Thanks! I heeded your suggestion and gave the thing an overall facelift. Like Kim Kardashian, always under construction...
The blog script is much more efficient behind the scenes now. Everything is done dynamically in browser memory without leaving the page, including the new search function!
I've added a dynamic list of blog entries that automatically updates itself with no extra indexing required on my part. I just add a Markdown file and increment a number and it all flows into place.
strongly agree