Hello and welcome,
I too have just recently joined. I wanted to post my introduction but I do not have the ability to start a thread yet. So....
Hello everyone! I am very glad to have come across this forum. I have been a member of AK for sometime which is how I indirectly found out about this forum. I joined there in August of 2006 and only 35 posts so I guess I am more of a lurker than anything else
This is a great forum that amazingly seems to have a topic for almost all of my passions in life.
Anyways, glad to be here and sorry to kind of hijack your introduction thread cmalak.