It’s no secret that things have been, well, tough for me lately. To review:

1. I’ve broken up with my boyfriend.
2. My car, due to a piece of debris I hit in the road, has a blowout and has been in the shop since June 21st. You see, my car is one of the few VWs made in Germany, so we are waiting for a part to come from Deutschland.
3. I lost my job.
And, the HUMDINGER! 4. My beloved iBook passed away this Saturday. I thought it would all be okay after a quick trip to the Apple Store, but, they confirmed my worst fears – bye bye iBook. So, I opted for plan B and headed off to my storage unit to pick up my geriatric old iMac, purchased in 2001 when I was a junior at PSU. I was lucky enough to find both the power cord and the keyboard, both very smartly packed in unlabled separate boxes. But, when I arrived home and plugged it in to my modem. NO IP ADDRESS.

A couple phone calls to Comcast did NOTHING to remedy this. A visit to the Comcast Service Center to register my modem to my account did NOTHING to remedy this. A phone call to Apple did NOTHING to remedy this (but mainly because I didn’t want to pay $49.95 for Apple Care for my very very out of warranty iMac.) Finally, I called Zane. And, it so happened that he answered his phone, expressed his condolences over by late iBook, and gave me a couple ideas. I expressed to him that I thought Comcast would only allow one IP address per modem, but he said he didn’t think that was it. BUT THEN, he called me back minutes later with someone he was working with who is an APPLE EXPERT. Hell to the freaking yeah. So, imagine how annoyed I was to find out that I was right. Comcast only does allow one IP address per modem. So resetting my modem and letting it sit unplugged for a half hour or so solved the problem. Obnoxious that Comcast failed to mention this nugget of wisdom. His friend was completely helpful and got me back online.

So, what gives? When is enough, enough? Don’t get me wrong, I really know that my problems aren’t all that bad. There are people trapped in mines, underwater, living in war zones. But, I also don’t know how much more I can take?