I realized just how much fun the chat room can be. Gonna have to make my presence felt there a little more often.
Have you voted for your favorite, huggable Mullinator today?
I tried the chat room for the first time also. It can be fun. But it’s unpredictable. Once I went there and no one was in, another time several people were “in” the room but also chatting in other rooms, so they weren’t really there.
I discovered how addicted I was to this message board. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
“I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket
I hear ya MoosieGirl. Damn I’ve been getting a whole lot of work done.
I discovered that if I sat in front of the computer and prayed to the computer gods, I could give myself a headache.
I also discovered that there really is nothing on the tv to watch.
Shadowfox
“The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson
I doscovered that I really can do all ten loads of laundry in one day if I’m not distracted by the board . . . .
-Melin
I discovered my employer actually expects me to do something while I am at work. You mean I dont get paid to surf the dope?
knuckle-dragging hose mongerer.
SDMB Self-Righteous Clique
I discovered a man…Oooooooo!
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Whoohooo!!! Details!!
Lacey
“Casey got hit with a bucket o’ ****
and the baaannnnddd plaaayyed onnnnnnn…”
haven’t known him long enough to give details… can just say at this point… he is much better than chocolate!
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
I discovered that LBMB is a poor substitute.
Tinker
I discovered I could live without the SDMB.
But not happily.
I gotta agree with Moosie and Rysdad. Boooooorrrrrrrrring!!!
I discovered that I don’t come here often enough to notice the board was down
… or hacked
I hafta check my mail more often…
I discovered . . .
. . . that a trivia site I hadn’t visited in ages was still fun: http://www.ntn.com
. . . that http://www.chickenhead.com , specifically the bannertown part, is very funny.
. . . that http://www.adcritic.com and it’s most popular commercial, Whazzzup? will make me laugh until I cry. You gotta check it out.
I already knew I was addicted to this board, so I didn’t need the downtime to tell me that.
But by the end of the week, I’d recalled ways that I used to spend my time. Including getting work done at work - which reminds me, I liked that blurb they put up on the main page:
It took me most of the week, but I figured out how to do this ‘work’ stuff again. 
My wife enjoyed having more of my company in the evenings, and I hers. (No, I didn’t tell her the board was down! There’s a time to score free points, and this was one of them.)
I think I learned that maybe a little less time here is (gasp!) a good thing for me right now. I’m not gonna go cold turkey, but it’s time to quit pretending this is my life. I’ve already got one, and it wants me back. 
“Living in this complex world of the future is not unlike having bees live inside your head.” - F. Scott Firesign
::sob!:: Y’all are back!
I’ve missed you man!
Boy, talk about a really bad time for the Board to go down-work’s been slow and I’ve had to find something else to do. Luckily, things have been hot and hairy here in Office Gossip Department, so my Finance Manager and I spent most of the day raging against our psycho nut boss. She walked out yesterday. Quit. Left. Good for her. I’m next.
God, I’ve got a LOT of lint in my belly button…
I’d spend the first part of my day reading the news on the internet rather than message board posts.
The frustrating part was wanting to respond to an article and realizing that there was no such mechanism!