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Congratulations on your beautiful new home! An old Finnish custom is to bring salt and bread on one’s first visit to wish blessings and good luck!
I must admit though that I will miss the old one for a little while though – as your signature. In shosrt time the new home will take on the character of its owner too.
Thanks, Marja-Leena! Good Finnish rye bread is one of my favorite things.
I don’t like change much myself, but in less than a day I’ve already become fairly comfortable with this design.
Yes, it looks cool and suave and sober, Dave. Blessings upon your new home.
Thank you, Natalie. Sober? Yes, I guess that’s so. And perhaps i went with that out of some instinct that my own lack of sobriety(as in the above poem) would be more effective if more greatly in contrast with its surroundings.
>The allure of going open source, with WordPress,
> simply became too great to resist.
welcome to the wordpress family!! i love it! open source, the only way to go!
Hey, thanks, John! I hadn’t noticed before that “My Zen Life” was a WordPress blog. Cool.