I was on #straightdope a lot more, then I played around with the temp board, but only because I was desperate for some of the SDMB.
I chatted at #fathom. Constantly. Some of the funniest conversations I’ve ever had in my life. One night I was actually in pain from laughing too hard. Now I can’t remember what was so funny. D’oh.
Oh man, it got pretty ugly.
Although, now that I think about it, an upside to the SDMB winter would be that I was forced to leave the warm glowing comfort of my room.
Upon which I realized that I really did not like the college I was attending.
Upon which I began applying for possible transfer. 
I got a lot of work done.
I also did more work!
It was s-s-sooooo c-c-c-c-cold!
I did minimal posting at Fathom (Mahatma Coat) and minimal posting at the temp board (The Lonliest Monk). Mostly I went on with my life, worked and played with The Littlest Doper[sup]TM[/sup].
Of course, many dopers went over to Esprix’s place and constantly sat with him, mopping his brow with a cool cloth and rubbing his wrists. Sometimes they just held him and rocked slowly, speaking in soft, soothing tones.
Many more dopers held vigil on is front lawn. You’d be amazed at the amount of wax he has in his zoisia. ahem
Thankfully Opal and Una were there to offer me shelter from the storm. I felt welcome there, enough that I never felt the need to register over at the FDMB (Fake Dope Message Board).
Thankfully the blizzard has passed and all we have to deal with now are flurries of database errors.
I just missed it. I read some boards at Randi.org but never registered.
I didn’t want to cheat on the SDMB! I only looked, I didn’t touch!
I registered at Fathom. I still post there; it’s a cool place…
I spent some time in Fathom chat and #straightdope…
I spent a lot of time updating and reading at LiveJournal…
I got out of the house to jam a few times…
And I had a sex change operation.
No wait, that last one was a dream I had … sorry.
Lots of playstation 2. Oh and I actually worked while I was at work, kinda creepy actually. And I decided to get a piercing but not because of the SD being down.
What’s all this nonsensical talk about the SDMB being down? I mean, sure, March 17th dragged for what seemed like weeks, but all of a sudden, once we hit the 18th, the time just flew by.
Really. You’re all delusional.
Esprix
Well, what did I do? I spent a bit of time at the HipMama forums
It’s primarily a feminist parenting site, but it works for me 'cuz there are a lot of politically right-on folk there, and I must say it even has an edge over my beloved SDMB in one regard – Everyone there understands that the statement “George W. Bush is a moron” is completely uncontroversial. 
You can utter it in confidence without being accused of hating America. By anyone. It rocked.
Two things were kind of sour, though.
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a small proportion of people accused me of being misogynist, and probably (sometimes unequivocably) a rapist and abuser. It turned into a big stinky flamewar, and was horribly divisive and destructive.
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despite the rough bits, I felt really connected to the place, in a short time, and got some really good personal advice there, and got talked down off a virtual ledge in a way that I never would have thought possible w/ a message board situation. (Intense family stuff-- the whole parental mortality thing. Be thankful -you guys- missed it.) Anyway, at the height of my HipMama dependancy (and believe me, the place is web-based Crack,) the board went down.
It’s still down.
When it goes back up, I believe I will ask the mods if it’s okay for me to reregister w/ a gender-neutral name, so I can do things like describe an argument as a “furball” without people telling me my language betrays my inherent sexism, because “furball” sounds like “hairball”, and “hairballs” are associated with cats, and a fight between women is sometimes called a “catfight.” (That reminds me, you know who I missed the most, of all the SDMB crowd? Our old friend, “:rolleyes:”)
But man, although hM really helped me through the SDMB withdrawal, after it went down, I was afraid to even look at another message board. I felt like friggin’ Typhoid Mary.
Ran my own Board, and dealt with an increase in membership of 33% or so.
Had a major change in my life which will improve both my self-worth and my industry-worth.
Visited my home in the UK for a while.
Did a lot of work very successfully.
Contacted an attorney to see if I could file a nuisance lawsuit to try and bankrupt someone who is continuing to slander me online.
Oh, just the usual.
I meditated a lot. I discovered I can create a sensation much like flying if I do it long enough. Really. Try it. Just make sure your eyes are doing that little ‘retracted back into the skull’ bit, otherwise, it won’t work. I also did a bit of writing and stepped over to the temporary board for a bit. I got through it rather well, despite the maniacal voices in my skull and my attempts to hold a seance to log on and post.