My Week definatly vent time

[sheepdog 10]

A week ago today, lightening ran in on my computer and modem and toasted them. The very next morning, we got lightening struck again, this time it took out my telephone. I got my computer in the shop right away, we have a good guy here that works on computers and he's reasonable and fast too. My computer was ready to go friday evening. But then I had to deal with the phone company. I have DSL from my local phone company. This was just early thursday afternoon, but they told me if I was in a hurry to get a modem, I would have to pay an extra $22 shipping and they would OVERNIGHT it to me, but I wouldn't get it until MONDAY!!!! 4 damn days to get an overnight????? I tried everything, even asked them to see if a service man had one on him I could go and pick up and no, they couldn't do that, so I asked if they had any shops where I could pick one up, and they had 2, one didn't answer the phone and the other was over 60 miles away, but I didn't care so we made a flying trip to get there before they closed and got another modem. Thought I had it whipped, but then when I hooked everything up my modem wouldn't stay connected to the internet. 2 more days of fighting with the phone company and 2 trips by servicemen and now I am more or less back to speed. Needless to say it has been a very aggrivating and expensive week.