After much thought and review of my time and skills right now I have decided to stop developing my own Rails powered blog and instead to contribute to the Typo blogging system. I still feel that Typo has too much built in, but it is a very good system with most of the features I need and a strong (and growing) community.
So I will be trying to help improve Typo and maybe later I will come back to my own system I have been working on.
Eric Davis