Mike,
I have no clue as to what might be out there in the way of chat rooms or local get togethers. . I just signed on here 3-4 days ago myself, so no, I have not so much as talked to another person who was there. Mom pulled an oh shit, but "if you need to dig around in this , I will support it." Dad thought it was over the top to refer to ourselves as survivors. HELLO >>>his idea of surviving is making money when everybody else is losing their(our) ass in this stock market.
Maybe some of these other people will chime in with some info. Yahoo has some kinda board, but I guess you need cookies, java, a/X and all the other MicroSquish shit enabled to make it work. If you dont use aol, go to your favorite search engine and type in AIM in " " marks. You will have to download it(AIM) and install it, enabling you to IM without AOHell service. Still cool? Hope so . Then when you click AIM logo on board, or type my handle (psychodaddy001), if I am on, say hi.
BTW, I really downed out on the whole thing with straight for a few days, but today i fished with my kids , swam out in the middle of Tampa Bay with them and was a touch nicer than usual to them. We must keep in touch, as you said, with what we have done in spite of straight. Or because of it. I married a woman with a mean streak worse than Miller Newton, and a lets be 17 forever party attitude. Just shoot me. But then I look at those kids...WOW, she is still, despite it all, the only person who could've given those particular kids to me. I think straight did effect our core personal wiring with long term exposure to its toxins. It also made me tougher, smarter,and a whole lot harder to BS. These have been good things in this life.
Congrats on a cool sounding career with a family. You have an artists job....very luckey. My sons draw and create work in various media, where I break crayons if I try to draw. Do you sell your work online?
Bill