Thanks Rivertorch! You have been most inspirational. I hope to get better at all this. If you noticed, at the page for Virginia, I made some sarcastic comments at the talk page to someone who I thought was thinking the page was his private territory. But then I apologized, on account of reading that sarcasm is a transgression. After my first contribution, someone deleted my entire paragraph, discounting my addition as "fluff". So I didn't know that sarcasm was frowned upon; I thought it was normal!