Quiche, and other sundry details

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Made quiche last night, and served it with meat pie and chicken pot pie. Hmmm, pie.

In other news, I'm jonesing for LJ comments. I miss the days of comment deluges that kept me entertained for hours. Have I become that bland and uninteresting?

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Comments (16) on “Quiche, and other sundry details”

  5. 1) it IS easier to start a crazy conversation about a completely meaningless entry, or at least one that's not just about “what happened today”. strange, but true.

    2) *sigh* okay, i don't know how to write this without sounding like a complete and utter prat, so i'll just have to put up with being one.

    thing is, though… you have seemed to isolate yourself lately lj-wise.
    i mean, compare your own commenting activity nowadays with what it used to be…
    of course, i can only judge from what i see in em's, sara's, and my blog… but you never join any “games” yourself anymore… if you DO comment on someone else's blog (again, i can only judge from my friends list), it's usually katy's.
    plus, you don't answer all comments in YOUR blog, either.

    i mean, what can i say about you taking a walk, for example? or about katy and/or you “feeling less than stellar” yet again?
    in a way, it also seems to be the lj equivalent of the “married couples”-phenomenon. hey, i'm glad for you and katy, but that doesn't mean i'm happy about being more or less ignored, be it on lj or msn.
    even if we DO talk for a while, it's usually not long before you tell me you're busy with other, more important things…
    ok, so they really ARE more important. i'm just saying that i've realised i've simply stopped trying to take much of an interest, because you appear to've lost all interest in contact yourself.
    i read all your entries, but i don't know what to say anymore. a big part of the “comment deluges” used to be/is a lot of running gags – which is a fun way of saying nothing at all about nothing in particular – and when you haven't talked to someone for ages, the running gags don't work anymore.
    ok, so what am i saying here? dunno, really. talk, and you shall be talked to, or something like that.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/raspberrysalmon)

  6. sorry, i'll just go drop off the face of the planet then. and i'll go tell IBM to stop being fucktards so he isn't so busy at work any more. (as for the commenting on my lj, i think you may have noticed that i'm not exactly a frequent poster these days so i refuse to accept that as a part of an argument)

    granted i have a few problems and issues at the moment, which richard is trying to help me through and so i am probably taking up more of his time but i do not like being used as a scape goat (which is what your comment sounds like), and i am trying to make sure that he doesn't loose contact with people, cuz i know there are other things going on in his life other than me and i think you should realise that aswell.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/petkatyyazzick)

  7. it IS easier to start a crazy conversation about a completely meaningless entry, or at least one that's not just about “what happened today”

    Of the last 20 entries in my blog, roughly half fall under the category of random and weird, the other half being slice-of-life entries.

    plus, you don't answer all comments in YOUR blog, either.

    I only answer if I have something valid to say. I don't feel I'm isolating myself, I just can't see the… the point? the fun? in some of the “games” you mention these days.

    i mean, what can i say about you taking a walk, for example? or about katy and/or you “feeling less than stellar” yet again?

    And this is different/worse than Em's water heater woes how? Or Sara's period rants?

    it's usually not long before you tell me you're busy with other, more important things…

    That's a lousy argument and you know it.

    talk, and you shall be talked to, or something like that.

    Meh.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)

  8. i do not like being used as a scape goat

    that is SO not what i was trying to do.
    i'm not blaming anything on you.
    you are important to richard, and that's normal and good.
    i do know that there are other things going on his life, because, like i said, i do read this blog.

    you may have noticed that i'm not exactly a frequent poster these days so i refuse to accept that as a part of an argument

    that wasn't part of the argument in the first place. i didn't say r. didn't comment on other people's blogs because he was busy commenting in yours, but that yours is the only one for which he does seem to find the time. again, quite naturally.

    as to the “couples” thing – well, what can i say? “real life” still IS more important than internet acquaintances, and i know and respect that. and you are part of each others lifes now, and therefore take up a certain “space” there as well…
    all i'm saying is that that makes it difficult for others – ok, let's say, for me, so as not to make this bigger than it is – to comment on most of the things that r. posts. all very nice if someone tells you about their boyfriend/girlfriend, but there's just not much you can say to that after a while.
    quite apart from all that, it IS true: if you don't talk to others, there's not much point in complaining that they don't talk to you. this sounds a lot cruder than i meant it to, but i can't think of a better way of saying it right now.
    r. asked why people didn't comment anymore, and i tried to answer that question. there was no attack against you, neither actual nor implied.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/raspberrysalmon)

  9. I don't feel I'm isolating myself, I just can't see the… the point? the fun? in some of the “games” you mention these days.

    maybe “games” wasn't an ideal choice of words. but, truth to be told, there never was much point in lj conversations, but fun to be had anyway. admittedly, only if you don't have anything better to do.
    which, i guess, is the point, or one of the points, i've been trying to make. you DO have something better to do these days, and that IS partly due to katy.
    that is not an attack against either of you, but a statement.
    and again, i was only trying to answer the question why people weren't commenting on your blog as much as they used to – and all i can do is answer from my point of view.

    And this is different/worse than Em's water heater woes how? Or Sara's period rants?
    the difference isn't so much what they write. the difference is that i feel that i've been in contact with them, which makes it easier to react to whatever they might say.
    it's a bit like the difference between seeing a whole movie (or at least trailer) and only seeing a slideshow of stills from that movie. it is far easier to relate to the movie.

    That's a lousy argument and you know it.
    i don't think it is.
    check your message history. i think in the last three months we had maybe two or three conversations like the ones we used to have. without a “have to go/work/… now”.

    Meh
    yeah, guess so. still, you asked. i tried it with an honest answer.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/raspberrysalmon)

  10. You make it sound like it's my fault. Yes, I have been busy. By the same token, the free time I have to post on LJ to try and catch up on what people are doing and let them know what I've been up to seems unappreciated, for lack of a better word, which annoys me.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)

  11. heck, it doesn't have to be anybody's fault!
    aaaaargh. first i have to explain to katy that i'm not blaming anything on her, now to you??

    but it seems to me there are two basic functions of lj: 1) keeping an online diary, and 2)communication with others.

    the diary part is easy… but to make the communication part work, “look, i posted something, talk to me” often isn't quite enough, especially if lj is the only way you communicate with some people.
    it's NOT, i repeat, NOT an attack. but that's the way it is.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/raspberrysalmon)

  14. …so how could i have worded it in a way that wouldn't have caused all this? seriously. i tried to find a better way of saying it before my first long comment, but it seems to me no matter HOW i'd have said it, i'd have had to explain. which is why i wrote that part about “sounding ilke a prat” in the first place.
    hm. guess it was partly a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/raspberrysalmon)

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