I have been assimilated
I've finally given in and given up on my blog code. It was just too much work, and didn't work well enough. So, now I'm using Blogger, like the rest of the world.
One of the reasons I didn't do that straight off was because I wanted to use my website to host. Now I can do that (or probably more accurately, "now I've figured out how to do that"). Another reason was that I wanted to use my own website "template," and I think I've figured out how to do that too.
So there was really nothing stopping me from using Google's software. Except, of course, my reluctance to give up on many, many hours of code. So, let's see how it works.