Dave, great story, great analysis of trying to explain Mudcat to the unwashed masses. Pam didn't make it to our party :( --and I was too pooped to go to the Starry Plough. See you Thursday--or are you on duty on Thursdays this week? Sonja is coming, I guess for sure; she, her boyfriend, and her parents, Wolfgang and Dorle, were at our party--her parents dancing during our early California waltz (Dona Dona), and after most of the guests had left, Dorle came and sang German folksongs with me on five-string (I don't know the words but the tunes are easy: "Du, Du, Liebst Mir im Hertzen," "Muss i Den," "Lili Marlene," "Ach Du Lieber Augustine," "Auf Wiedersehen"). --seed