You’d think that the weekend would be the time when more people read blogs. They’re more likely to have free time and be sitting down to check personal email, catch up on things, pay bills, etc. But Saturdays have always been the day that I get the lowest traffic.
Anyways, just as an experiment, I’d just like to see who reads on Saturday. If you’re a regular reader or even a lurker or someone who usually doesn’t comment because there are too many comments or you don’t think I’d care about your opinion, it’s okay. I won’t bite. Leave a quick note and let me know that you were here. It will help me to decide if I’m going to keep posting every weekend or not.
While you’re doing that, you can also do a little good for somebody else. On September 21, a fellow blogger, Debangel, is running the Boulder Backroads Marathon in Boulder, CO to raise money for the Lungevity Foundation, which is the only organization in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to funding lung cancer research. She’s doing it for her mother, a non-smoker who died of lung cancer at the young age of 53.
Do you know anyone who’s suffered from lung cancer? Do you want to help? Just go here to find out more information: http://events.lungevity.org/goto/leavenomombehind
Finally, for those of you who know and read the lovely and talented Nina, she’s having a tough time right now and could use some support, whether it’s moral, financial, or otherwise. Go show her some love.
And don’t forget to check back tomorrow for the answer to last week’s contest and my final contest!
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Twitter: Amanda234
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I generally lag on the weekends. I’m commenting now because it’s still Friday night! I try not to post on Saturdays either for some odd reason.
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Twitter: blondefabulous
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I read on Saturdays, but only because the backwater burg I live in doesn’t have a newspaper to sit and read while I am having my morning tea and breakfast. I get my news and Avitable fix on the web…. only way to go!
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I read on Saturdays!
Well, I read some people on Saturdays. I read you every day, though.
Anyway, did I pass the test?
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I don’t post on weekends and I don’t read on weekends, generally.
I came by via your tweet.
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I’m an insomniac, so I almost always read you in the wee hours of the morning.
I do check blogs on Saturdays, but I’ve noticed many bloggers take the weekend off.
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really? Your final contest? Have you said before it was the last? i must have missed that!
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heya. im one of those doesnt comment because so. many. comments. thing. but ya. i read on saturdays. what i want to know is if i just read it in my feed reader does ithat mean that you dont get my traffic.
-cri
p.s. its very hard to type while holding an icecream sandwich
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Twitter: tlkaply
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Dude, I totally read on Saturdays. And Sundays and bank holidays.
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Av, you’re the best for plugging my mom’s fund! For you, I might even be willing to do the race in nothing but my running shoes. Hey, $50 a head *not* to see the video…a great fund-raising idea, no??
I read you every day! I would be bummed not to see anything new on Saturdays. You’re like that extra-cool corner store that’s actually open late when you’re craving a snack
So, no weekend for you!!
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I do read your blog and all of my other favorites on Saturdays and Sundays (usually my catch up time during the school year), but it is still Friday night here. Typically, I try to keep it light on the weekend on my own blog by completing another freaking meme on one of the days. BTW, I also seem to get more traffic Monday – Friday.
Dude, I’ve been meaning to ask: how do I get my avatar on your blog?
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I check my reader daily…it’s a compulsion.
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I read blogs every day. But, then, I have no life.
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Double negative alert: I don’t not read on Saturdays/weekends out of any desire to abstain. So long as I have connectivity I am all over my subscriptions pretty much every day.
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Yep. I read on weekends.
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Twitter: Jayman3768
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Put me down as one of the no life people who read blogs on weekends too.
I guess so many people don’t read or post on Saturday because they do all their blogging when they are on the clock at work.
What’s the deal with people who don’t comment on a blog just because there are so many comments there already? I don’t understand that at all.
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I read on the weekends…actually, whenever Google Reader commands me to read a new blog entry. I’m am Google Readers bitch…
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I do most of my reading on the weekends…and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Oh yeah and Thursdays.
Fridays too.
I have no life.
Pity me. :crying: :loser:
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i was here!
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I read on weekends. I LOVE to read on weekends!
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Consider yourself read on a Saturday!
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Yep I read on Saturdays – I catch up on all the blogs I subscribe to in the weekend.
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I’m useless as input, I’m totally sporadic.
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Not sure whether to dis you for such a shameless stunt to pad your comment count or to praise you for posting about something other than your penis. I read saturdays because I have no cottage.
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Me! I read!
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Still Friday night here but I do check blogs on the weekends and sometimes post too.
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I read whenever something new pops up in my feed reader. Usually you pop up when it’s still Friday night and I get Sunday’s post on Saturday and so on. I always feel one step ahead.
But when I’m in school I usually do all my reading/commenting on the weekends unless I have a light work week.
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I usually read you in the feed reader because your blog takes so freaking long to load. And I read during the week because, duh, during work hours!
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I’m here everyday, lurking in the shadows.
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I try to read on weekends. It all depends on what sort of plans my husband has made that he doesn’t tell me about until I wake up on Saturday afternoons. If there are no plans or just something going on later in the day, then I sit down in front of the computer for some very productive and enlightening blog surfing.
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I’m here! I’m here!
I have nothing else of any real value to add, so instead I’ll just click on some of the smilies.
:sex003: :woohoo: :martini:
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My page views go down on a saturday, but my comments tend to stay roughly the same.
I read on saturdays and sundays, but might not have the same amount of time to comment as I’ve got the kids around swinging off my ear lobes.
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I don’t have your basic 9 to 5. Weekends are just another weekday as far as I’m concerned. I read you every morning over coffee before work, usually right after I’ve caught up on the world news because by then I need something to smile about.
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I’m here every day, even if I don’t say anything.
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Hi. I read usually on weekends in the morning
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I’m with Tracy, I obsessively check my reader every day, especially Saturdays, though. That’s when I work and generally have plenty of time to check and recheck everything.
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Me readah dah blogs every day… I know, I’m weird like that
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I am one who reads and doesn’t comment .. I guess I feel I’ll get lost in the sea of the other comments.
I read ALL the time – not picky of the day of the week.
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nano nano :clap:
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I read on Saturday but I have seen the same thing, traffic on weekends is always low. Shows how many peole are getting their bloggy on when they should be working. When I post something on a Saturday or Sunday, I usually let it stay up an extra day or two.
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I read blogs every day. Now that I have internet at home again I will even comment sometimes.
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Twitter: LeSombre
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Catching up on my blog reading after ~ a week off.
I’m glad you got your Blogography t-shirt…
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Twitter: mr_shiny
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Due to it being the Jewish Sabbath, I regularly hire a blog-reading service which, for a nominal fee, reads and responds to my blogs for me purporting to be me. In fact, I feel that they are grossly underpaid and deserve a hefty raise.
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I don’t miss a day. Ever.
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Twitter: http://whall.org/blog
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Because of the blackmailing incident you and I are involved in, you already know the answer to that question for me.
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I lurk almost every day.
:sexytime:
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:sexytime: Hey! I read everyday… well, most days….ok, everyday…sheesh, such pressure. But maybe if all the blogs I read took a weekend sabbatical I would find something more productive to do. I don’t know if I’ve ever posted a comment, tho. :loser:
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I read all 51 links in my reader that collect feeds several times a day in an effort to avoid my children.
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I pretty much read blogs everyday unless I am doing something exciting. Even if I am away I still usually check my favorites on my pda. But maybe I am just a nerd.
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I read!!
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I read on weekends although I think Saturday’s a a ‘lighter’ traffic day in the summer. I’m going to be mixing things up with my posting now that I don’t have the show on Sundays.
Anyway Hi Adam!
:sexytime:
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Twitter: msbatman
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I don’t read every blog feed in my reader on weekends, but I do make it a point to read yours and Britt’s and a few others every day.
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I read every day (the whole “no life” thing) I think more people read from work.They have a second to log on, comment, and get back to work.Weekends can be distracting.
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Reluctantly read almost daily….
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i am standing for to be counted
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I am generally a lurker, and I read whenever I can.
Here via Tracy Lynn!
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I tend to check my feed reader and go through some of it, but normally on Saturday mornings before my wife wakes up (read: before coffee is ready). Then if I don’t already have the day packed with all sorts of chores or shopping trips to Lowe’s and the grocery store, then I check later on. I tend to Twitter more than I read blogs.
I do put some work in my Scooter Sunday post for my blog, adding things I think of and want to post on.
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Long time lurker
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Weekends are when I catch up on everyone’s blogs…yours included.
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I only occasionally read on the weekend.
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Twitter: Blogography
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I never read blogs on the weekend.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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I generally read blogs 7 days a week, but I find that I comment less on the weekends for some reason.
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Twitter: coalminersgd
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Weekends are off and on for me. It depends on what I’m doing. Typically, I get the kids completely on my own (no evening help from Ty) during one day (giving him a full day off) and then I get the next day. That full weekend day to myself, I’m typically doing a craft project. So, it all depends if I feel like reading or not. I know. I’m waffling.
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I’m reading on the weekend because I’m weak and unable to do much else. Normally I blog when I’m at work and am chained to the computer. Given my ‘druthers, on the weekend I’d rather do something else.
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I read everyday, usually through my news reader, but yes, I even read on weekends
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Lurker and weekend reader!
:dunce:
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I read every day, including Saturday.
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I never go online on Saturday. It is the sabbath, after all, and God has forbidden it.
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PS – I’m sitting here reading blogs like crazy, trying to catch up but not really commenting much. Hrm, maybe I just don’t *comment* on Saturdays as much?
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I read on Saturdays. :batting:
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Twitter: alotofnothing
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I don’t read your filth. And NEVER on a Saturday. Nor do I comment. EVER. Including now.
:sex011:
Why do you make me do these things?
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I read on Saturdays. Nice scrotum, by the way.
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I am way too important and busy to be bothered with reading BLOGS on weekends. I like to spend time with my children and smelling the flowers after a hard work week of saving the world on a daily basis and… wait… what’s today?
Awww Crap! OK So I read you on the weekends too! Screw you, I have no life!! Thanks for the reminder.
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I haven’t been able to see since the post showing your – um – stuff. My vision just returned so hello!
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I sit and read blogs every single day and ignore everything else I am supposed to be doing. Kids have poptarts? Check! Cartoons on? Check!
I’m one of those dillweeds that click on you multiple times a day even though I KNOW you only post once a day.
But, I rarely comment because I am terribly insecure and think I am not really that funny and have nothing worthwhile to contribute.
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I read on weekends.
But just today I was wondering the same thing. I’ve got something that’s struck me as funny but I’m thinking I’ll wait until Monday to post it.
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Hey
I read everyday – you crack me up.
That’s not a request to see a pic of your hairy ass….
No more contests? They were fun – no need for a prize.
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I read blogs through my reader on weekends, and comment occasionally. I try not to spend too much time on the computer on the weekends, but lately it’s all I do.
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Feed reader. Everyday.
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Here! *raises hand*
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Twitter: mamandesfilles
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I totally read blogs on weekend. But then I have no life, just ask my teenaged daughter Lillith
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hidy ho neighborino!
It’s Saturday and I’m reading.
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I was here!!!!!!!!
gramps
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Twitter: hismuse
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It’s funny, I usually have more time on the weekends but I get distracted more than I do at work. There is probably something not right about that. I blog easier while at work because I need to be at the computer all day so I am kind of forced to focus.
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I spend hours on Saturday mornings drinking coffee in my pjs and trolling around the internets. It’s cartoons for grown-ups.
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I work about 16+ hours on Saturdays but I take a break to read while I’m eating.
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I read on weekends unless we have something going on.
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Any time, even Saturdays!
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I try to catch up on blogging on the weekends because I don’t get a lot of time during the week. So, yes, I read on Saturdays.
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I read all the time but mostly thru google reader. I would say I dont’ post on Saturdays but a quick check of my page reminded me I haven’t posted in nearly a year.
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<== long time lurker. I don’t generally read blogs on Saturday. Today is a fluke. So I would say go ahead and take weekends off. That being said, it looks as if you have a fairly large number of weekend readers, so what do I know?
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I try to make the rounds on the weekends or Friday nights. I used to post more on the weekends too but I think I am one of the few who actually reads on the weekends!
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It’s Saturday, you posted, and you showed up in my feed reader. Thus, I’m reading, and commenting!
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I read blogs on weekends, but I have noticed lower traffic on my blog during the weekends too. Hope that helps.
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Twitter: thursdayschild
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I read blogs on Saturdays. If I’ve had a busy work-week, Saturday is blog catch-up day for me.
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I was here. If I don’t read on the weekends then I catch up Monday at work. Helps the day go quicker
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I read on the weekend.
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Of course not, don’t be silly… this comment is a figment of your imagination.. you are getting sleepy.. very sleepy.. now quack like a duck.
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Yep, I read on the weekends.
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Twitter: LeSombre
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100!
I think the real question is:
“Do bloggers reply to comments on Saturdays?”
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I always drop in on Sat. or Sun I just don’t always comment.
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I blog read everyday. It’s like my video game time except that I don’t play video games but if I did I’d find time to do it. Did you understand that?
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‘Bout the only time I don’t read is when you’ve got some video link that’s marked as nasty. I just don’t need the damn weasels scratching at my eyes anymore! :2girls:
So yeah, you show up in my inbox and I read – as if by magic!
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I check my gReader everyday, unless I have something else to do. Um, yeah, everyday. My gReader on the weekends is like Christmas during the Depression, or atleast how I assume it was like then – so sad and empty.
BTW, love your header (and so does my hubz)
I’m going to go back to lurking now …
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I read at least my top five, seven days a week.
You’re in my top five.
I comment pretty much never.
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Traffic is much lighter on the weekend for my blog too. As far as reading others, I’m usually busier on the weekends doing family stuff.
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Yes, I read blogs on weekends. During the school year, when I’m working, it’s the best time to catch up. I have learned, though, not to put a really important post on the weekend because a lot of people will miss it.
J.
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Not lung cancer, but I run at 82% lung capacity while ON meds and about 70% capacity when I’m not, so I’m all for the cause. I’ll go show some love. Will I get a free “personal massager” if I tell them Avitable sent me?
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I quess I’m a lurker since I don’t usually comment but I do have this to say: Please put on pants for your next photo op. :cock:
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I read blogs every day of the week. It doesn’t make a difference to me whether it’s a weekend or weekday. I work during the weekends, so I’m just as likely to be busy then as any other time.
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I have wondered exactly the same thing, about why bloggers don’t blog on the weekend, and I have to say that i’m glad that you do. So keep it up!
xo
b.
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I’m definately NOT here…or am I?
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Twitter: Faiqa
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yeah, but that shot of you with no pants on is making me reconsider.
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I read on the weekends. It’s a ghost town on my site on the weekends, too (even back when I actually updated on the weekends).
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So, you don’t bite?
Yep, I read through my feedreader…
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Holy crap, 115 comments? What’s your secret?
I loved your Dear 13 Year Old Me post. I think every pubescent boy has tried that “trick.” I mean, I once caught my brother trying to do it.
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I read on Saturday. Actually, I read every day!
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I read on the weekends..and on Saturday. This last week has been bad and I haven’t been anywhere really.
You are my first read, every morning…at 5:20 am..after I crack open my Diet Coke, take a sip..smoke a cig..even on Sat.
(I think hubby might be getting jealous)
But now it is Sunday am…
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It’s still Saturday in California!!!
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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normally i would have read yesterday, but i was so hungover that i didn’t have anything but water and sleep all day. anything else, including the glow of the monitor would have made me hurl.
anyhow, normal weekends find me reading both saturday and sunday. coz i am addicted to you. and the insanity that you expose me to.
:2girls: and :bukkake: and :cock:
i love this place.
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I guess not. It’s Sunday now.
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Twitter: Kapgar
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Um, no. Hence why my comment is dated Sunday.
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Like these last couple of slackers…yeah, I’m a Sunday reader.
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:poke: I was here. But it was Sunday.
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I do read on Saturdays, but I’m still behind on reading. I think that fewer people read on weekends, but I’m still feeling compelled to write every day for some reason.
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I’m a bad girl and only read from work, so no reading on Saturday or Sunday.
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Twitter: poppycede
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I do read your Saturday posts, yes.
But on Tuesday, apparently.
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