If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to that is so much more important to me than making money (and we all know you’ve been wondering), I’ve been up to my eyeballs in personal issues and angst.  There really isn’t anything else that would keep me away, after all.

This marks the first full week that my wife is deployed overseas.  The weeks leading up to, and the week after this event have kept me very occupied in the world of personal matters.  It’s a hard life that we live at times.  Separations make it harder.

So now I have to get myself back into the world of work.  At the same time, I’m a full time father, so I’ve had to juggle schedules to get myself planted back in front of my monitor, but hopefully I’ve got that settled now and can return to the task at hand.

I need the work, it keeps me sane.

And you can expect an awful lot of it from me over the next Fifteen months.  Aside from being a father, missing my wife terribly and running a house, it’s all I’ve got to keep me moving.  At the moment I consider it a dear friend that I plan to embrace.  Working means less time for feeling lonely or powerless.  At least until late at night.  Then it’s just me, a small dog and a picture of my wife on a  nightstand.

But that’s a tale for a different venue.

Well, the 30 days project hit a wall because of two very different but equally distracting issues in my “every day life”. First, CbsoP was accepted into a blog advertising network, which is driving the numbers higher than I could have managed on my own, therefore invalidating those statistics. (It’s a good thing, just bad for the test I was performing…) the second issue started when the little one in the house decided that he had to cut four teeth at the same time. For anyone with children, you’ll realize that almost all of my time has been spent tending to his needs, not my own.

I will restart that project shortly using different blogs as the benchmark and hopefully this time I’ll get through the whole process without a pause.

In the meantime, I’ve completed my first WordPress plugin, which will be posted here later in the day. While it’s not the world’s most useful plugin, it is functional, and I think there is a subset of the blogging world that may gain something from it. Most specifically those people using TTFTitles by John Leavitt, as this plugin is strictly a companion to his own that adds some functionality to the blogroll (at this point. It will probably gain a lot more functionality before I’m done.).

There will be other plugins and theme advice over the next few days, as I’ve been very busy getting a new custom theme together for a friend, and have been doing a lot of work on a theme upgrade for my cooking blog as well, which includes updates toa few other plugins.

Stay tuned kids! I’ll be back very shortly with more, now that My son is a little more like “Normal”