Well, we had 8 people at the munch on Saturday, which I consider a great turnout! Unfortunately I couldn't hang out and talk for long, because I had to get home.

Lynnette wants to start another monthly munch on the first Saturday of every month, in Muncie. Her theory is that she'll get more people from the north part of the state who can't come to the Indianapolis one. She also wanted me to move my munch back to Bloomington for the winter months, so people from the south part of the state wouldn't have to drive in the winter. She thinks it's going to be a rough winter.

But I don't want to go whipsawing my munch around. It's meant to be a baseline, a constant bass line that underscores the social music, if you will. I really enjoyed the two events we've had at Lynnette's house, but the one part I didn't like is the fact that they took place on munch weekends, so we had to effectively cancel the munch for those months. There are supposed to be parties in addition to the munch. Maybe I'm just being curmuncheony. 8:-) But I'm trying to build up momentum here, and constantly changing where or when the munch is isn't going to allow it to grow. It's kind of like TV network executives moving a show around so that it's never on the same night two weeks in a row, so nobody watches it because nobody can find it.

One of the people who came to the munch said he's tried the new Abriform X-Plus, and they're not that bad. They're still pretty thick, he said, but they've removed the absorbent material from the sides of the front part. He didn't have one with him to show me, unfortunately. It sounds as if they're not as good as they used to be, but they're not bad.