Best wishes!

When I was recently unemployed, I wound up going to a fair number of local meetups via meetup.com -- some were better than others, but most were at least interesting. I think the most resonant social connection that came out of that was the guy with the dog with various vision problems, who turned out to have been an old friend of one of my other local friends, which I learned after retweeting him and accidentally becoming the instrument of their reconnection.