Christmas 360
Christmas, round 5. My brother and his girlfriend arrived just hours after my parents left today. It was a good visit, but due to various schedule conflicts and illness, our Christmas gatherings this year have been pretty scattered. We're having our 5th family-oriented gift exchange (with my bro and his woman) tonight. Wow. Then it will be done. Officially.
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In other news, Nick at EBgames is da man. He hooked me up with an XBOX 360 2 days before Christmas. After some cancellations and Nick's desire to see me have an XBOX before some family got their SECOND one before Christmas, he hooked me up. So it's been a serious gaming holiday around our house. Been playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty2, King Kong, PGR, Perfect Dark: Zero, and Condemned. W00t.
Now I've got to get set back up online and figure out how to use Windows Media Connect to synchronize the XBOX with my PC.
Even J-mo...casual dismisser of all things console...seems intrigued by this new system. Maybe - somehow (if J-mo gets one and I can hook up with Scott) - we can get a local XBOX live communty going.
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On a weirder note, I got to watch a tow truck haul off our 2004 Mazda6 today. Good grief. Nothing like seeing a car with only 8900 miles on it getting towed. Apparently, the fuel pump went bad or something. It started, then died before I got 100 feet from the driveway, so my brother and I pushed it back. Sadly, right now the old '68 Mustang in the garage runs better than the Mazda...well, it starts anyway.
Just feels like a lousy epilogue to what's been a GREAT christmas vacation so far. I hope they've got parts in stock, or it'll be Tuesday or Wednesday before I see the Mazda in our own driveway again. At least I'll get hooked up on a rental in the meantime...
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On a note I would call different, my brother will be drumming for us Sunday morning. Should be interesting to actually play music in church with him. In all the years he's played drums, I don't think I've EVER jammed with him. So tonight's rehearsal ought to be fun...
Anyway,
Peace...
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In other news, Nick at EBgames is da man. He hooked me up with an XBOX 360 2 days before Christmas. After some cancellations and Nick's desire to see me have an XBOX before some family got their SECOND one before Christmas, he hooked me up. So it's been a serious gaming holiday around our house. Been playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty2, King Kong, PGR, Perfect Dark: Zero, and Condemned. W00t.
Now I've got to get set back up online and figure out how to use Windows Media Connect to synchronize the XBOX with my PC.
Even J-mo...casual dismisser of all things console...seems intrigued by this new system. Maybe - somehow (if J-mo gets one and I can hook up with Scott) - we can get a local XBOX live communty going.
...
On a weirder note, I got to watch a tow truck haul off our 2004 Mazda6 today. Good grief. Nothing like seeing a car with only 8900 miles on it getting towed. Apparently, the fuel pump went bad or something. It started, then died before I got 100 feet from the driveway, so my brother and I pushed it back. Sadly, right now the old '68 Mustang in the garage runs better than the Mazda...well, it starts anyway.
Just feels like a lousy epilogue to what's been a GREAT christmas vacation so far. I hope they've got parts in stock, or it'll be Tuesday or Wednesday before I see the Mazda in our own driveway again. At least I'll get hooked up on a rental in the meantime...
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On a note I would call different, my brother will be drumming for us Sunday morning. Should be interesting to actually play music in church with him. In all the years he's played drums, I don't think I've EVER jammed with him. So tonight's rehearsal ought to be fun...
Anyway,
Peace...
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