Hey man — in a momentary fog of stupidity yesterday morning, I reset your email password and then attempted to notify you by email that I had changed it. Pretty smart, huh? So I set the password back to what I thought it was originally, but in retrospect, I’m not sure I got [...]

I was writing up a big post here bitching about all the stuff that’s gone wrong today — read: basically everything — but nobody likes to listen to me bitch, so I deleted it and I’ll just keep it to myself. Instead, I have this breaking news: Today sucks. Thanks for coming, now [...]

From the word go, this day has seemed determined to test my patience.
This morning we were awakened by the ungodly sound of some sort of strange sawing, thumping, hammering combination that seemed to be coming from all around us. In fact, it’s coming from our neighbors. We live in an attached townhome, but [...]

I received my refurbished Xbox 360 back from Microsoft today, right on schedule. It was manufactured in early September, 2006 (so much for August…I guess I can’t count) and includes all three of the improvements one can reasonably expect from a 360 replacement these days:

It has the new GPU heatsink, which will hopefully prevent [...]

My wait for a replacement Xbox 360 may be coming to an end. Today my serial number was updated at the service tracking site, and it’s a real Xbox 360 serial number. I’ll apparently be getting a refurbished console whose original date of manufacture was between August 13th and August 19th, 2006. [...]

In retrospect, it all started last Wednesday. I was in a cerulean blue funk, feeling stuck in a predictable rut of work, and knowing that any real payoff for my efforts was still a distance away. My Xbox 360 was “in the shop,” if you’ll excuse the colloquialism, preventing me from unwinding with [...]

Holy balls. I’ve just spent about three hours playing BioShock. It is…well, there are no words for what I am feeling.
Can I have my 360 back now? Pleeeeeease?