When I turned on my computer after I moved some furniture in my room on the 16th, I noticed that the built-in Ethernet connection to my computer, which connected to my cable modem, mysteriously stopped working. Even after I had reïnstalled the operating system, and even after I had successfully tested that same Internet connection on my father's laptop, my computer's Ethernet connection wouldn't coöperate. Today, I had to buy an Ethernet card for my computer, and when I restarted my computer before installing the card, the built-in Ethernet connection decides to work again! Now, I'm out $30 because of the quirks of my 5 1/2-year-old computer.
Anyway, what did I miss during my downtime?