First, I’d like to thank David Adams for tagging me and challenging me to come up with five things about me.

1. The Beginning
My first website I even ran was my old Blogspot blog. This was a few years ago now. I would post articles I wrote about politics, reviews and general rants. David helped give me the push I needed to add a brick in the foundation of my web empire that is steadily growing.

2. Military
I am a proud veteran of the US Navy of ten years. I enlisted directly after graduation of high school. To this day, I think that my enlistment in the Navy was the best decision I have made.

3.Employment
I currently work in manufacturing, and work in the electrical maintenance field. I am currently in a hands on/supervisory position and am not entirely happy where I work. I am currently seeking employment elsewhere.

4. The Family
I am married, happily I might add, and have been for going on six years. I have three wonderful children. My children have recently discovered the internet and I find them obsessing with it just as I do.

5. The Future
What the future holds for me, I am not sure. A part of me would love nothing more than to manage my websites all day, and be paid handsomely for it. The realist in me understands that this may not happen for quite some time. Slow and steady wins the race. I have seen my profits slowly creep upward, and on time will tell if I can maintain that.

I need to scale down.

I don’t plan to sell off any of my sites, but instead I might try to focus more time on a few of them, and put off some of my other pet projects. Maybe fewer is better anyway. Maybe if I try to spend my time promoting just a few, they will pay off more than a lot of smaller sites.

Maybe what I need is a clear strategy, and keep with it. In the past, I have been the text book case of knee jerk webmastering. I might get an idea, then without giving it too much thought, buying a domain and putting together a quick site.

So, I will not knee jerk this idea. I will think it over for a few days. Some of the things I’m pondering are:

* No more custom templates, just for the sake of building them.

* Eliminate posting to other blogs I own for now, until I have more time to give them good thought.

* Continue to promote my popular forum, and spend time working on another newer one.

* Finish current websites I have obligated myself to building, then scaling back on new ones.

* Complete this year’s income tax return, as the mere thought of it is adding stress to my life.

Hopefully, this will clear my conscience, and give me more time with the family.