What amazes me is how fast those ten years went by. I joined when I was living in Chapel Hill NC and now live in the suburbs of Chicago. I lurked here for a while and finally joined do to some problems I was having with a cue that made a buzzing noise randomly. I figured someone here would have answers to my problems and I was right. The title of that thread was Buzz in Da Butt and the cue was my first fairly expensive cue. I never gave up the cue makers name (and have no intention of that now)but that cue was repaired so many times it should have gotten frequent flyer miles. The ivory joint became loose, the A joint buzzed, it had to be rebuilt numerous times. I eventually sold it personally to a flipper in the Chicago area and lost my butt on that cue. I told the person I sold it to about everything wrong with it, sold it cheap and moved on, he in turn sold it to someone. That thread was lost along with many others when AZ went to it's present format.. Been a great decision to join AZ, the free flow of information and crazy stories are both priceless in their own ways!!