A quick note about comments--a few of you have started to add your 2 cents, which makes us happy (come on people, let's make this interactive! You're our link to the world back home!). Anyway, when you click the "comments" button and a pop-up window comes up, at the bottom of the window is an advertisement for another blog. We have no control over what comes up; it's usually something innocuous, but occasionally is political or otherwise controversial. Please understand that we have no control over the ads that come up, and if they get problematic we would rather stop the comments than be associated with anything offensive (or at least more offensive than what we post on a daily basis)...