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[devi]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but why is LJ always dead on Sunday evenings? It's baffling. I'd have thought most people would have net access at home by now, so it can't be a 'can only post at work' thing, and I'd also expect people to be in on Sunday evenings since it's a school night, kicking around at home and potentially thinking of interesting things to post. Is it that you can't spod without the thrill of the forbidden, the threat of the boss popping up behind you? Is Sunday your sacred night to spend offline with your real-life people? Is it just that no one goes online because they assume no one else will be there?

...No, I'm not procrastinating. Why do you ask?

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[pyoor_excuse]

I dunno why, I've noticed it too though. And not just on LJ, but on forums too.

I sit there going 'post god-damn-you' because I'm bored witless, or today killing time until heading to London tomorrow while Trey waits to become tired.

What are they all doing on Sunday nights? It's not like there's any great TV on....

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Your icon is bizarre. Respect.

[pyoor_excuse]

Heh, Cheers! Sadly I can claim absolutely none of the credit for it, my GF made it for me.

[uon.livejournal.com]

Do you use the Badger Grinding Service ?

(For me, Sunday is usually dead time, whether I like it or not. It's my last chance to recover from the excesses of the weekend and prepare for the approaching week, so I'm even less likely than usual to have any energy left over to post to LJ.)

[tackline.livejournal.com]

They appear to have made a bit of a botch job moving data centres.

http://status.livejournal.org/ (http://status.livejournal.org/)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Ah, so that's why I'm getting 404s for all my Scrapbook pages... hope they come back.

[kauket.livejournal.com]

It is surprising and disappointing as I'm working and would rather be reading LJ

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Working sucks. And I've no idea why t'interweb dies a death on Sunday nights, I'm usually about.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Argh, I'm trying to work and I can't settle to anything, I have loads of drive but no steering wheel. I just opened up Word for the first time today and it's twenty to eleven.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

I dunno, I'm on the interweb. I'm also watching a film, intermittently cooking more lunches for the weeks ahead, and fixing several of my PCs.
But there's nothing to read on LJ. Maybe I should post something.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm on the interweb.

It occurred to me after I put this up that the people who are going to see it are exactly the people who won't be able to answer my question :)

Though mooism has had a pretty good go.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Repost at five to noon tomorrow ;-)

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Casually posting a thought that’s come into your head is easier if you’re already sitting at your computer.

Some people visit certain places to get away from work, but don’t consider them compelling enough to visit at the weekend.

People have been out doing stuff during the day, and are now being lethargic before Monday morning hits.

People have been stuck inside doing nothing interesting at all, and don’t want to admit to it.

Phone calls are cheaper.

People went to a fantastic party last night. It went on a bit late. They woke up at 2pm and have spent the day shuffling around saying things like “Ow, my head” and “Where’s the tea?” If they’re really unlucky, the sight of what the milk’s turned into has turned their stomach. They’re probably not capable of operating a computer.

78% of one day family visits happen on Sundays.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Some people post lots on Sundays (http://www.livejournal.com/users/feanelwa/714042.html).

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I think mostly on Sunday evenings, people *aren’t* procrastinating.

[ravenblack.livejournal.com]

I think that's the best explanation, as it also explains why I am just as likely to post on Sunday night as any other time.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I assume no-one will be reading, or that comment-based discussions will stop quickly because everyone will read briefly before they go to bed.
This is a bit silly, since I am reading and now commenting....

[darklily.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I find that LJ is usually stone dead on Saturdays but picks up a bit on Sunday, though this Sunday has been quieter than expected.
Where everyone goes off to, I haven't the foggiest. Possibly we're all too busy frantically refreshing our friendspages wondering why nothing is being posted to write posts of our own...

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

... you ought to start a sundaynightinternetgroup ... I'm on line. Very pleased to have finaly got my broadband wifi at home. I'm sure that the novelty will wear off. I've just finished watching the Titfield Thunderbolt.
Hope you're well and that you track down your muse ...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I just barely saw your tektek person the other night before it disappeared (kawaii!) and I did wonder if you were still at work!

The Muse has showed up at last, and she wants me to find out the maximum velocity of large oceangoing fish. She's an odd woman.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

What is the maximum velocity of large oceangoing fish?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

African or European?

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Take your pick.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That's the same article I found. How did I ever write anything before there was an interweb?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It seems to be thirty or forty miles an hour, tops. Small fish that leap out of the water can get up to sixty or so, but all in all it looks like I'm going to have to come up with some sci-fi gimmick for my ultra-speedy sentient alien fish that goes as fast as a bullet train :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Going through water fast is pretty tricky, because of the immense resistance. Even modern submarines struggle to get much past 30 mph, and they've got chuffing great nuclear reactors pushing them.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Damn you, cool and funky creatures which pop up in my imagination and then turn out to be physically impossible!

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

it's odd, as several different people who sell stuff on ebay tell me auctions finishing on Sunday night get the best response, as most people are in. I seem to be working a lot of weekends at the moment, and saytime wekend lj posts to keep me entertained are minimal.

I'm not posting much anyway at the moment, but if I do want the most people to read a post (not necessarily comments), weekday mornings seem to work, even if a post is written over the weekend and saved as a private post to repost later.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

a post is written over the weekend and saved as a private post to repost later.

Yeah, I do that too. :)

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

>weekday mornings seem to work

Oh you cunning devil. Although I had come to the same conclusion, I've not been disciplined enough to action it. Pleaze excuse bizniss speak.

Black Dog Sabbath

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Sunday evening is a time divinely ordained for solitude to be painful to people who are alone. That's why the web is dead tonight.

Meanwhile, I'm at my cousin Christopher's hill farm in the Nagle Mountains and realising, consciously and clearly, that I do not wish to be here. Yes, they are nice pople but... Some other time, I'll run through the reasons, but I have eaten his meat and drunk his ale: I will not speak ill of him and his family. Not tonight, and not while I am under his roof.

Realising subliminally that I do not wish to be here has led my dreams into places that I ought to be glad to have seen and finally understood. But on the whole, I'd rather not: we all have things in memories of our formative experiences that are best left well alone.

Let's just say that the solitude weighs on me more heavily than it has done at almost any time since I started LiveJournalling.

Which leaves me wondering: how does 'place' affect your dreams?

Re: Black Dog Sabbath

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this, and I can't see a correlation between where I am physically and what I dream, or the atmosphere of the dreams. Except that they seem a bit more vivid and a bit more obvious in what they're trying to say when I'm back in Ireland. Odd that.

My dreams aren't usually relevant to what's happening now. It takes new things and experiences several months to show up in my dreams. But if I dream about a new person or place as soon as I meet it, I know it has to matter to me in a big way.

Good luck with your family angst (I've had big helpings of it over the last few weeks).

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I'm out doing things on Sunday evenings the same as I am every other night of the week. And then I check into LJ in the early hours of Monday morning. I'm too hard for schoolnights.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm too unemployed for schoolnights. Alternatively, in November every night is a schoolnight.

[juliet]

Sundays are generally my films/beer/pizza quietish night with marnameow, sbp, & dogrando. Last night featured a couple more folk & a *lot* more wine than usual, as we were making Xmas pudding (it being Stir-Up Sunday, according to Pete).

Plus, I usually LJ at work, when I am bored, not at home, when am less so :-)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That sounds lovely. I was just thinking before I logged on that I wanted to bake something - this time of year does it to me. Hibernating and baking.

[kauket.livejournal.com]

I read that too fast, as 'hibernating and barking'

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

For my part, knirirr wouldn't let me on the computer; I actually didn't notice as I'd been placed on the sofa with knitting and Two Towers disc 2 on...

[dr-f-dellamorte.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't have the net at home at the moment!

[ex-kittybutl858.livejournal.com]

totally agree about the 'dead' lj thingie.
hope it's ok that I added you :)