While waiting for the SDMB...

In My Humble Opinion
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So dopers: what do you do while you’re waiting for a thread to be displayed, or your reply to be posted?

I go through phases - currently I’m addicted to solitare but on one occasion I was able to go cook a hot dinner whilst waiting for a thread to load:dubious:

Cheers,
DC

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Hearts - approximately 100 games per night.

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Phew! So I’m not the only one!

Ever do anything else?

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Work!

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How ironic. The boards have been fine all night, then I click on a thread called “While waiting for the SDMB…” I find myself waiting for the SDMB.
The first thing I do is check the news at news.bbc.com

And then I’ll sit back and give my mouse-arm a rest.

Then I’ll surf the 5 TV channels (no ‘channel 5’ the 5th channel is the SKY feed)

Then back to the SDMB.

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How ironic :slight_smile:

manic evil, evil laughter

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work.

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All these people saying ‘work’ are making me feel guilty…I have big exams in about a month and should be revising my ass off :frowning:

Maybe if I read lecture notes while waiting for the SDMB?

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Freecell

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Having said that I’m no longer quite so concerned about my solitare habit having seen that it appears to be quite common:D

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Generally, solitaire. But sometimes I open up a new browser window and look at random internet stuff while I’m waiting.

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Cards, like hearts or solitaire. Sometimes I read threads I saved, if I get organized. Lately things have been fairly zippy around here. Knocks on wood

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I usually either keep a book/magazine within reach to keep me busy while I’m waiting or bring up another browser window.

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I have a toddler… she keeps me quite occupied while waiting… Actually the boards usually load and then I get back to them while she’s otherwise occupied :slight_smile:

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Surf the net

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Read, I usually have a paperback in reach.

Have another window open, say interesting-people or the register or robotwisdom or museumofhoaxes; trying snopes but it’s slower than the sdmb, at least tonight.

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me, I check my bank account and adversaries.

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I usually pop over to ESPN to see if there’s anything I haven’t read and/or watch some TV

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Snort!! Giggle!!!

Damn you!! you stole my answer!!!

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Being a Brit-doper i rarely have to worry about it being sluggish during the day :smiley:

So during the 30ish minute down-time period around 10am (our time) i do all my work for the day.