Hi Rick!
First of all great job on writing all those articles, it must have been a lot of hard work :-)
I don't think you should make fictious dates, but instead publish them with a day or two inbetween. Works great.
About comments, you could just turn the option off for now, until you get about 50 RSS subscribers. Or just leave them open, it's a personal choice. Maybe get a friend or family to write a comment.
The thing you should look for is flexibilyty. CAN you change the template so you have your ads / adsense / whatever.
All from me, hope it helped a little.
Alexander
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