Apologies to my commenters (on behalf of TypePad)

So if I hadn't sent an email to a business acquaintance last night thanking him for introducing me to a new friend, I might have sunk into a deep funk, thinking no one wanted to comment on my blog any more. But, alas, he wanted to know whether I'd seen his "parsnip" comment. No, no parsnip commentary had come my way. It appears that TypePad's email notification process is broken, at least as concerns me, thus, all my faithful commenters are being ignored unless I make the effort to check the TypePad site itself, not on my list of 85 most important things to do each day. So I just checked and you're all posted and I thank you for your patience (one person waited five days to be posted!). Onward - and, uh, TypePad, what ails thee?