Some people want to be on TV.
And some people want to be on the web.
So here I am, on the web. And you are reading Page 1.
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You’d think I would have done this a long time ago, but no. It’s always been too much work. Too much technology. Too much to learn. Or I just don’t know how.
Or maybe it’s just not worth it? We’re going to find out.
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Why, you might ask, would I want to be online? Who is going to visit my site? What am I going to write about? Who cares what Reid has to say?
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There’s a stale joke in our house that “there’s a lot going on in my driveway,” and I haven’t always been good about keeping people up-to-date. My family, I’m hoping, will be interested in how the new house is turning out. Maybe even my friends. A lot of my shop projects will make good reading. For 35 years, I’ve kept notebooks filled with commentary, crazy ideas, and to-do lists. Some of it could be blogged. I just retired, and I suddenly have big plans and enough time to work on them. I want to share my progress and my failures with you, because it’s interesting stuff.
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I’ve been planning to get this going for awhile now, and I’ve got a bit of a backlog of topics.
I sold my house and moved, and it was quite the experience.
Everyone asks how the house is coming along, and saying “good” just doesn’t cut it.
I’ve got an old barn to fix up. A pond to revive. Cabinets and doors to build. New bike routes to ride. And more.
I mentioned to Ella that I hoped to put a web site together to share the house project, and the term ‘BackBlog’ came up, meaning to Blog about old news. But isn’t most blogging backBlogging? If Today’s events are so much more relevant than last week’s, then … well, there’s Twitter for that. While I can’t blog about what I did tomorrow, I can build a narrative, and keep you on the edge of your seat, panting for my next posting. And some day – mark my words – this site will go viral.
There’s another reason I want to be online:
In person, I’m a boring guy. I fumble for words and I say the wrong things. I can’t do small talk. My hearing is my downfall. We just got back from Adam’s wedding and, time after time, I couldn’t socialize because I just couldn’t hear. It was like high school all over again and no matter what they say, people come away un-impressed, as in “What a loser. What does Mary see in this guy?” Well there’s a lot to see. There’s a smart, funny, capable guy locked away in here, struggling to get out.
By blogging my life, I want to show that there’s Reid. And then there’s Reid Online.
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Join me.