Comments enabled.

A bit of housekeeping:

Susan asked me why I hadn't enabled comments. In fact, I thought I had, but that's only because I'm unfamiliar with the Blogger software, which uses a default setting by which only users with Blogger accounts have commenting privileges. What I needed to do (as I've since learned) was to enable Anonymous commenting, so you don't need credentials to leave a comment. So I just did.

Now, some ground rules. People are free to leave any on-topic comments they like. I will delete any commercial spam (which isn't written by real people anyway, but rather by automated software that goes looking for unmoderated blogs with commenting enabled).

I will also delete any use of last names -- yours, mine, or ours. So please, no last names. If it's possible for me to edit a comment to remove identifiable material in lieu of rejecting the comment, I will, but I can't promise that the software will allow this, so please make my job easier.

Also, please don't feel obligated to leave a comment just because you can. We have already felt very cared for in all of this, and I don't want people to feel like the absence of a shout-out means you've stopped caring, because we know that's not true.