So, I have things up and running.

I used the dev-random2 theme, which, as mentioned before, was in French, so it took a few minutes to go through and translate the different words and phrases to English.

Overall, I really like what I have.

Some things I might add in the future:

• the "last posts" in pelican-sober -- I like how it looks. Maybe I'll try to add this in.
• I like many of the things that are in the elegant theme, so ...
• I would like to add a search that targets the site - this would be useful to me!