If you came by to visit Beanarita.com over the past month, you were welcomed by Obama giving a comforting gesture and telling you, “Beanarita.com will be back soon.”

Obama's Home Page is Beanarita.com

So what’s been going on the last month?
Well, things have been pretty busy. The wife is now 7 1/2 months prego, I’ve been on the road for work, training for a marathon and raced in my first adventure race: an offroad duathlon. This coming week I’ll publish a few posts with the deets of all those things, so check back soon if you haven’t already set Beanarita.com as your Home Page.

Why was the site down?
When I originally setup Beanarita.com the sole reason was to teach myself a little about basic web design and html. As I made my way through numerous WordPress themes and started learning how to integrate plugins, I slowly picked up some of the basic knowledge I was looking for. Then, I kinda got addicted to this place. I tried out as many different plugins as I could find to see what they did. I customized some of the php on the back end of the themes and kept rewriting the style sheets until before long, I had a website that was cluttered and indiscernible of any theme or real organization.

Ultimately, I made the decision to take down the site so that I could figure out what I had created and what I wanted to do with it. At this point, life hasn’t slowed down a bit – it seems to be speeding up! I decided that, while I may use Beanarita.com as a test bed for new things every once in a while, the site will move forward as my personal blog to share all the randomness and funny stories that keep me going every day.

So until the next post, here’s your homework: check out the archives at the bottom of the page and catch up on some of the older posts, follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/beanaritadotcom, set Beanarita.com as your Home Page and get ready for some better-organized randomness!

OH! Also, click on the “comments” link below the post and leave me a comment!

Thanks for stopping by!