HEY, NEWBIES...THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!
(Introduction: I was browsing the blogs & this came up under "other blogs". A blast from the past, as it were.Anyway, as there are a quite a few recent 'Newbies' (in fact, since this was first put up, a number of newbies have become oldies
) and undoubtedly there are more shy viewers 
...AND, with the changes CS has recently introduced, making one comment on this is easier than coming up with a whole new blog...I'm gonna make that comment!
)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
....Looking at the stats for several blogs, I've noticed a great number of "Views" relative to "Comments".
Being a curious type, I began wondering why that is so.
Thinking back, I was on CS several months before I even DISCOVERED the blogs.
(Thanks to the suggestions of a couple very thoughtful people...
who also gave me pointers - and encouragement - for offering comments.
You know who you are.
)Even with that encouragement, it was some time before I haltingly
& shyly offered my first one or two comments 
Anyway, I suspect many(!) of those "Views" are folks just needing a gentle nudge to join the CS Blog Family.
Well, newbies - ya just ran out of excuses - cuz...
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!
Hop in!
Let us get to know you!
Don't worry that you'll make a fool of yourself!
...What the hell...there'll be quite a few new faces here
...
& they won't know any more about this than YOU do!
So...even if you DO make a complete @ss of yourself...
no one's gonna be savvy enough to know it anyway!
You just can't GET a better deal than THAT!!
Besides...
Some bloggers ROUTINELY make fools of ourselves!
...er...uhhh...I mean THEMselves, of course! 
Ain't no big whoop!...
You get used to it!...
It actually gets EASIER the more you do it!
Sooo...Here's a big WELCOME TO THE BLOGS...
to all you Bloggers-To-Be!
JUST RECEIVED THIS!
...CS might pony up a dandy set of steak knives for the first five people to offer their First-Time-Ever-Comment on THIS blog!
