With being back to work now, I have a lot more on my plate that I want to do than I know what to do with. I’m going to have to cut back on something and I’ve decided that — at least in the near term — I’m going to be doing less commenting on blogs than I had been doing. I will still be dropping in and reading posts of my blog-friends, but unless I really have something that I want to say, I probably won’t comment. I’ll just be there on occasion “lurking” without commenting.

On a lot of the blogs that are in my reader, I won’t even be doing that. Blogs like John Chow’s and Shoemoney’s will get a “mark all posts as read,” and I’ll move on to a blog of someone that I read and comment on.

I did consider stopping one of my blogs, but the one I was thinking about is used by a few folks that are doing home schooling so I decided to continue it, at least for the foreseeable future.

During the month that I was off, I didn’t get much done that I had hoped to do. I was sick with the flu followed by a nagging cold that is only now completely out of my system — I think. Our youngest daughter’s father-in-law had a heart-attack and she, her husband and our grandkids made a trip to Arkansas because of it. Our daughter and grandkids ended up spending several days with us. It was a bit of a disruption, but one that I’ll take any time. Strange weather has also caused issues as did things like income taxes. I didn’t spend as much time online as I usually do, didn’t do as many posts.