I know...it's been a long time. A lot has happened in that long time.` In the years since I stopped blogging, I have been on some forums, I have been on Facebook, I have been in some Facebook groups (some of those groups used to be independent forums). I have learned that I don't really like big discussion groups--I like the smaller ones better. I don't like taking part in discussions on sites that have thousands of members. To me, a couple hundred is tons. A few dozen is just fine.
I know I was never a big-name blogger, and I am okay with that. I had a few followers, some of them friends--one was a man in another part of the country that I met when we were both commenting on someone else's blog, and we started emailing and commenting on each other's blogs. We are still friends to this day. He even managed to stop by and meet me one year when he and his wife made a cross-country trip. And if this virus ever dies down, I may take a trip down his way. I am retired now, and can take the time to travel a bit. I was self-employed for 45 years, and never had paid vacations, so traveling was often hard. And since I was a remodeling contractor, my busy season was spring through fall--it was hard for me to get away for more than a weekend during the summer.
I have been observing what's happened, and thinking about things during those silent years, and I guess I have some things to say. Some of the things I want to say probably wouldn't work well in comments on Facebook or Twitter (I have never been on Twitter, and am not inclined to join it, or Gab, or Parler).
A few weeks ago Glenn Reynolds, founder of Instapundit, the man they call the Blogfather, expressed some regrets that Facebook and Twitter and other social media had displaced the old blogosphere we used to have. I have no illusions that I can bring it back. But I am going to try to bring back my own little bit of it. Whether anyone shows up to read it...I don't know. But maybe some will. We shall see.
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