Well, today was the luncheon I had talked about earlier.  I think it went really well.  I made some face-to-face contact with several people I knew from the phone.  They were all quite kind and supportive of my job search efforts.  In fact, a couple of them were from places where I had already applied for jobs.  There was one person, in particular, from a really good job place who I wanted to talk to, but he left early.   GRRRR!  Oh well, I’ll get my chance later, and the meeting will give me a nice opening for that first face-to-face conversation.