Back in Business

My replacement Xbox 360 finally arrived last night.  It was delivered in the same coffin packaging that I sent mine to them in.  I opened it up and quickly turned it upside down to read the born on date.  The console gaming gods were not smiling down on me.  My replacement 360’s born on date is 11/10/2005.  And since I don’t have an extended warranty and can’t buy one at this point, they are only covering the replacement 360 under warranty for one month.  I would much rather have a April or newer edition so this one might be put under some heavy testing to make sure it is up to snuff.

When I plugged everything back up and powered on the console, I had the new dashboard update to download.  I checked that out for awhile.  Having the music available continuous while tooling around in the arcade is quite nice.  The music stutters a little bit when loading up Oblivion because Oblivion likes to take control and play their own symphonic masterpieces.  Speaking of Oblivion, nobody is playing this anymore according to my friends list.  When I last played back in May, 25-50% of people on my friends list were in Oblivion.  Last night, there were none.  By now, most people should have finished the game or at least played enough hours that they will have to file tax returns in Tamriel next year.  But considering there are no big name releases out this summer, I thought I would still see people playing this.

<Note: pre-emptive strike on Oblivion haters follows>

I know that there are some people on the website that claim that better games than Oblivion come out of their ass when they shit.  What the fuck is that about?  I can understand that maybe it is not your type of game or that the pacing is a little slow.  But to blatantly disregard it as a heap of dung laid down by some tool is fucking retarded.  Gamerankings has it listed as the #1 ranked 360 game (note: most CoD2 reviews were before the multiplayer update).  It is almost as if they are jealous that we have a good game to play and they feel the need to poo-poo on our parade.  Sling your poo elsewhere, my friends, the King is not listening to your blather.

Our poo is like Oblivion but 3.14159 times better.

We just finished up adding a screened in lanai to our back porch.  They poured a 10’x13’ concrete pad and built a screen around it.  I think the total porch area is now around 18’x13’.  They finished it up two days ago and it looks really nice.   This will be a great area for our boy to play around in a get some sun.  Our yard is not very big and St. Augustine grass is not great for toddlers to play on.  Plus, we have a few fire ant nests that have recently popped up in the yard, nasty little buggers.  I will post up some pics when I get some.  We have been looking around for some patio furniture to put out there but for some reason all the tables that Target is selling this year have fire pits in the middle of them.  I live in Florida.   What the fuck am I going to do with a fire pit?