The Old Man Speaks...an invitation and an observation

Gentle Readers, - First, comments to our various post are not only welcome, but encouraged. - Second, I noticed that my somewhat out of order late posting has caused some of the posts to be, well, out of order. If you want to ensure that you have "seen it all" you may want to do a quick scroll down (not that any post you might have missed could possibly be earth-shattering, since there has yet to be any earth-shattering posts). Thats all...more later...