I'm Joe. I'm 35, and I live in Green Bay, WI with my wonderful wife and two sons, 6 and 3. I work at a college on staff, and I also teach one class each semester. I began running and working out, as the college has wonderful equipment/facilities for that. That keeps me busy and out of trouble for the most part.

Joes are my only vice, and I have tried my best to limit my spending. It is difficult when there are sales at various websites (or even when stores clearanced stuff off). "I'm buying these for my sons," I say at the checkout. (Yeah, right!!) Well, they do enjoy my hobby as well, and I have duplicate figures from various ill-advised eBay lot purchases that they enjoy. My older son just turns 6 this week, and has been begging to get into the Sigma 6 world. Of all people, my wife hooked him up with Paratrooper Duke. Who knew? She is slowly warming to my hobby, but nowhere near the point of holding planes and helicopters for aerial shots. There are some lucky fellas out there!!

Like Craig, there is a large amount of storage dedicated to her Beanie Babies as well, but she traded up that hobby for scrapbooking. By comparison, her monthly expenditures on scrapbooking dwarf my more selective Joe purchases... I don't mind spending money on hobbies. Each of ours brings joy in its own way. And that is a very good thing.

Like Craig, nice and simple. And I love my family!

Thanks General Scarlett. Those are the nicest words anyone has said to me in quite awhile. I think you're pretty nifty also!!

Hi everyone! This is kinda a bump,I know..........but General Scarlett brought me over from JBL.

My name is Dave,I'm 34 and live in Pueblo West CO........My health has kept me out of the service,but I have an abiding respect and admiration for all our Servicemen and -Women............

I've been collecting Joes since I was 8 years old,but my parents made me give away most of my collection when I was a teenager-however,I think trying to rebuild my collection has increased my appreciation of GI Joe and the wonderful things that are in my life because of Joe!

I'm also a huge anime fan-Macross,Gundam,Votoms,Dirty Pair,Sailor Moon..........and I'll bet you all I have the largest collection of Hasegawa's 1/72 scale Macross Valkyrie Mecha model kits in the U.S!

I also build historical aircraft and tank models,resin Anime girl kits,and starships from Trek.

I play Warhammer 40K ( Imperial Guard & Black Templar Space Marines )plus other wargames............I'm a voracious reader:sci-fi,war,thrillers,history..............comics,magaz ines................I play scenario paintball,my favorite sport is Formula 1 racing.......

I've been enjoying my time on the site! Thanks!

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Thanks Ender! I've met some wonderful people through GI Joe-that's for sure!!

Not sure whether I'm entitled to post considering how little I do here . I'm Dzirhan, I work freelance as both a journalist and consultant in the defence field, with a lot of my work being with Janes, the british defence publishing group. Work has been pretty busy over the last 2 years hence my lack of participation online though I buy a fair bit of joes and 3 3/4 related lines that work with joes. I live in Malaysia in South East Asia and am 36 this year making me on the old side, been involved with joes since 1985. Outside of joes, my interest lies in military history (actually taught the subject at a military college here), pc games (strategy and RTS) along with doing a little cooking. Toylines I collect are all 3 3/4 particularly Chap Mei which is readily available here and has some nice vehicles along with Japanese gaschapon stuff and minature furniture and other stuff that works with joes, I'm hoping that I can clear my work off and take April as a vacation so I can work on some dios and participate more online

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Dzirhan, welcome to the boards!!! And as long as you have an appreciation of G.I. Joe, you're more than welcome here!!!!


Maxtype, I'm so glad to have you here!! I can't wait to hear all your thoughts!!




Welcome to you both!!!!

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Hello all, my name is Don, my friends call me DRey
I'm 29, I live in the SF Bay Area & I have been a joe-a-holic
since I was 7 but I have stopped collecting Joes late last year.

I used to go by the userID: donsbabyboo ~ I swiped my wifes,
now ex-wifes eBayID to buy & sell Joes & just used the ID over
here & over at the Yojoe boards as well where I am a board moderator.
I have since changed my ID to this one that I am using right now.

I hate my current job, but i have gotten a part-time job dabbling in
Real Estate ~ mostly focusing on Commercial/Business properties.

I love the 49ers thru good times AND bad & there have been
a LOT of those the passed few years

The only reason I live & breathe is my 3yr old daughter whom I share
custody of every other week.

Other than that, I live alone and I LOVE IT

Heh heh, I'm with on the "hate my current job" bit, Don! I miss your pics man, but it's good to see you pop in every now and then.

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