Heck yeah! Wouldn't trade it for anything. Sleeping on the ground and eating from dumpsters, i feel, made me a better person.
You doing the hive open mic? I still haven't jumped in yet but open mics are one of my favorite things to go see live and i love it here too.
I haven't yet. I've been spreading myself too thin between a bunch of different projects lately. I hope that in about a month things will change though.