A genuine thank you, and the news!

I really can't thank you all enough for all the encouraging words and reassurance in your comments on my last post. It's pretty inspiring to be told, "Write about whatever you want and we'll enjoy it." It's unlikely that I'll take up trigonometry or the mechanics of nuclear fission as my next obsession, so you can feel reassured about that, but you've given me some ideas about directions I might…