Yup that is what I was getting at :) I am a small fish in the steem pond but basically a whale in the Creative Crypto pond lol. Currently one CCC is ~ .05 Steem so ~20 CCC per Steem. Most of my posts lately have actually earned more $ in CCC than Steem!

So a lot has changed in the time you were away (obviously). Creative Coin Crypto (CCC) is only one of many tokens running on a sidechain of the Steem blockchain. You already have a wallet for CCC and all the other tokens by virtue of having a Steem account. You can visit steem-engine.com to log in to your wallet, claim your tokens when your post pays out, trade the tokens for Steem on the internal steem-engine.com exchange (if you want to) or "stake" (the equivalent of "power up") any token to gain influence on distribution of that token (e.g. if you stake any of the CCC you earn, then when you upvote a Steem post that has #creativecoin tag you would be awarding CCC to the author and earning CCC in curation from your vote).

There are a lot of new tokens for all kinds of interests/communities and it can be a little overwhelming. Now that you have the base idea, here are a few that I would recommend you use:
#palnet tag is associated with PALcoin (PAL) and palnet.io website. It is a general purpose tag, go ahead and use it on all your posting. PAL was the first of the sidechain tokens, and believe it or not has already been listed on bittrex (BTC-PAL pair, but not available for US users). PAL is part of the MSP (minnow support project) and a lot of your existing followers are PAL stakeholders, so definitely makes sense to use that tag.
#creativecoin and #sonicgroove I already told you about, #creativecoin (CCC) for all creative posts (including creative non-fiction) and #sonicgroove for music. #sonicgroove (SONIC) is an interest specific (music) offshoot of the Creative Coin umbrella. There will be other interest specific offshoots coming.
#neoxian is another general purpose tag, probably the second largest general purpose tag / community behind palnet/pal. Might as well use #neoxian on all posting.

There are others, e.g. #stem for science, tech, engingeering and math posting, #sportstalk for sports related posting, etc. For the most part I am guessing the other tribes / tokens may not be super relevant to you, but as you get time you may want to check some more of them out.

So as both myself and @torico suggested, use steempeak.com as your front end for steem blockchain now. It has left steemit.com in the dust. I personally don't like the default large post view that steempeak.com uses when looking at your feed, but if you press the button I circled below you can cycle through different post views including a condensed view that is same as steemit.com

There are many reasons to use steempeak.com instead of steemit.com. One of them is ability to use up to 10 tags which is crucial now with the various new tokens all requiring use of a tag. You can also see the payout in various tokens from steempeak if you hover your cursor over (or touch on mobile) the post payout, it will pop up any payout in side tokens as well. You can also browse all the "Tribes" on steempeak - tribes are communities with their own token.

Aight that is enough Steem re-education for one extremely long comment. Let me know if you have questions! Much love brother