Who says it's not easy to create a PC-Mac network?

Yesterday I made my first small home-network: my Mac connects to Internet through a PC with a wireless card. I did not have a router, but only two computers, a USB cable and a wireless card. I had to install the wireless card, connect the computers and create a bridge connection between the two. Finally, I had to allow the dial-up connection to share the internet via wireless.
It was fun reading about networks and setting up computers. :)
Who could have ever imagined that I would have to do this on my first day of Christmas break... after 22 hours of flight?...