Administrative note:

Haloscan, which provides my Comments feature, seems to be having some trouble. I lost my comments from a March post, a June post, and a July post so far, and I may be missing more that I haven't noticed yet. Their tech support assures me they will get those Comments back, but if you were trying to discuss something on one of them you might have to wait a couple days.

I would apologize for the inconveniece, but this is a free site...you get what you pay for.