My Internet Away From Internet

Frantically searching for an internet-access CD to cart to Wisconsin, waiting until cat-fluids could be scrubbed from the carpet, stealing a phone cord, finding a phone jack behind the desk, realizing that said desk was the original Immovable Object as well as being impossible to disassemble, seeing husband attempt to drill through a solid inch of wood and electrocute himself, having everybody else give up on the whole idea, locating another phone jack, rearranging Christmas presents, carrying assorted computer parts into living room, installing AOL using personal information that I don't actually know, and using a ten-inch monitor: Pain in the Ass.

Having internet access at the in-laws': Priceless.