Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Why has White Wolf been absent? Here\'s the gory details...

You think YOU'VE ahd a bad weekend??!!
how about, breaking up with your girlfriend, getting food poisoning and not
eating for three days whilst throwing up 4 times your own body weight every
hour and then crashing your motorbike while trying to get home from work
causong about £850 worth of damage to the bike and buggerin your leg up bad
enough to not be able to walk let alone play football for the work' 5a side
team!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "White Wolf" <cmdrwhitewolf@...>
To: <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Why has White Wolf been absent? Here's the gory
details...
> OOC - To borrow a phrase from Alota - "Soz, Everybody".
>
> I've been *real busy* the past few days. I've been hit with what I
> call 'one of those weekends you can *only wish* were a nightmare
> instead of being real'. First, I found out that not one, not two,
> But *THREE* pc's died at the same time. And while working on one of
> said machines trying to get it back in working order, a CD gets a
> little homicidal and spits out of of drive spinning at full speed,
> whizzing towards me (causing me to dodge out of the way) while it
> practically shatters itself against a wall. While I'm cleaning up
> that mess, I get a troubleshooting call from a user who wants me to
> walk her through the steps of hooking up a laptops "printer port",
> Only to to find out after wasting plenty of time, that the user
> *MEANT* hook up the NETWORK PORT... And the cherry topper for all
> this? When I decided to do things the 'speedy way' and send my BD
> game post from a nearby cheapo dos email terminal (instead of with a
> fancy windows pc via the web posting method like I normally do), I
> later get a call from one of the techs I regularly work with at my
> companies ISP, to inform me that thier Email server which I sent the
> message through just gave up the ghost and probably took the days
> worth of email messages with it...
>
> Grimacing, (because I have no copy of what I sent), I crossed my
> fingers hoping that it sent my BD gamepost on before remanding itself
> to the digital abyss and went to work stamping out the other fires
> this new problem was causing. Well, after catching up with the BD
> messages, I find that it didn't make it. So, I'll be doing up a
> *revised* post from what I can remember of my 'lost' game post!
> <Insert sounds of me grumbling and kicking myself for trying to do
> things the 'speedy way' here>
>
> L8tor!
> - Tim/White Wolf
>
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