If anything, this Friday morning was more miserable than Thursday. Still, today we had a quorum as the usual cast of codgers could be found at the table, in front by the plate-glass window, where we can watch passers by, and maybe (usually) make a comment or two.
“Jay, tell us about this blog thing you’ve been writing,” said Carl, stirring cream into his coffee, “why do you do it?”
“Well, you guys know about my column in my family newsletter,” I replied, “its kinda like that, only with you guys as the stars…”
“..The one you’ve been writing since you were six?” Medford, interrupting me (as usual), “you still do it?”
“I didn’t start the column when I was six,” I said rising to the bait, “it was a diary, my 1st grade teacher required all of us to keep…”
“…Gotcha!” Medford said, interrupting again, “the question was about blogs…”
“…And if you hadn’t asked the dumb question about being six,” I rejoined, “anyway, the diary later became a journal (girls write diaries, boys write journals!), that I’ve kept on and off ever since. When blogs began, a few years back, they were simply on-line journals…”
“…The question was not “what is a blog?,’ but why do you write one on Active Rain?” Carl reminded us, stopping the digression in its tracks.
“What’s Acid Rain?” asked Fred.
“Active Rain, Fred, Active Rain!” an exasperated Medford exclaimed, “turn up your hearing aid.”
“Active Rain, if I understand correctly,” I began, “was created originally as a blogging vehicle for real estate professionals to communicate with consumers and thereby to expand their business…”
“…But it seems to have morphed into a forum of sorts for R.E. professionals to express their opinions, discuss strategies, both on line and off, for improving their businesses,” added the interrupting Medford (we do this to one another with some frequency, as you may have noted), “and for those who provide support services for REALTORS® to sell their service. This change of a 'national real estate' blogging platform, to an effective forum, may be because just as 'all politics is local,' when you boil it down, all real estate is local, and the REALTOR'S® personal real estate blogs would likely be more effective, I think.”
“As to the ‘why’ part of your question, Carl,” I concluded, “it’s to provide a little non-REALTOR® perspective to the forum, as well as a little humor and a little history.”
Jay & Medford
Jay Merton & Medford Ambrose, the Codgers
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I think that's really cool that you kept a journal. My grandfather always had a journal. He wrote in one of those oversized bound books that you can't tear the pages out of. He passed away in 1975 so it's nice that I have his journals as a reminder of his life.