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

by the way that was my weekend in case you hadnt figured that much out!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Longman" <andy@...>
To: <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:00 PM
Subject: 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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