Happy 2 K, Muppetfan! Welcome to the club!
As for talking about stupid first few posts, when I happen to stumble into a thread that I posted in early on, I just wanna go back and give myself a good slap. Some of my early posts were just...strange, to put it lightly. I think that I was trying to be a major part of the community as a newbie, and it wasn't until I stepped back a little and just went with the flow that I started getting more comfortable posting.
I also realized something: when I first started coming here, I had even mentioned how I always write responses, then decide that for some reason they were no good, and just scrap them. Yet now I only find myself doing that every once in a blue moon. I guess I just have gotten more comfortable knowing what and what not to say.