Hi Chris. I can empathize with your lack of computer lingo, I am in the same boat but will figure it out as I'm sure you will too. Remember..."that wall is far harder than your head" no matter how tempting:)
Emily

Oh! I forgot to add, You need to pay for the repair to fix the crack you made in the wall. Oh maybe that was me. I tell you what I'll go you halves

Didn't you see my head beside yours.I will give you an example. In a job that I had I was looking after a number of drivers and a lot of them mature. We went from hand written manifests to computer manifesting. They were all going to leave. I wrote down every key stroke every key to press when something came up on the screen. I had them laminated and each driver received a copy. No one left. The greatest moment was that after five weeks my oldest driver came to me and said" I did it without the sheet" Iam no great computer person and I need those sort of sheets on a constant basis. The other day i needed to know how to copy a screen page and I needed it in DERRR. WA supplied the answer. You have to be very specific when you ask a question and how you want it answered. You are not alone Chris. My steps on my website are very small. It will take me 3-4 days just to sort out an Email address. If you have a problem just message me direct or MS Debbie she seems pretty good at the website stuff. We are here to help so Small steps and don't worry about what other people are doing.

Aha! We meet at last. We are the confounded by computer geekery, computer speak or computer jargon. eep code....what is that?

Anyway, Larry had wanted to know what is the difference between a
keyword, tag and a slug.

Loes sent to Larry a Codex or Glossary by wordpress which I found to be useful. I'm wondering whether this could help towards solving the computer geekery. Here it is:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Post_Slug

Please don't bang your head against the wall anymore Chris...I tried that and it is most painful.
with love and blessings, Shirley

I don't deal with namecheap, my registrar of choice is GoDaddy. I never encounered any problems.

This happens.

We all go through stuff like this, all the time, so don't get discouraged and enjoy the trauma

You will get it right I am sure.
Ken

An EPP code is used when transferring a domain registration from one registrar to another one. Providing the code from your current registrar to the new registrar validates your ownership of the domain name.

Since your http://chrislakinauthor.wordpress.com site is a subdomain of http://wordpress.com (much like our siterubix sites are subdomains of http://siterubix.com), you don't own the domain registration for that domain.

To host your http://chrislakinauthor.me site at WA, you'll need to point the DNS settings (at namecheap) for the site to the WA servers.

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Here's a link to some training on moving wordpress sites:
Moving Wordpress Site from one Host to Another

I dont know much about computer jargon either so I wont be much of help here but I do hope that somebody from the WA will give you a helping hand. Just stay positive and patient. :)