Glad to see you.
Thanks very much!
I have to say that I've been really quite surprised (pleasantly, of course) at how warm my reception has been here. I don't have a good sense of my effect on others, including how I come across or whether what I have to say is remotely interesting. This isn't some perverse attempt at humility; I don't think those effects or my writing are *bad*, I just genuinely don't know.