*grin* Well, the friend count isn't at all indicative of social skills — is it?

I traded my friendships to get a new tribe up and running without waiting for months (or years) to get the first hundred or so members. The Campfire Cafe was — truthfully — started as a part of my therapy during my recovery process after an injury. Before I started the tribe, I had something like 40 "tribe friends." Almost every one was "recruited" with invitations sent one-at-a-time to prospects selected from the members of a number of other tribes.

All to force me to type.

When I began at the end of 2006. I still had very significent neurological deficit in my right hand and arm. and was typing at 5 or so words per minute (down from my previous 140 or so WPM as a writer, not transcriptionist). It's much better, now.

The psychomotor skills exercised by the process of emailing the invitations seem rediculously simple now, but were designed to get me over the hump of some specific difficulties I was having at the time.

And that's part of the answer to your "hmmm."

As for your easier question, I got directions to the scheduling part of your rangers.org website last evening — and scheduled myself for the July 14 training in San Francisco.

BTW — You are welcome to a "virtual" PBR right now, but I bet the actual offer of a REAL Pete's Wicked or Guinness on the playa will be far better.

*grin*