I had a realization while I was driving to work this morning...one of those points where you experience something and think, "This is going to be important later. I need to mark it." Since this web log is my place for recording stuff like that, you (my 5 readers) are about to get an "earful". 
I've also just realized that this warrants two posts. So, I'm going to make what I'm writing now (which is really just the lead-in to this morning's true realization) its own post. So, bonus post!