Ah, well, I do have an answer now to the email question. According to the "known issues," my ISP is blocking emails from Dreamwidth. Great. They're supposedly "working to fix this" so perhaps that will get sorted out eventually.

It looks like my reading page is working for me now, so I should keep coming by to read. I'm not sure I'm ready to actually move my journal to DW. Most of my friends are still on LJ, including my dear austin_dern, and that keeps me there. I suppose I could start posting simultaneously in both journals so that my friends who have moved here could still keep up with my mundane goings-on. Hm.