It is odd.
Over the last few years I have had multiple people PM me about getting help with projects.
I tell the come on out and use my tools. Nobody has shown up.
Arroyo and Bperkins01 have been out to my place to help me with my stuff and they live on opposite coasts.
I will definitely fly out to Hawaii if I am invited.
I have been to the East Coast to see BYOACers. I have been to the West Coast.
I have been to Zapcon a couple of times.
Get out and meet people.
You would be surprised how much more you learn and how much more fun it is to share the hobby in person.
I agree. The best part of ZapCon isn’t the games, it’s seeing all you ---daisies---.
The traditional meet up at the Monastery during the early years was the best. Picking up Vigo and Harveybirdman at the airport blasting Uptown Funk (a BYOAC in-joke). Dinner with Ond and his daughter and Jawhn. Tacos with MikeA, Jrok and the AZ crew... the mixing of you guys and the AZ locals is my favorite part of the weekend.
But even before that, we locals in Arizona spend weekends fixing things and repairing things and getting them ready for the show. We teach each other, we help each other out. That camaraderie extends way before and way after the actual show, and it pleases me to no end that people like you Mike, and Vigo, and Opt2Not, and Neph and Jim (both the PBJ and Nexusmtz Jim’s) take the time and spend your hard earned money to come out and play with us. That’s what this hobby should be about to us at this age - reliving memories, and making new ones.
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