I apologize to my readers - both of you - but this page seems to be loading very slowly because the Sitemeter counter is not loading correctly. (Normally it would be right above the Blogger banner on the left). I'm not sure what to do about this. Hopefully it will work itself out. Comments are still working, if anyone has any ideas.

Update: I "rem"ed out the HTML lines for the counter and the page loaded double-quick, so that's obviously the problem, despite what Sitemeter says. I'll try to re-engage the counter again and see what happens.