Thank y’all so much for your thoughts and prayers as my wife and I navigated through this challenging time.

Things went remarkably well through it all.

Now I’m working at getting my bearings and digging out from under a week of missed work.

I’ll be up and running shortly. Then we’ll get back to the blog tour.

Thanks again.

Enjoy!

I will have to delay my part in the High Calling Blog Tour.

We received a call this afternoon to tell us that Gorgeous’ father passed away.

We are flying out to Wisconsin on the first flight out. I’ll finish the tour after I return.

Thanks so much for your understanding.

Thought you might want to know that I’ll be writing over here again soon.

Update: I changed the code per Scott’s suggestion in the comments below. Now the search box actually works. Oops!

Hey guys! I’ve added a new little feature to CREEations that I thought might be helpful for some folks.

Over in the right side bar is a little search box where you can search eBible.com to see what the Bible has to say about stuff without having to go off to some other site. And it’s a good double check for me!

Here’s what it looks like.

Enter a verse or keywords
(John 3:16, love, living water)

Enjoy!

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Yesterday I received an award in the mail from Tom Vander Well over at QAQnA. Tom invited me to join his Mug Club and I gratefully accepted. Looking through the club I see that Tom has put me in very prestigious company!

Tom even sent me a very beautiful gold plated travel mug which, as of this morning, will officially replace my old Starbucks travel mug as the ubiquitous appendage on my wanderings.

I actually nearly met Tom when I was up in Chicago this summer. We were both in town at the same time, me for business. If I remember correctly, Tom was visiting family. Unfortunately our schedules did not work out. Ah, well.

But I do find it interesting how the blogging world seems to revolve around Chicago, at least in my case. Hmmm…

Thanks Tom, for the honor. Yours is an incredibly classy major award (unlike the major award the dad received in A Christmas Story). I’m sure to use it until I wear it out.

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UPDATE: Apparently the spam problem wasn’t on my end at all. The program I use to get handle on it (Askimet) experienced down time. It happened to coincide with my updating to a newer version of WordPress. Go figure.

ProBlogger and BloggingPro both wrote about the problem this morning. I’m glad I wasn’t dealing with their traffic levels yet, eh? Scores of spam comments are relatively manageable compared to thousands!

Please bear with me. I’ve been having some technical issues over the last couple of days.

Part of my problem has been a spam attack here at CREEations. I normally get scores of spam comments every day here. I have a good safeguard that has been shutting them out cold.

Until a couple days ago, that is.

They were all getting through like I had no protection at all. It was disconcerting.

At first I thought somehow the comment from Dot a couple days back might have something to do with it and I even considered deleting the comment finally to see if it would help.

But I think the problem had more to do with the fact that I just upgraded to the new version of WordPress, which is the core software which runs everything here at CREEations, at about the same time.

Somehow with the upgrade my anti-spam thingy forgot to come back online.

It took a while, but fortunately I think I resolved that issue finally. In the mean time I was frantically checking in ever couple of hours to delete the dozen or so viagra ads and such that were flooding my comments sections.

Oh, and I have been working to format an add-on Library function over at SuccessCREEations, so this weekend was busy behind the scenes. The Library is close to being ready to go live. Just a little more tweaking…

Hope you have a wonderful day today.

Enjoy!

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Well we are finally getting situated in our new home. There is even more to do than I thought.

WordPress has plugins and widgets and all kinds of other groovy things to make the whole blog better.

The challenge is that there is so much to learn that I find I get distracted way too easily! I’ll start out to change one thing, and as I try to figure out how to do it I see a dozen other things that I can change while I’m at it. Many of the things that will be simple and obvious to me down the road take forever right now.

Of course I was a kid that would take 20 minutes to look up a word in the dictionary because I’d see a whole bunch of other interesting words that I didn’t know yet. I’m pretty sure that’s not normal…

But we are making progress and will continue to tweak and modify as we go.

The plan is to get back to a normal posting schedule by tomorrow.

Please feel free to drop in a comment with your opinions on how things are going at this point.

Enjoy!

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Well we’re off and running on our new platform this morning. I’ve still got a ton of stuff to do.

How do I access that pesky left sidebar of this 3K2 template to change it, anyway?

Thanks for your patience in the move. Hopefully by tomorrow I will have figured out the sidebar issue and be able to get back to regular posting.

Enjoy!

{ahem.}

LADIEEEES and GENTLEMENNNNN!

We are moving this blog to our NEW LOCATION.

Please update your bookmarks, favorites and bring along any links you may have as you come and visit the new location of our home. You can enjoy the same great ponderings in a fresh new format.

If you are subscribed to our feed, do not fret. With a little bit of skill we should be able to continue feeding your reader with no difficulty via Feedburner. You shouldn’t have to change anything on your end and you won’t miss a beat. Hopefully!

Please be patient with me as I unpack all my boxes in our new home. It is going to take a bit of doing to get organized in our new surroundings. Things will most likely change from day to day as I learn and figure out what I am doing.

But I promise you this move will allow for a much more feature rich blog reading experience on your end.

Thank you for your patience.

Enjoy!

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Dr. Nora Barnes of U-Mass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research is conducting a study about bloggers and is doing something smart – asking for input directly from authors of blogs.

Are you tired of the misconceptions that persist out there about blogging? Now you have an opportunity to help set the record straight. Take a couple of minutes to fill out the survey and return it to Dr. Barnes.

This study was brought to my attention by Liz Strauss over at Successful Blog who first heard about it from Diane Ensey at A List Review.

(We now return you back to your regular blogging program…)

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