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Julia.
I don't ever try to be rude to anyone. I enjoy reading your posts and you know I missed you while you were away. Those cat scratches you told us about worry me. Of course, I am the one who had to get a tetanus shot and take antibiotic because my traumatized cat bit me. Is your tetanus shot up to date. The doctor told me that cats are much more germy than dogs, especially their bite. I imagine they have a lot of bacteria under their nails. I wouldn't want you to end up with any complications from the cat scratches.
When I was a little girl my father took me to the doctor for a cold or something and I remember my father telling the doctor that I had 'Catitis.' My hands were all scratched up. Looking back, now I think that was cute that my father came up with that.
Take care ..........until next time.
posted by
jacentaOld
on August 16, 2006 at 1:53 PM
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well keep reading me...LOL
I will thank ya every time.
posted by
Root05
on August 16, 2006 at 11:29 AM
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Hmmm
I have been commenting irregularly lately...still more reading than commenting or writing anything... and I don't comment evenly I am sure because I don't try to... but I do read...
I can be ruder....
posted by
FactorFiction
on August 16, 2006 at 5:46 AM
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Julia, I'm glad your travels are over and you're settled in your new home. I've put you in my favorites and will try to do better. I'll never be rude to you though.
posted by
MaggieMae
on August 15, 2006 at 4:13 PM
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Good idea Offy--
I feel another name change coming on, LOL.
posted by
Julia.
on August 15, 2006 at 2:52 PM
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Julia
Your darned right I should have noticed that...I wondered what happened to you~ So I have added you to my favorites in case I lose you again!!
posted by
Offy
on August 15, 2006 at 2:46 PM
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Some have a policy.....
Of not commenting back at all......as long as it's across the board and I enjoy reading their posts...I'll still go there. There are times when I can't respond to a post.....I just don't have anything to say.......and I remember, when I started here, seeing "click cards" or something like that to prove you have visited a site.......some of us have too much time on our hands.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 15, 2006 at 6:12 AM
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Like Poker or Other Games, in My Opinion
I think there is an existing strategy that if you read new comers or less popular blogs and leave comments, those people will read you and add to your reader base for they feel highly valued when a popular blogger reads their post. More is gained in clicks that way as opposed to developing a relationship with a popular blogger.
I understand your post and am offering a different point of view for consideration. Those who read and write for their own purposes, are easily satisfied to just read and write when they can and comment if and when they can. Time is a major factor!!! Good thought provoking post!
posted by
Dr_JPT
on August 15, 2006 at 6:07 AM
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hey Julia
I'm one who barely has time to stop by....work has me tied by the feet with multiple responsibilities....but nevertheless the time I do have...I'll give my clicks to my fellow blogger friends and to some of the interesting catchy headings! Stopping in to say hi and goodmorning!
posted by
cosy
on August 15, 2006 at 5:58 AM
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Julia
Maybe the blogger is on vacation, busy and will catch up later? I am just thinking that because when I come back from my holidays it takes me forever to catch up on my reading..I do agree with you sometimes some are just rude, but there are people I read who no matter what, I will continue to read because I like what they say! I think this is the first time I read you and I will be back! Good post!
posted by
Offy
on August 15, 2006 at 4:46 AM
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Julia. --
I hope I've not done this to you as I do try to reciprocate. I just told TAPS that I must be an ADD reader!! I was reading the comments to your blog and feeling guilty (I can't remember if I'm one of "those"!) and saw her name and thought to myself, 'I need to click TAPS' blog' and before I left a comment on YOURS, I'd had clicked away to HERS! (Sorry, I was getting a little "Kathy Griffins on the D-List" there).
I know for a fact that I've written nice little comments and gone back to see if those were responded to, and they're no longer there?! I never write in flames, so why would one have deleted them? So THEN I wonder if I'm imagining seeing them there, (I take a lot of drugs for Parkinson's) and the writer never saw the comment
either and it's lost in cyber-space out there somewhere, and they may be thinking
I'm the deadbeat?? Oh dear oh dear......
OK -- taking a breath now!
CeeMarie
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 15, 2006 at 2:29 AM
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posted by
A-and-B
on August 15, 2006 at 2:27 AM
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Well put and I agree...I always try to reciprocate...
It's impolite to do otherwise.
posted by
Passionflower
on August 14, 2006 at 10:24 PM
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Julea
You are exactly right. If I comment on your post you should respond there and comment on a post of mine as well. I think that is only good manners. How is everything going other than the clicking?
posted by
Justi
on August 14, 2006 at 9:15 PM
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Julia
I support you luv, good for you speaking out. Thanks for being in here for me to read my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 14, 2006 at 7:08 PM
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It can be very rude and it does suck
I'm kind of the same why, Ill only take so much. Sometimes I'll skip a day or two but I try to do unto others and we want them to do unto us. ~Silly
posted by
SillySoul88
on August 14, 2006 at 5:05 PM
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I think you hit the nail on the head...there's a difference between being busy and ignoring others.
posted by
Tandra
on August 14, 2006 at 4:52 PM
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I only know a handful who would return clicks. The majority don't.
(B)
posted by
A-and-B
on August 14, 2006 at 3:31 PM
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Julia,
I can understand why you're upset. If you've gotten to know people here rather well, it can be hurtful when you leave comments and replies aren't made. Its happened to me a few times, but I do my best not to be unkind about it. (Not that this post was unkind at all...I want you to know that.)
Having said that, please, please understand that when I don't comment on someone who's commented on me, it is never out of rudeness. My energy is often limited to writing the few posts I manage in a day, so depending on how much I actually have, it has to be spent accordingly.
God bless...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on August 14, 2006 at 2:15 PM
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If you recall I wrote a difficult to recall the name post
Tit For Tat, Starboard vs Port BUT What About Tit (or Tat) for Zilch? about how the ship goes arond in circles when the currents run only one way.
Some folk will discuss something for eternity at their place ........
I had someone say to me the other day that I'd got my click. I don't care about clicks unless there are none ;-)
posted by
Azur
on August 14, 2006 at 1:22 PM
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well said blackcat couldn't agree more xxx
posted by
M.C.BREEZE
on August 14, 2006 at 12:44 PM
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I try to get back to everyone if they make current posts. When I see it
go by in the "New Post" area, I always read them first. I know there are a few that have no interest in leaving comments for me, and unfortunately, that's made my interest in their posts wane as well. Oh well... like you said, there's only so much time to be spread around. I might as well give back to the giving!
posted by
-blackcat
on August 14, 2006 at 12:40 PM
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Julia
There are unwritten rules here. It is common politeness to afford someone the same courtesy.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 14, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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I kinda go in spells, which may very well be rude.
I nearly always click -- I sort of run feast or famine with commentary -- either I can get to a lot of folks or I can't get to any. But if you don't hear from me, that just means I haven't been around that much.
Then, of course, sometimes I'm just lazy, which sucks on my part...
posted by
strat
on August 14, 2006 at 12:29 PM
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I ALWAYS click your posts...
Though I may not always leave comments.
I've been in the writing rut again--the one where I just don't want to write. :(
But I still love you and your writing!
posted by
Jemmie211
on August 14, 2006 at 11:51 AM
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Julia, even it if's not strictly quid pro quo, it's still nice to get
acknowledged. I know I'm not everyone's cup of tea, political bloggers for example, typically sniff at journal writers, so I've learned not to expect reciprocal clicks from people who typically write there, but still, you're right. It's like phone calls, if one person is doing all the calling, there's an imbalance.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 14, 2006 at 11:38 AM
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I have a few I had to get that way with.
posted by
bel_1965
on August 14, 2006 at 10:43 AM
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Julia., I linked you today on my latest post. I hope you don't mind.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2006 at 10:33 AM
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I've been guilty of this
It's not always rudeness but just cluelessness. At least that's my excuse. I found myself so busy with the blogs I discovered when I first came here, that it didn't occur to me that I should be reading the blogs of those who read me. I know there are those I read and comment on, who never visit me and I'm okay with that. Not sure why I don't care, but I think that fed into my cluelessness. But as you can see, I'm learning. I came here after you commented on my blog.
posted by
TVBlogger
on August 14, 2006 at 10:30 AM
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Amen! :-)
posted by
Ariala
on August 14, 2006 at 10:19 AM
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