With The Aid of Time Travel... My 3rd Anniversary Blog Post!

I made it to 3 years on this blog! Who hoo! OK. Actually, my bloggiversary was OCTOBER 11th. But things have been SO DARN HECTIC around here that it was impossible to put together the required mega-post in time. SO... with the aid of internet "time-travel" technology (back-dating posts), I have popped the actual post into the proper slot where it belongs (a month ago - sheesh!). Filled with