My first Do was less than a year after I joined FT. I lurked a month or two and then starting to read everything. I didn't really fully think through the whole DO thing because, I remember driving up he the restaurant thinking what the..... Legal Alien and Sweet Willie hosted it and I got up early and hung in the lot for a bit. And yes, explaining you are looking for your group whom you don't know what a single one looks like is weird. The other weird thing was when one of my friends asked me to go to dinner that same evening and I had to explain to him that I was going to a restaurant I had never been to to meet people I had never met.
That was early June and I will be at the 3F one tomorrow in Munster after also making a Sox do in July. I also have the the Chicago seminars coming up and the Tampa FTU later this month
Now that I have typed all this out, and have read it aloud to check for typo's....I am starting to think I have an addiction.