I haven't really had the best week, partially because of running out of levothyroxine just before the pharmacy was closed for three days, so I nearly turned into Jack Dee. And yesterday, a combined effort at work finally uncovered that a bug that I had been tearing my insignificant hair out over was caused by an object comparison with a == - be careful, because it happens to everyone!

I have been spending far more time on the news feed page for Crystal Towers 2 than is frankly healthy, though, and it's really nice to see updates happening as they go past. I'm currently mustering up the courage to submit it to a couple of the bigger independent game sites. I've also been keeping my promise to work on it this year, forging ahead with level layout and beginning to draw up a tree of the eventual layout of the entire game. This is going to get finished.

To that end, I bought a new computer this morning. Or three bits of one, at least - thanks to everyone who responded in the various places I posted the suggestions (even if everyone on Facebook misread the title "Computer advice needed once again!" as "Please have a Macfest in this thread immediately!"). I went for almost exactly what I had posted, but with a Phenom instead of an Athlon. That should keep me going for a few years.

I think the state of the week is summarized best by a series of phone calls that I had to make to our Internet service provider recently, after we had no connection in the morning. In order:

1. Called the support line on the landline phone. Got as far as reading them my account number when the man told me I was breaking up really badly, so I said I would call back on my mobile.


2. Called the support line on my mobile phone and was redirected to the office in California. I was given a number to call to specifically get the one that was appropriate to where I lived.


3. Called the new number and got to a man who sounded very confused before revealing that he was in the Massachusetts sales office. He said he would put me through to support, but hung up instead.


4. Called the number again, went carefully back through the menus, found the right support option, got through to an actual person, turned around, looked at the router and then had to explain to her that I had spent so long on the phone that the Internet was now working and no further action was required.

Well, that's not very Comcastic, is it?