Thing 1: Blogging - Well this first lesson turned out to be a challenge for me.  I thought I set up the blog, but it was just my gmail profile.  I then did set-up my blog, but not sure how I got there :)  I then had to figure out how to get the URL name.  Then I couldn't get back in as the owner.  I think I have it now.  So far the first night I've learned many things about blogs - the first being it wasn't as easy as I thought, but I stuck with it.