[ghettoelleth]

A game similar to: Where were you during the black out?

1. Screamed in disbelief and horror.
2. Banged my head against the desk many times.
3. Tried desperately to remember the names and relationship to me of all the people living in my house.
4. Attempted to converse with said people in my house.
5. Gave up and simply tried valiantly to look interested as they told me about themselves, all the while wondering what was going on with Cirdan in Space's fic, Grey Havens
6. Came back, tried to get into site again.
7. Sighed, stared at error message for ten minutes.
8. e-mailed all of my osa friends to reassure myself that it wasn't just my ISP ( I know Do, hush!)
9. Stared some more
10. Wondered if the world would end
11. Tried to work on my fic and realized I had an important question and really needed access to the writing tips and hints thread.
12. Wrapped toothpick in paper towel and cleaned my keyboard.
13. Wrote Do, just to see if Robbie was up yet
14. Quadruple checked to make sure I sent Do that e-mail.
15. Checked site again, wrote Al to ask, "Are you in yet?"
16. Removed all the keys from my keyboard and cleaned each one individually
17. Checked to see if I could get into site yet.
18. Wrote a 16 page letter to Do in red bold face type
19. Checked to see if I could get into site yet
20. Deleted letter to Do as I decided I am far too young to die
21. Wrote a 16 page letter to Scribe in red, bold face type
22 Checked to see if I could get into site
23. Translated 16 page letter to Scribe in red bold faced type into Klingon and hit send.
24. Checked to see if I could get into site as I waited patiently for the hit men to show up at my door.
25. Checked to see if I could get into site.
26. Wrote space an e-mail asking, "are you in yet?"
27. Took pics of cat in suggestive positions
28. Checked to see if I could get into site yet
30. Took a 7 hour nap, dreamt a total of 16 times that I was able to get into site
31. Woke up screaming after nightmare that I could never get into site again.
32. Finally, OSA is back online and I can start ignoring all these people in my house again.

[Eruanna]

Ghetto:

My only alternative was to turn to real life... How boring...

Not many elves in skimpy deerskin nothings in real life.

--Eruanna, who also tried many times to log in...

[Kendra]

Well, you did manage to keep busy! Sorta kept out of trouble. And were somewhat productive! So all in all, it went rather...okay.<g>

Now, about that toothpick and papertowel deal....if nothing else came from this downtime, you've got the best, most sparkling keyboard for miles about!! I think that counts for something.

Kendra

[DarkElfChilde]

I stared at my computer screen and made a new avie when the site was down, chatted to a few people...drew...wrote up a new story that isn't LotR related...uh...played Halo 2...and played Halo 2...Halo 2...looked to see if the site was up many times...uh...Halo 2 again...drew...slept...trained for a few hours in Aikido....meditated (haven't done that in a while...I feel good actually since I did)...and slept...that was DEC's day when the OSA stood still.


- DEC

[Alassante]

Ya know, it has been said that baby booms happen during times like severe snow or any occurance where people lose their power for long periods of time. I assume they are implying it is because people had nothing to do without power other than have sex.

I wonder how many pregnant OSA women will be complaining on the forum threads over the next 9 months about gaining weight and swollen ankles. Inglor, Ro, and Robbie, as the only three men that seem to visit the threads, I recommend you run and hide now while you still can.

[inglor]

What did I do while the site was down... actually got some work done...

[Haleth]

Ghetto? There are several tall, frightening looking individuals with odd foreheads on my doorstep. They are speaking language that I don't understand and they keep saying your name over and over again. What should I tell them?

[Haleth]

Things I should have done while the site was down.

1. My taxes.
2. Prepare a wall for wall paper. It's been waiting almost a year.
3. Clean the house. (I have a house? That would explain the wall.)
4. Work on the assignment my boss generously handed me to do...at home.
5. Work on at least one of the umpteen fics that are crowding my brain. (It would be nice to have some extra space in there.)
6. Chip the snow and ice off the walkway.

Needless to say, I didn't do any of them.

I was too busy compulsively hitting the refresh button.

[ghettoelleth]

[DarkElfChilde]

Uhh, ghetto, I strangely had the same visitors with the odd foreheads just at my door, and they asked for you. I told them what's a ghetto...and they were pissed right, and then after they yelled at me, I told them to put some salt in their ass because they would get laid when they go back to the zoo and wouldn't act like idiots anymore. They didn't like that either...


They're coming for you because you stole their sacred tuna fish...


- DEC

[Haleth]

[DarkElfChilde]

[Haleth]

[SpaceWeavil]

What did I do? Other than annoy other members through emails and AIM, I watched 'The City's Edge' (nekkid Hugo movie) and then discovered Matrix Reloaded was showing on Sky Movies, so watched that. Wrote something like three chapters (one each from various fics) and played around with photo manip software. Oh, and I had an argument with my non-LOTR savvy friend about whether or not collecting action figures was dumb.

[DarkElfChilde]

I collect a lot of action figures...