Perhaps the veterans on this board know how people can get in touch with each other privately here?
There is the alternate universe that is a social networking site but it is against the TOS to exchange that information on this site.
I can tell you that I live in the same county as you, at the very Northern western most part of it, so I must be very close to you.
Keep reading and studying what has been written in the past and maybe that will help you.
EVAS you should start your own thread IMHO.
PrincessP also in reference to my last post the two people mentioned had very different results from DB'ing but I would classify both of them as being highly successful.