By the way

Today is going to be a kind of catch-up day, when I try to post a string of things I should have posted sooner and want to get out before they're too old to matter. So some of these items may be from several days ago.

This is what happens when you are stuck with dial-up and it takes flaming forever to get to sites to get the info you want. (If there's anyone who'd like to help change that.... No, I didn't think so.)