Sarge, I do have my hands full with the site and the board--and my work and my family.
I am preparing a links page--accumulating links to other sites that share the same interest as this one--and will be glad to add a link to a chat room if you decide to start one.
If people were interested, we could schedule a realtime chat and meet up in Yahoo! chatrooms or other chatrooms. That way, we could arrange it on the message boards here and then meet up there, and FireShelby wouldn't have to do extra work.