# Things you can do while the network is down.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892 "2000-01-19T19:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/1 "2000-01-19T19:20:00Z")
Life ends when the network is down…I’m lost. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/2 "2000-01-19T19:29:00Z")
Paint your fingernails with white-out. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/3 "2000-01-19T19:40:00Z")
go talk to other people who aren’t working because the network is down? because of some construction next door we had all electricity to everything in a several block radius go down–twice in 10 days. i am in the middle of a large engineering group, but there is also a large finance group in the building. we not only couldn’t work, we couldn’t even see where we were going in the innermost parts of the buildings. even took the emergency lights & every kind of surge protector. of course, the lawyers were writing up compalints as soon as we found out where to send them! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/4 "2000-01-19T19:50:00Z")
create personal excel files, keeps you looking busy. I have done my budget, My CD collection, video collection. Planned parties, etc. Good for polishing up excel skills too * * * If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun. -Benjamin Franklin ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/5 "2000-01-19T20:07:00Z")
If someone brought a paper, read the funnnies and do the crossword puzzle! That’s what I did last time the server was down 🙂 Is it the whole system or will you still have interent access? Cuz, y’know, then there’s always _that_. 😉 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/6 "2000-01-19T20:08:00Z")
Once when our network went down I spent about half an hour creating a 5 player, 5 card stud poker game in Excel. Gotta love those random number generators. * * * My sig line is currently unavailable. Please check this post in 1 hour when we resume our broadcast day. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/7 "2000-01-19T20:19:00Z")
That’s why you keep some games on your local drive! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/8 "2000-01-19T20:31:00Z")
You can stare at the screen and drool until it comes back up. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/9 "2000-01-19T20:38:00Z")
I’ve been drooling at my email screen all morning… one of the servers took a dive wiping us out… _sigh_ * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/10 "2000-01-19T20:50:00Z")
Install Netzero as a back-up! Works for me… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/11 "2000-01-19T21:30:00Z")
Our network goes down and we can’t take phone calls… I hate that. Really. As for what to do? Nerf Guns. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/12 "2000-01-20T01:45:00Z")
Whatever you do, don’t tell your network administrator, chances are he/she has heard it from 30 of the 35 people in the office. Don’t whine either, the person usually already knows the situation that the company is in. Don’t pace around the office, it only annoys your NA. And last but not least, once the network is up and running, do thank that network administrator, that person just saved the company thousands upon thousands of dollars (well in my situation) by getting it working in an hour instead of 4 hours 🙂 BTW, there is always filing, cleaning out your desk of leftover candy from last years Valentines Day, help straighten up the office kitchen, start that paper clip chain you have been putting off, start a paper football match with your co-worker in the next cube, ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-while-the-network-is-down/12892/13 "2000-01-20T04:12:00Z")
Not the network, but our phone system shut down for 2 hours today. I’m in hotel reservations. Our manager was in CPR training all day, so the other guy in the office and I had an insult war. And Mgr thinks we don’t communicate! * * * “I’d think God would want to LIMIT my powers.”