Tribe is down

[Lourdes]

and it says it will be back up at 5:15 PM.
It is now 6:05 PM and no tribe.
So, where's all the refugees at?
Don't tell me I'm in the wrong camp! How will I survive?
AAHHHHHHHHH

[amiablehermit]

Well, back to mouse nesting, which is also a very good thing to do.

[Shannon Q]

>Well, back to mouse nesting, which is also a very good thing to do.

What with the discussion about embroidery, I read this as 'mouse knitting.' However do you get them to sit still while you finish threading in their tails?

I do need and miss tribe. I have good friends there, and good writing there. It's an actual community, full of people I genuinely like interacting with. I did pay for the service last year during the last panic, just so I could continue hanging out there. And I'm pissed as hell not even necessarily so much about the utter failure to deliver anything that was promised--people are human and resources are limited. What pisses me off more than anything is the utter lack of professional communication (and yes, managing user expectations and responding to user concerns cordially and promptly). Instead, the only communication avenue is a gang of howling fan monkeys on the gold star tribe, who hurl thuggish insults at anybody who dare complain or ask questions, in defense of the powers that they perceive be.

[amiablehermit]

I call the gold stars "sheriffs".

[Max]

I spend too much time online anyway.
This prolonged outage had made me realize that I don't need Tribe.
The time I spend online is time I don't spend interacting in person--with the bodies present in the same space at the same time, with all the nuance of vocal and facial expression, body language and touch. If I can't taper off, I'll have to quit cold turkey.

[amiablehermit]

Well, as long as you have the present bodies to with whom to interact as you wish. I have found that there are present bodies that really don't understand or hear what I say, or the ideas are of no interest to them, or the whole thing is inconvenient. Getting online has pretty much solved that for me because I can find many virtually present bodies that actually are interested in the same things. So, perhaps, you should not be so hard on yourself. There may be very good reasons for your doing what you do.

[Max]

Thanks for that, Danielle.
It is a relief to be around people whom I find more congenial for the same reason as you. I just don't want to be completely absent to "the others." :-)

[amiablehermit]

Oh, you won't. They have a way of getting under your skin.

[amiablehermit]

Anyway, the whole point is that this is certainly no catastrophe -- a bit of an inconvenient nuisance, but my precious antique kitty can be that, too. I mean, here we are together. And we can amuse our few selves rather well, I would think.

[elaine~]

I have valuable snarky quips that must be released to the world, I need tribe for this!

[elaine~]

Last people I am going to release snark at is the Postpartum Mamma's group.

[Shannon Q]

Yeah, that seems kinda dangerous. They'd come at you swinging dirty diapers and attempting to garrote you with their milk-stained t-shirts, and leave other organic carnage everywhere.

[^Rhino!]

You're NOT in the wrong camp, we're here for you. You WILL survive.

So sayeth the Rhino.....so shall it be.