ahhhh, see I have lots to learn too! and am loving it!
I spend all my time doing daft things like smelling my hive and listening to it, then I miss all the tech stuff! oh well never mind, I am not in it for the honey-money. I just love having my 'pet' bees as you have read- they are my girls!
so long as they are happy, healthy and NOT swarming all over the place (annoying people) I don't mind if the learning is a long job.
Honey would be nice but it's not about selling jars and jars of it! Nice to give some away to friends though