The Billion Dollar Quest

… and I’m feeling good.  This the most inspired, productive & motivated I have felt in about 2 years.  I’m totally kicking ass again.  I have just one more long session – which I am going to do right now – and then I am done with phase 1 of my site rebuild, at long last.  I’ve been needing to take care of this for a long time, so I think the fact that I finally summoned the energy to make it happen has really given me a jumpstart.  Not only have I relieved myself of a burden I’ve been shouldering for more than a year, I also reminded myself of how much I can get done when I really set my mind to it.  Next up is phase 2 of rebuild which is re-starting brainball, wordball & the typing test,  and integrating them with playwithyourmind.com and facebook (<- in bold because it’s a new development and I am partiularly excited about it) which is well underway already (yeah I took a break from finishing phase I when I became overwhelmed with the excitment and potential.

I’m so rolling right now, I even  turned what could have been a totally demoralizing and nearly catastrophic thing into a wonderful development.  Two weeks ago my account was permanently suspended from my old web host because of some recurring server abuse that I could never pinpoint and they were no help.  But fortunately I had recent backups of most things and I was able to get it all over to a new webhost in just a couple days….. and now I am so so so happy that it happened.  Everything about this new arrangment is better – faster, more reliable, cheaper, better support, more efficient tools.  Although it was super-annoying to deal with for 2 days, it forced me to do something I should have done 2 years ago.

So now my site is looking better, running faster & more reliably, organized better, and generally working properly.  And it’s already making more money, getting more traffic, etc so that’s a nice reinforcement.  I can’t wait until things are more squared off so I can go about promoting it again – something I was more reluctant to do when I was down about it.

Thanks WordPress.

The Keyboard Playground is now coming in at #10 on the google search for ‘typing games’ so I have reached my preliminary goal.  Now each step up the ladder will mean a noticeable increased in traffic.  In a week or so I’ll post some info my my google analytics account to see how this ascension has impacted the site traffic.