Rossabo, you live in SoCal? What's it like? I always wanted to move there one day.
Funny thing is, the Animorphs live in SoCal, too.
Well, the weather is excellent if you live by the beaches/city (although terribly hot in the valley where I live). We don't really have forests like they had in the books, which leads me to believe that the city was more like a Northern/Mid California city, such as Santa Cruz.
But anyways, the LA empire is ridiculously huge. There are a lot of good business opportunities here, but unfortunately, it is generally expensive to live here. I like the Northern Californian personalities more than the Southern Californian personalities, because NorCalifornians have a more easygoing hippie/wine connoisseur mentality than the serious business/extremely aspiring mentality of SoCalifornians.
Also, we have the movie industry here in LA. I have been working as an extra for TV shows, and it is fun to go to the movie studios and see all of the sets that your favorite movies were shot in.
Anyways, regarding K.A. visiting the forum again, I highly doubt it. It seems like Grant is busy writing his book, and Katherine is busy raising her kids. I guess we have to see things from their perspective. They're busy, and while I'm sure they would like to connect with their fans more, unless we have really interesting questions to ask them, they have more important matters to attend to. Unfortunately, it seemed as though a lot of the questions we were asking when they were actively visiting the forums were very trivial and somewhat unimportant, and they certainly spent a decent amount of time responding to the questions.
I highly doubt they will visit the forums again. What we should do, is start a thread where everybody raises questions to ask them. From these questions, Ellimist would narrow them down to the best questions, compile them in an email, and send it to K.A. That way, she wouldn't need to be making a weekly commitment, and wouldn't need to be answering trite questions.