He sounds GORGEOUS! Maybe you'll be able to get a true color picture of him up soon.
Me, I'd love to have a get-together at a not-too-expensive hotel or even restaurant in Sacramento. It's about a 2-hour drive for me, and also for those in the Bay Area. One COULD drive there for a meeting and back the same day. But I don't know about you, because I don't know how long it would take you to get there, and you're CENTRAL!! :-)
The goal of living into my 80's is because my health is good for now -- I'm turning 65 in March, and all my joints work, and my organs work (except those damn beta cells), and my brain freezes (OK, farts) aren't significant. When a word won't come at the moment, I WILL remember it later, and when I forget what I went into a room for, I know I will remember it if I go back to the place where the thought occurred to me.
So, while a terminal illness COULD sneak up on me, and I don't deny the reality, why NOT plan for a future? Better to plan and not have it happen, than NOT plan, and then not know what to do with myself, LOL!!