Commentary

When I started this, I figured that if I kept it up for a year I would do it the right way after that: buy/register a domain*, host the site at home, and use a decent editor. (To be fair, though, blogger is perfect for the fickle person like me, who's been fairly terrible at keeping a decent pace of posts in previous attempts.)

I almost said screw it, though, and got a jump start on the wait it out a year and then really invest some time and effort into a decent site deal, after trying to enable comments on this thing tonight. I still don't know how I did it, but apparently I managed to completely revoke any kind of commenting capability on posts right before this one, so that even enabling comments as a whole for the blog still couldn't override it, not unless I go back and manually override it for each post. I was annoyed and I felt unnecessarily stupid and those are two things I never like feeling together.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure comments are enabled now for any new posts and that it won't require any logging in to anything. I am still annoyed enough that I am going to leave the comments moderated for now, because I don't think I am in the frame of mind to handle any spam right now.

Of course, given my grand total of 4 readers, the comments are bound to come pouring in and so it may take me a while to go through them all. I'll try to be fast and have under a week turnaround time. Hah.

*Oh, wait. I do have a domain name registered--well, okay, L. registered it for me, a couple of years ago, I think, through some deal or another, same time he did his, and we did nothing with it (well, I did nothing with it). Huh. I suppose I should see what all I can do with it. It's a very non-anonymous name, though, so I wouldn't use it for this. (I think at the time I had visions of throwing up some stuff about the kid--pics and movies and maybe a few lines about him--from time to time, for friends and family not nearby, apparently forgetting one key point: I don't (can't, more like it) do mommy-blogging. Heh.)

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Who else do you know who could turn a one liner of "I enabled comments on the blog going forward; previous posts will be turned on eventually" into five paragraphs? This is why I always got "unnecessary elaboration" comments on my oral presentations at school and barely made it under the allotted time. On the other hand, it's why I have no problem keeping people awake on middle of the night software upgrade calls, where there is a lot dead air waiting for things to happen after you hit enter...and I get paid for it, too.