Well this is annoying

I haven't been posting for a long time, for various reasons. My daughter's death, a new computer, the loss of some software. I finally try to get back to it and back post the columns I have omitted until now, and what do you know, but Blogger doesn't allow back-dating anymore. Or at least, if they do, there's a new trick to it. I tried everything I could think of to back-date that last one to the publishing date, but it just keeps giving today's date. So, I'll have to put the publishing date in manually.