Of course, I’m not a mod/admin.
While we mere mortals praise Jerry to the sky, we humble dirt-eaters cannot possibly imagine how it would be to be a mod who, say, has an hour free at lunch time but can’t go to the board to do housekeeping chores 'cause it would just be frustrating waiting for pages to load.
I just want to know how the new board speed has changed your routine/life. This question is addressed only to mods/admins.
In this aspect we’re no different from any other user, it’s a pleasure to be able to go to the board and read threads in a timely fashion.
And, excepting those problems we had Friday/Saturday, all seems to be well. The real test, of course, will be in the full court press of a working day.
But to answer your question, certainly when you’re able to do necessary things in less time, that leaves perhaps time for . . . extras. Doing other maintenance things that have had to be put off . . . looking at wish lists . . . reading for fun. (Which I vaguely recall doing, once upon a time.)
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Really? With me, it’s the other way round.
With the slower speeds, I had all the time in the world to check out every single, errrr, motorcycle website out there. Now, I’m moderating all evening, and I find my, well, need for motorbike pictures unsatisfied.
But on the whole, I’d say the board speed improvement is a good thing. 
The way it has changed my life:
On this professional e-mail list to which I subscribe at work, on Friday people discussed “what does SOS mean?”, “what’s the origin of OK?” and “the whole nine yards”. I was able to sneak onto the board, find C K Dexter Haven’s excellent staff report on SOS, the Straight Dope Columns on OK and the whole nine yards, and even look up some threads in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” and “Comments on Staff Reports” with discussions of the columns, to help lay some misconceptions to rest. (One person is saying “the whole nine yards” is the length of the ammunition belt of a World War I Maxim machine gun.) As a matter of fact, I am using your information, samclem, that the first mention in print of “the whole nine yards” was in 1966.