Hi Diane,
Amusement is our target, thank you for the compliment. ]'-)
Regards an off-camera flash setup ... I went through some trouble to obtain a 3.5m Olympus/Panasonic dedicated flash cable so I can operate the FL36 or FL50 off-camera in dedicated mode. (I realized afterwards that I could also have bought a similar, more easily obtained cable for Canon flash units ... the contacts are identical although the fit isn't quite as good.) So if you only need one off-camera flash, that's a good option.
More often, however, I use non-dedicated flash units with either optical or RF triggers. The Cactus V4 triggers are to be avoided if you're using Canon 5D II or Panasonic G system cameras, they cause interference, but I have it on good authority that the Impact triggers sold by B&H Photo do not cause interference and are more robust anyway. You can buy a kit with both transmitter and receiver ($135) as well as receivers ($85), allowing you to put together as many flash units as you want with RF connection as long as you are comfortable with setting them up for exposure manually.
Relatively minor expense to outfit a three-flash with RF trigger system this way. "Relatively" being the operative word to use in rationalization... ;-)