IRE Asks: How do you deal with internet downtime?

Usb tethering has recently gained my love. I normally use powerline ethernet since the wireless reception in my room is terribad, but some internet > no internet. It's because of this I don't even have a regular wireless card in my pc, so I make do.

I start to go through withdrawl and get the shakes after just a few hours being parted.

backup games and books and.. well, you can always clean the house

offline on my combat system.

...that usually means a lot of other things could be down too, like TV, cable, DVDs. So I usually resort to reading by flashlight, in a snuggie to keep warm.

razzle on iphone 4s

Nothing like the sweet sounds of Boston's favorite band to get me amped to get back in

And then I write a letter about how angry I am!

read a book

I play Skyrim or fallout alot.

Until my internet went down a few weeks back, I never knew about this amazing world of wonder and magic called the outside world. Only visible from my basement window it always intruiged me but I never felt the need to leave my small, dusty, dark, basement. I went outside, and it was wonderful, everything was so crisp and clear, the greens were greener and the colour shading was just amazing. I really do enjoy it. However, due to lack of intersting side quests, easy ways to level ones character stats, and large amounts of grinding required for income to purchase items to keep the character alive, I decided to leave it be, perhaps I'll dust it off again in a month or two.

Me: 2

Router/Modem: 0

Books/TV

derp

to tell the truth it never happened to me yet..

Re-discover that I have rl friends, and that there's an outside world. But then I get sunburned.

Work on my model railroad.  Or go fishing if the lakes aren't frozen over.

cry tears of blood and cut my way slowly into an new reality which has internet... it has yet to work, but there you go.

hum

credit

Never a shortage of stuff to play.

Charity and such, but that's rare for me to even leave ma house

Stare at computer screen

Pushups or something.

clean place, walk dog, cook food, make sexytime.

I curl up into a ball and wait for it to end.

assume fetal position and cry till i go to sleep

read the forums or search the cache of google to read the third part of seleucar history..

Sleep play!

Cry because I live in the middle of no where.

Half the time now I just write something for my city's library if the internet goes.

Depends if I was about to die or not. :P

murder.

I deal with downtime by shedding tears.

lots of books.

Read. ;)

sleep woooo, i mean what

There is only one correct answer, sleep so you can wake up in a couple of hours and make up the time lost, you slackers!

and the ocassional study.

I get done whatever I've been procrastinating in order to play Lusternia.

curse and swear, what else can you do accept it and realize that you just lost either the spar, koth, xp or whatever you were doing at that moment, once I soulripped and lost my ic wife so yeah hehe

internet cafe

Wonder about the stuff I'm missing now, thinking what I might have been able to accomplish now. Then, distract myself with a book, or tv and check every half hour to see if my internet's back!

Depends on the duration. Usually I spend my free time playing an offline game. For downtime that is longer than normal, I might read a book!

House reqs saved on my computer so whenever I have Internet downtime, I work on those!

being a whiny *bleep*

good Oatmeal comic about this.  Boils down to "no internet, do something else; slow internet, curse the gods!"

.. sleep. Yes, I do.

Bleh

detective dramas

When my internet fails...I happen to be lucky enough to be close enough to the library I can catch the wi-fi from my bedroom. When that doesn't work either I read. I hate the library connection though. My library logs you out of wi-fi every hour and makes you log back in.

If I can't read though, because for some reason I was stupid enough to lose my reading glasses again, and my eyes hurt I get in the kitchen and start cooking up a storm. I think, "Oh! This is a great time to be trying out these thousands of recipes I have lying around!"