That’s a good question Paula. Back in the early 90’s I chatted on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). You had to dial them up directly with a modem and usually only had a hand full of lines. They were also only local. It was still a blast and I met some really good friends that I still have today through them. I also met my second wife on a BBS, whom (did I use that right?) I don’t still have today, thankfully.

When the internet came along I discovered Internet Relay Chat (IRC) where you could chat with thousand of different people all over the world. It was set up with different servers and all kinds of topics for different chat rooms. That’s where I met my third (and current) wife, thankfully. I lured her all the way from Canada with my charming wiles. Or more than likely I just got damn lucky.

These days I’ve noticed that the chat rooms aren’t that big of a thing anymore. It’s like we went from pre-computer days to only socializing with a close circle of known friends, to having contact with people all over the world, then back to only facebooking, twittering, or instagramming another close circle of friends. And it’s not really chatting. It’s just dropping a message or two every now and then to someone’s post or picture.

I kind of miss the old days of chat rooms. They say you can’t go home again and to that I raise the BS flag.

Since I’ve been in the blogosphere I’ve gotten to know quite a few other bloggers through the comments we leave on each other’s blogs. I thought it might be a nice touch to have the option to live chat with each other. I installed a chat room feature on my blog. You can access it a couple of ways. There is a new item at the top in the menu labeled Let’s Chat! or there is a little chat icon at the bottom left of every page of the blog. That will bring up a chat window. You can go into the chat room as a guest or you can sign up for a free profile at Minnit to create a profile that will be used every time you go in the chat room. You can also use the menu at the bottom to pop the chat room out into it’s own window so you don’t have to stay on the blog to use it.

If this sounds something you’d like to try I’d love to chat with all you cool cats. I work from home now so I plan on having the chat window up during the day. Around 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM EST. Drop by and say hello. Also I don’t have to be here for you to chat with others. Feel free to come and go all hours of the day and night. I hope you do!

I’d also like to give a shout out to Rivergirl for helping me test the chat functions out before I went live. She’s good people. Check out her blog if you haven’t already.

OK, what are you waiting for? Come chat me up!

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