Originally posted by BajaGringo
As most of you know, I am involved with an abalone farm outside San Quintin. Over time, my duties have expanded to our oyster farm on the bay and our
operations out on San Martin Island. We recently just signed a deal to begin the early planning stages for our own packing plant, with construction to
begin in the second half of next year. Through all this process my available time sitting in front of a PC has become a precious, dwindling commodity
and why I have had little time to devote to the talkbaja forum or bajanomad for that matter. Now with the additional duties I have assumed it simply
forced me into a decision to change direction.
Last year I created a TalkBaja facebook group. As Facebook has an app that I can easily access from my smartphone / easily readable with these aging
eyes, it made that new direction clear. The idea seems popular as we already have over 1000 group members with the added spice of a cross cultural mix
- something I never planned on in the beginning but the result of which seems to provide good chemistry.
If Doug has no problem with it, (Hello Doug!) I would like to post popular/interesting threads from nomad on the facebook group page from time to
time. I would also welcome anyone who wants to post items from our talkbaja group page here on nomad.
I want to take this opportunity to thank my moderators who have carried the lions share of the workload for me in my absence. It can be a thankless
job and moderators are frequently forced to make unpopular calls where they end up with half the forum angry at them. But to not make that call would
anger the other half of the forum so all they can do is try to follow the forum rules and my guidelines I give them. It's not an easy job but I am
very thankful for all the time and help they unselfishly gave me. I consider you all my lifetime amigos.
In a few days I will pull the forum down for good and the domain will be forwarded to our new facebook group page. I truly hope that you all consider
joining us over there and get involved. For those of you who are not on facebook, today it offers much better online privacy and control. You can
easily choose who has access to see your page, profile, posts and photos. I will admit that at first I was not enamored with facebook but over time
and with the evolution of their platform, they have won me over.
Thank you all for the many messages, emails and posts of support. Cristina says thank you for getting me off the PC earlier at night...
Ron |