Even though I have been on the internet daily and done plenty of geeky digital things over the past month, my blog hasn’t had a new post to display for a while and it feels like I haven’t done anything at all!

For me, less blog activity = more busy life so when things need my full attention, it’s my blog that is the first to suffer. There was a a time when I would postpone real life events because I had a regular post spot to write or I’d get itchy feet to get home when I was out and knew I had lots of comments to respond to.

The past few months however, has given Life the opportunity to show me that the word “important” has a fluid meaning. Things that were, are no longer and things that weren’t are suddenly more important than anything else …until they’re no longer important any more and I can get back ‘on track’.

Right now, there are some pretty big important things to get done. It may involve moving, it may involve a massive change of career and more but for sure, IT’S VERY IMPORTANT I GET THEM DONE!!

but enough of my moaning about stuff that can’t be changed…running parallel to all these important things is something else that has consumed my days and nights over the past year, the Commentluv site and plugin.

Now, this would normally have been one of those “it’s important, oh wait, now this is more important” times but I took all the pressure off by going to a professional team. I said “I want this” and they said “that’ll be xxx.xx $ please” so I said “yes!” and now all the pressure is off me because I have paid a deposit on a completely new site which will be running on a new platform and have so many wanted and useful features that you’ll be blown away!!
The backend script for CommentLuv is also being rewritten with a view to providing much more functionality and also allow for a much better stats system.

The work is due to start in February and in the mean time I will be looking for people to take on staff positions. There will be a variety of positions available as the time comes to launch the site so stay tuned to the newsletter (due to start again soon) and this site for how to apply.

I’m already arranging the first paid writer and hope to get a lot more in the coming year which had the effect of taking a huge amount of pressure off my shoulders while I sort out the things with people who don’t understand what blogs are (you know, the real life people out there in real life). I’m still around and I’m still coding when I can, the rest of my digital life will return to normal when my analogue life finds it’s feet!

follow me on twitter to get my updates, I’m always on that in one way or another (yey blackberry storm!)

I WANT to be a robot. To think is hard for me, I’d rather do what people tell me. It’s easier that way, ABC is always ABC, I don’t need to think to get that right. It’s the same as doing my job, if I just do what the job requires then I don’t have to think! that’s why I want a system for making money online. I want an ebook that tells me exactly what to do and I want to pay a particular price of 97USD for it. I wont need to read it, I’ll just buy it and leave it on my pc.

I know I’m lazy and complacent. I just don’t want to think outside the box like the big earners are telling me to. It’s nice and warm in here and I know exactly how many steps it takes to get from one end to the other. It’s easy. Put in an easy chair, make a window and I could spend my whole life ‘in the box’ and be perfectly content.

I wont be alone! There are millions of others like me, happy to live out their whole lives within their four corners without needing to venture outside. It’s cold outside the box.

New type of food? no way! I know how this stuff tastes.
Who am I voting for? well, the guy I voted for last time of course!
It’s a long drive to work but I don’t want to go to the trouble of moving house and I wouldn’t even dare thinking about getting a new job, OMG that would require me to go outside my comfort zone. I’d have to learn new skills, and worse than that…

I’D HAVE TO GET TO KNOW NEW PEOPLE!!! I wouldn’t be able to go through that whole process of deciding if someone is good or not, are they a bully? do they smell? will they think I’m cool?

It’s much better staying where I am, the journey to and fro is a long one and there’s a guy that bullies me but at least I can handle that, if I moved I might end up with a bigger bully to deal with…A few hours a day in my car wont hurt me, I can daydream all I want.

Yep, definitely better not doing anything. I’ll keep moaning about the journey and sucky pay for a while longer. My wife can handle it, she doesn’t need anything more. She doesn’t work, she should be OK with what we’ve got. I mean, it’s not as if she is the one going to work 40 hours a week (ok, so with the journey time it’s more like 70).

Screw the whole residual, multiple stream income thing. I don’t need it. I’ve got security in my job along with the other 200 people that sit in cubicles.

Yep, I’m fine.

.. a parody response to Stephans’ article entitled “burning down the house“