Some random crap.
Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Wow. Lotta stuff has been happening lately. I’m busy, I don’t update my blog, yadda yadda yadda.
So yeah, my Xbox definitely bucked the kicket. Called the support number, dealt with some chick from India try to walk me through reviving it for 20 minutes before she finally gave up and decided that, yes, indeed, it had given up the ghost. They actually returned it pretty quickly this time… took about a week and a half or so, much better than the month it took last time. I was actually halfway hoping that they’d just trash it and send me a refurb unit, one with the newer motherboard design (which has HDMI output, and much more resilient heat dissipation). But no, they just replaced the board/heatsink and sent me back my original unit. I really hope this one doesn’t die on me again.
Also, while the Xbox was being repaired, my best friend called me and said that his nearest Best Buy had Wiis in stock, and wanted to know if I wanted him to buy me one. I live in the Dallas, TX area, which is (obviously) a rather large market. And here it is, a year and a half after the Wii was released, and I have yet to actually see one in stock, anywhere. He lives in a smaller market that has apparently been saturated, so one could actually purchase one without having to fellate the nearest Gamestop clerk. Needless to say, I jumped on it. I was currently sans one Xbox, and needed something to do with myself.
Turns out, the Wii apparently has a really fucking touchy power brick. I was seriously about to go ape shit last weekend. Not 2 weeks after my Xbox was returned to me, I’d invited a friend over to play some games. And we go upstairs to play Super Smash Bros. (which I had bought for the occasion, since I really didn’t have any other good multiplayer games, Wii, Xbox, or otherwise). And the Wii won’t turn on. At all. It just sat there, looking at me. Mocking me. We unplugged it, plugged it back in, let it sit there and think about what it’d done. Nothing. We ended up playing Gears of War for a bit, and going to a movie. While we were there, my (lovely|pregnant|puking) wife did a bit of Googling, and figured out that if you unplugged everything for 15 minutes or so, the power brick would reset itself, and if that was the problem, it would fix it. Luck was with me, because that ended up being the problem. Our power had gone out for a couple minutes earlier in the week, and it had apparently just overloaded the power brick. Said power brick had been behind (what I thought was) a fairly good surge protector, but apparently that didn’t matter. Either the surge protector didn’t work, or the power brick is retarded. Anyway, everything is good now. Which is good, because I was about to get super pissed. Postscript… if the power brick is really that touchy, why in the hell did they not put a hard reset button on it?! Why do I have to unplug it and wait 15 minutes for it to reset itself?
One last thing. We have yet to go to the doctor. Our appointment is scheduled for June 24. But there’s no longer any question that we’re preggers. She still hasn’t done her girl-bleed thingy, she’s having mood swings, she’s having morning sickness, and she’s having fucking cravings. So yeah. Barring something bad happening, I am indeed procreating. So, hey, I gotta make light of some part of this, right? With that in mind, here we go, with the first installment of Craving Watch 2008!
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Blueberry muffins
Chicken pot pie
Egg McMuffins
Cheese popcorn
Strawberry shortcake
