I wish I lived closer to you. Then I’d also live significantly closer to both @Cactusflower & @Uftaki
But I’m on the opposite end of the country, all by my lonesome.
I do wish local meetups were more common. I'm not on the west coast but all of the conventions I can recall in that area have a G4 skew. It would be nice to see more small-scale meetups and dinners pop up again.