this one wasn't doing anything important, so I'm going to hijack my own thread!

I started out to read through all of the threads in the Forum in a systematic way (I got about halfway through), so I know that there have always been first-time posters who ventured out upon the dark waters, never to be heard from again, and others who posted twice, then sank with nary a ripple.

It seems to me that, in the month since I began posting, there has been an unusually high number of first-time posters and that several are acting as if they will become regulars.

I hope this is a true perception, because the Forum seems to me to be more energized than it has been in, lo, these long months. Checking the Forum for posting updates is now the first and last thing I do each day (okay, so I have no life), and it's keeping me more entertained than the story postings are!

Now, if only I could figure out what "Deus lo volt!" meant.