What Do You Mean I Have No Internet Connection?

"Really?" I snapped at my beloved Mac. "You have got to be kidding me. No, seriously, this is so not the time for you to be messing with me."

But is there ever a good time to lose one's connection to the outside world? I think not.

Despite yelling, threatening, begging, still the words YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET burned into my retinas. I considered a down and out temper-tantrum, wasn't above throwing myself onto the ground and pounding the floor while screaming, kind of like...