Post 1400: I used to pay tribute to radio stations....

I can remember some of my milestone posts. Post 1100 paid tribute to WTAM/1100. 1220 paid tribute to 1220/WGAR, and WIXY/1260 was th tribute to that number. That has been a while ago.

Thank you to the people who gave me a warm reception as I made my comeback post, of sorts. As previously stated, I had my Facebook account hacked last winter. I had 981 "friends" at the time. Most of those folks tolerated me and I thought it was cool to have that number of friends. I currently am at 279 and have no ambition to go much higher.

And since I am now a podcaster, many of the old school radio people I was friends with, may look down upon me. The important people now with the podcast is my audience and others in Rittman, Ohio. Matter of fact, this blog has much about the 44270. I may have to repeat some of the classic posts on my blog at Rittmanpress.com.

And as I am learning how to put together a decent website, I may have to do some housekeeping over hers and clean up some links....

And one of my next posts may address the question one of my friends from the United Kingdom asked when I posted my comeback message here-"Does it really matter in the scheme of things?" Spoiler alert: For me, it does.

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