Yes this is a heck of a community and it is very cool that your friend (that left such an impression you named the account after them) got the word your way! Welcome aboard @ayoung87! I like to direct people who just started up on steemit to visit my friends @greetersguild, leave a link to this post so that you can get more recognized right away get upvoted and start talking with hoards of interesting and very kind people. I do a lot of work on here to help speed up the learning curve on here so feel free to ask questions as needed, I'm sure there may be a few that pop up today as well as the coming days! Enjoy the platform we are glad to have you as a member!