Having turned the lights back on, I need to dust around the blogroll to the right, and clean up or toss some links, and add a few new ones.
Seems some folks also gave up (some permanently, apparently). I gave it up for a while when my comments plug-in got flaky (I think they went out of business or re-wrote something that didn't work with my template here). Since I had sort of jury-rigged this template, I didn't want to throw it out and start from scratch, because it would have messed up older posts. So, first I had to find out how to unplug the plug-in (finally found that), and then find out how to get Blogger comments into a creaky old template.
Well, so far, it seems to be running. "She's humming like a turbine jet" (well, maybe not that good).