Webcomics and T'Interweb in general.

Please note, this is not about time wasting, it's about what to do when there isn't anything more immediately demanding on your time.
At work, especially on nights or quiet days, we have quite alot of spare time. I had been using this to do more work on my NVQ and the job folders, but those are all done now. So the problem arises, what does one do with the time?
Should I try and carry on writing the story I've been working on for about three years (not sure how far I've got in words or chapters but I'm about 30% through the story), should I take a book in to read (problem, this will increase the number of books I read, which can become costly), should I surf the net for new and unusual things to do or should I take up the OU where I left off and try and improve myself. Or I could do something for the office.
Aside - here's one for you, the office has a whole PR and marketing department (not counting brand managers ;) ), whose job is to market the office to wider world. I mentioned to them that the Wikipedia page about the office is frankly pants and did they think it was worth improving, seeing how invasive the Wiki is these days. Their response was to invite me to write the article for them to have a look at. Now given that I'm almost complaining of having too much spare time on some shifts this may well seem fair but my point is that this is their job, they can get to all of the office, all of the little specialties, whereas I'm a forecaster in the north. In the outfield. One of those not too pleased with some recent events. Meh, aside ends here.
I would do the OU but there are enough other things on the horizon at the moment that would cause problems with that, so it's down to the internet!
I won't say I was there from the start with the net, in fact it was 97 before I saw my first web page, but we did use it alot at uni, so I was amongst the early adopters, but there's SO much of it. I've even edited pages on Wikipedia. I think I may have added some pages but I can't remember.
So to fill my free time, I was directed to the Order of the Stick (OOTS), and from there to the many wonderful worlds of web comics. WooHoo, goodbye spare time!!
Particular favourites are Gone with the Blastwave, Schlock Mercenary, Girl Genius, Flipside and Inverloch, but OOTS remains my favourite. If you've ever played any role play games (not that sort Beth!) you'll love it.
What worries me most about the comics, aside from the fact I get far too many of the jokes (I've only done one RPG that I can remember) is how often the characters remind me of my friends, from Captain Tagon in Schlock (scarily like Andi in looks and occasional directed violence - usually in my direction, but nothing like in intellect or current employment) to most of the cast of Girl Genius, I can relate to most of the players. What worries me is where I'll end up fitting in. Hoping for Kevyn, more likely somewhere between Durkon and Belkar.
One of the things I like about the wonderful worlds that people produce is that, okay, not all of them are brilliant, but someone's made the effort to create a story, and there are many, many of them out there.
Shifts just got shorter. Hurrah!