O.k. I decided to take some advice from 686f646c (as cautioned above), and I moved 9 BTC from BTC e to a Blockchain.info wallet. It took me nearly a week to accomplish this BTC movement b/c there were technical SNAFUs with my e-mail confirmations to BTC e. I thought that I had confirmed with BTC e via e-mail, and then after three days, my BTC were still in the transfer section of the BTC e fund. Thereafter, I submitted a ticket and got some weird-ass quasi non-responsive e-mails from BTC e support, which made me suspect that the BTC e support English skills are NOT too good.
I then presented my issue in the BTC e troll box, and a couple responders reminded me to make sure that I adequately went through the e-mail confirmation process, which assisted me to identify the problem was that I had NOT properly confirmed.
Anyhow, now I am fixed, and I have removed 9 BTC from BTC e, and put those 9 BTC into a blockchain wallet.... which also caused me concern, yesterday, when blockchain.info was down for quite a long time (more than 10 hours?)
Don't forget to offline some.
I have NOT gotten that far in my bitcoin storage experiment, yet.
So, currently, I have coins distributed in Localbitcoins, BTC e, Coinbase and Blockchain. I am working on traveling, so I remain a little bit worried about the practicality and utility of off-line storage. But, I realize that, at some point, I will likely need to practice with off line storage.
Surely, I am looking forward to someday solutions for these kinds of matters, including somehow making it easier to safekeep all my BTC in case anything were to happen to me, then I would be able to pass BTC to my intended heirs rather than donating them to the bitcoin network.