post Dave assumed. Tom still owns AGD and Perfect Circle, but now spends much more time on his Astronomy projects, bone collecting ventures, and un-interupted with his family....and no longer has the paintball industry headache. He still makes it to serious scenarios though, the next being Shatnerball in California (the evolved SPPLAT). Evil semi-sorta-kinda confirmed rumors has Tom working on a new gun design...but there has been NO confirmation in any form. If you remember the big telescope lens being ground to shape in the back room, it's done. Tom has also contributed a display at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, that lets YOU create a crater on the moon, using a slightly modified AIR valve and empty PC shells at high velocity into a very fine dust. Perfect actual impact craters are formed in the same manner as nature.

Phil is still playing some paintball, but has discovered Vespa scooters and their collectable status, along with the fun in riding them. He has become as serious an authority on them as he was/is on paintball. For personal reasons, he has ended his Mod status but continues to post as UnkaPhil.

We have a new Mod in England, MarkM, who keeps us updated on the Euro-paintball scene, and has a hard time understanding American humor (Monty Python shot there )

Miscue, 'Tato, RobAGD, Tunaman, LoadSM5 and myself are still here. BlackVCG had been very busy with school, but still keeps his hand in here. NeroBro was made Chat Room Mod, and contributes to AO whenever he isn't wrecking his motorcycle (got busted up pretty bad, he's OK now). Speaking of bike wrecks, Z-man found a deep surprise washout while dirt riding, and busted his legs badly. Unfortunately, he didn't land on his head which would have saved him any injuries ...his spirits are way up though, and he's doing fine. I took a year off (as have many AO members) to tour the lovely semi-desert hinterlands of the northwest Tigris Valley in Iraq (OIF-2). Dodged a few, ducked many, and came home OK.

Jon Comprado has left AGD to put his college time to good use, and has been spotted still driving the AGD Cougar.

Tunaman has his own Automag custom service center, TunaMart, and as far as I know, has never received a complaint.

So, now you are somewhat updated on AO and AGD

[shartley]

Well hello again. Yes I am still around, but just drop in from time to time. I frequent other forums but can still be contacted easily enough.

Good to see things are going well for you.

[Smoken]

What up?

Your name is familiar to me. I am just returning myself after hearing about Shatnerball from a friend.

[Vegeta_AO]

Nice to see you Army and SHartley.

Wow, Things have changed a bit. It's nice to hear Tom is doing what he loves. I remember him talking astronomy and dinosaur bones all that time ago....

It is funny, I can recall how when I was younger on this board I always loved the tinker forums where we talked about marker designs and I did my share of quikie MS Paint drawings with the internals. Now this week I am starting my major as a Mechanical Engineer. Only instead of paintball guns I hope to be working on race cars (Porsche in Stuttgart is my main goal, also Formula 1 is in mind.) Nothing thrills me more than speed.

The party scene is already cooking down here as UMR is one of the top party schools in the midwest. Of course, it is also one of the top engineering schools in the nation, so I believe I took the right choice. Alternate mindsets are already common on weekends though. And the upperclassmen don't move in till next weekend.... :-/

Hopefully I will stay around a bit and keep in touch. I hope to try to get back into the chat room and meet with some more old friends.

I hope this post makes good sense, it's late here... or something like that. LOL.