Sherry, when I received the email notification that you had commented on my blog, the address line of the sender (you) was this: sherryocala [noreply-comment@blogger.com] You get email replies to your comments from me because I already have your email address. I just get it from my contacts folder. When setting up your Blogger profile, you have to actively check the "show email address" option, otherwise your email is hidden. Many folks do this on purpose, thinking that providing their email will be a wide-open door to Spam City. My email is available on my blog, and here on GW, and I can't say that I have noticed any increase in spam because of it. It's all in the way that I blog. I skip around reading blogs ... many of which come from sidebar blog lists of other blogs I enjoy ... and I lose track of where I've been. If a blogger uses the comment section for a reply, chances are that I will never see it. (You can subscribe to comment replies on blogger blogs ... I did that once on a very popular blog, and my inbox was inundated with everyone's replies.) I think of personal comment replies as Thank You notes ... it's just what I do, and I feel bad when I can't send a personal reply. Just this morning, I had two lovely comments from folks that I couldn't contact personally. I commented on the blog, and I hope they see it. Other readers got personal replies, with our dear Professor Roush receiving a continuation to a comment conversation that started between the two of us on his blog ... which is FABULOUS, BTW.

Ah--mystery solved. Josh Groban sang the National Anthem just before the game, not at half-time. Whew! I thought I was losing my mind. Even called my sis and BIL who are big college football fans to confirm I wasn't nutso ;-) I tried googling BCS championship half-time show and the first one I clicked on warned me of a virus and not to open it so I gave up on that one.

I saw the link in someone's post and then bookmarked it on my desktop. I haven't been able to find an obvious link to it from this forum. Here is a link that might be useful: Finished Kitchens Blog

Another tip on Google Reader, once you are in reader, on the bottom left side of your screen there is the option to "manage subscriptions" When you click on that you can make folders to sort blogs if, like me, you have way too many to ever read at once. Example, I'm a writer so I have folders for poets, children's authors, general writing and process. Then I have a folder for decoration and one for tech. This helps me not have to wade through hundreds of blog posts when I only want to look at the latest in a certain category. You can also "tag" a post after you read it with certain keywords. So you can tag a post "French Country" or "green walls" or whatever to link various posts together.