Thing #1: Whew!

Imagine my surprise while in the midst of creating my first ever blog; I realized that I had named it "squitl". This is the word that I was prompted to type to prove that a real human being was creating the blog.  Fortunately, I was able to rename the blog as I had worked very hard to come up with a snappy name.  Unfortunately, all the snappy names were taken so I came up with this one.