Oh, brain.
Comes up with the strangest ideas, that one.
FFXI had maintenance and an update today. SE changed things at some point to allow us to download the new files before the servers were actually back up and running, which was nice of them. It used to be that we'd all end up camping the [Play] button and then all crash each other out and break the game as we all tried to download several thousand files over the next day or so. Now we can at least get some of that out of the way before the game's back. So after maintenance started, I logged in, downloaded the files, and logged out. Whoo, files.
And then I went around, did some homework, did some reading, did some random tidying, ate some food... the usual.
Maintenance was extended two hours (nnnot that I was waiting for - okay fine there's a quest I was on that I'd really been enjoying the story for, and I really wanted to finish it to see the ending...) (IT WAS DELIGHTFUL AND WONDERFUL AND ALSO FULL OF THOSE ABSURDITIES WE'VE ALL COME TO EXPECT FROM SE THAT STILL ALWAYS CATCH US OFF GUARD SOMEHOW), but things are back up and running now, and people are busy being slightly horrified by SE's choice of items needed to increase the gobbiebag size (oh god why), and it is only now when I am sitting at my computer checking things I would normally have checked much earlier in the day (like, oh, my e-mail?) that it occurs to me that somehow my brain equated "FFXI is down for maintenance" with "there is no internet." I went and checked a couple pages, was disappointed in the lack of updates, and then immediately though, 'well, of course no one's updated. The system's been down all day.'
I wonder if I always do that, or if this is just a random exception.
Speed edit:
Oh god the post-update/maintenance drama is always some of the best stuff in the world. ♥ XD
Also. There's someone on the forum who has a signature that always makes me both laugh and swear simultaneously.
"You are now consciously breathing."
FFXI had maintenance and an update today. SE changed things at some point to allow us to download the new files before the servers were actually back up and running, which was nice of them. It used to be that we'd all end up camping the [Play] button and then all crash each other out and break the game as we all tried to download several thousand files over the next day or so. Now we can at least get some of that out of the way before the game's back. So after maintenance started, I logged in, downloaded the files, and logged out. Whoo, files.
And then I went around, did some homework, did some reading, did some random tidying, ate some food... the usual.
Maintenance was extended two hours (nnnot that I was waiting for - okay fine there's a quest I was on that I'd really been enjoying the story for, and I really wanted to finish it to see the ending...) (IT WAS DELIGHTFUL AND WONDERFUL AND ALSO FULL OF THOSE ABSURDITIES WE'VE ALL COME TO EXPECT FROM SE THAT STILL ALWAYS CATCH US OFF GUARD SOMEHOW), but things are back up and running now, and people are busy being slightly horrified by SE's choice of items needed to increase the gobbiebag size (oh god why), and it is only now when I am sitting at my computer checking things I would normally have checked much earlier in the day (like, oh, my e-mail?) that it occurs to me that somehow my brain equated "FFXI is down for maintenance" with "there is no internet." I went and checked a couple pages, was disappointed in the lack of updates, and then immediately though, 'well, of course no one's updated. The system's been down all day.'
I wonder if I always do that, or if this is just a random exception.
Speed edit:
Oh god the post-update/maintenance drama is always some of the best stuff in the world. ♥ XD
Also. There's someone on the forum who has a signature that always makes me both laugh and swear simultaneously.
"You are now consciously breathing."