You know, you cued me to go look at my join date again, and holy crap, i didn't realize i've been on here for almost 20 years...This is a great thread. what's crazy, speaking as a second wave OG, is that folks that joined during Covid are pretty old school established members here.
And if I recall... you came up from Merced or Medera to attend one of Connie's / BARF Libmo meets, around 2008 or so.