I’m running into one of those situations where I am intensely grateful to have a home business. My infant son, Gage, has just turned one month old, and is probably going to have surgery to repair his scaphocephaly (he has a long, narrow head) in a month or two. Having a home business means I don’t have toworry about how I’m going to be there. I was able to go to see the pediatric neurosurgeon yesterday on a moment’s notice to discuss this condition. We’ll be getting a CT scan of his head to confirm the diagnosis in a couple weeks, and surgery when they think he will be old enough, probably before he is three months old.

Of course, this will have an impact on my ability to work on my business, but if you can’t be there for your family, what’s the point?

On a lighter note, do you use any of the tools at Digital Point. The keyword tracker just got an upgrade. You can now track results on Yahoo! and MSN in addition to Google. You just have to put a php script on your server, since queries are limited by IP address. It’s really great to be able to see where you rank on a variety of search engines. Probably the best way to view results is graphically, so that you can see trends. If you don’t use this tool, I hope you are tracking your rankings somehow. It’s good to know where you need to focus your efforts and when a good keyword is getting up where you want it without having to search for it yourself.