Wendell,
It was a real pleasure to be able to spend some time with you, as well as others that I met at ACUC. Thank you for taking the time to indulge a recovering engineer.
What was surprising and interesting was the amount of input and suggestions that I received about how my crew and I can be of service to the AC community.
To those in the West, I've heard interest from several individuals about getting together informally in the next few months for a meetup. I spend time in both SoCal and the Lake Tahoe area, so chime in if you have an opinion.