I manage to go buy a brand new car.
Ok, sure, I’d been thinking about one for a while - and come to the decision that I could afford one. So it’s not entirely the fault of the boards going down.
It’s a 2006 Ford Focus, toreador red. Very pretty. And for the first time since 1998, I have a car payment to budget for. And I’m sitting here with my budget program open - and soon I’ll set up the automatic payment from my checking account so I don’t even have to think about mailing the payment in.
I managed to actually gasp get work done at work! 
Actually, it was prboasbly good they were down, sicne I jsut got back from a few datys off for the holiday and had a good amount of work I had to catch up on.
Didn’t manage to be much more productive than usual, since I was compulsively checking the boards every 15 minutes or so to see if they were back up.
That’s when the Admins & Mods conduct their lurid, ritual, virgin sacrifices to appease Cecil Adams, Pele, and the Hamster Gods.
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I stared at the error message, and pretended I was reading something funny in MPSIMS.
I ended up spending a decent amount of time on Fark.com, something I haven’t really done since I started injecting SDMB intravenously.
I did laundry and posted some pics for my inlaws to see. And surfed some other sites. And played some games. Not as exciting a buying a car, but it’s the best I can do.
Actually, we gave that up a few years ago when we ran out of virgins.
Damn, I’ve become a Dope Fiend! Totally addicted, I just stared at the error message, waiting for my fix. Ahhhh, at last. 
Penis ensues.
I cleaned my house, did laundry, ironed and made a big pot of jambalya for friends who are coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Dang! It made a day off work actually productive.
Good thing the board is back up so I’ll have something to do at work tomorrow.
Born Again Virgins. It’s like getting a certified, pre-owned car.
Oh, I forgot. Congrats on the new car Lsura!
I went shopping! Actual, out of my chair, facing the mindless throng shopping and everything.
Ok, so light bulbs and next year’s holiday cards aren’t real exciting, but they were all on sale so that’s something.
Yay on the new car Lsura! I’ve never quite grokked why ‘bullfighter’ is a shade of red, but it’s a purty color if a somewhat confuzzling name.
Went to FARK for ten minutes, and then wept.
Ooooh, we have a 2001 Ford Focus.
Great car.
Except the farking cup holders are Pure Evil©. YMMV.
I worked on my crochet and flower loom project for a while, and then took a nap.
Cup holder, at all, are something I appreciate in America. But that assumes everything comes in a predictable dimension.
I tried to fix a tiny belt.
I have a 12" Abe Sapien figurine that has a variant head and changeable clothes, so I switch him around every once in awhile. Well, his flimsy vinyl belt broke awhile ago, but I happened to have leather that was exactly the same colour, so I made him a new belt. It looked almost identical too! As I was trying to put it on him, the crappy ass plastic belt buckle broke. 
That I can’t fix, so he’s now beltless. Eventually I’ll order another figurine (I know I was inviting trouble by taking him out of the package, but he just looks so cool posed on my desk in an action-like position…
I hung around mostly at SA, did a little work (at my job, no less…miracles never cease!), kept checking back here, and then went home. Well, I went home after I was stuck in traffic for over an hour, and took my kid to a friend’s house. In fact, I’m just now getting home.
Good on ya for the new car, Lsura. I want a new one myself…maybe you’ve inspired me to believe I can tough it out with a car payment for the first time in oh gosh…five years or longer. I do like not having those, though.