Psychotomy

So, the nondescript empty box arrived yesterday afternoon.

Of course, I won’t be able to get to a UPS site to ship it back until like tomorrow or something stupid :/ then it’ll take a week to get there, then some amount of time to “fix” and probably another week to get back to me. *sigh* a couple more weeks without the X :(

in the meantime, i picked up mario and zelda on the wii retro stuff, to play with whilst i’m out of the X, since i can work it with des on my lap.

and the fact that i TOTALLY suck at it means i don’t have to worry :o

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So last week, Microsoft announces that they’re going to extend the xbox warranty to 3 years for the “Ring of Death” “general hardware fault” (what’s amusing is that there’s a DIFFERENT error “hardware fault” … which means this is specific yet generic :o)

I think ‘neat, so i have two years in warranty for that’ and don’t really pay any attention

then sunday the 360 freezes on boot for kiir. and when we reboot it RoD’s. so then i spent time looking things up and trying various reboots (ah the standard microsoft solution. “try rebooting. no? try unplygging, replugging, then rebooting. no? try unplugging, waiting 5 minutes, then replugging and rebooting. no? uh. try rebooting twice in a row??”) no luck. pulled the drive and the wireless adapter. left it sit for a bit. still no.

so i sent am email via their support site. no response for two days. since i never even got an automated “you’re in our system, we will get back to you soonest. kisses, bill” message, i decided either that didn’t work or i botched my address. so yesterday i called. and then i called back after desmond went to bed so their system would actually tell me my options rather than resetting with “i’m sorry, i didn’t understand that” every time he cried out :o

half an hour on hold (damn i’m glad it was an 800 # and it wasn’t our cell phone) they’re sending me a plain brown box. i’m to send it back full, and unmarked. then they’ll send me a replacement/fixment/whatever. ment.

wheeee.

and of course i bought overlord a week prior, and i keep wanting to play my NEW FUCKING GAME!!! *sigh*

wii sports just isn’t the same, yaknow?

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sunday morning i went out and stood in line for a couple hours and actually got to be 19/24 on getting a nintendo wii :o

been playing it on and off a bunch. actually, mostly playing a cooking game :o played zelda enough to do the very first bit of the tutorial … hrrm, i spent a lot of money and bought a game to pretend to cook, then i order pizza for dinner …

oops :o

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taped off the two tub full baths yesterday and painted one. may paint the other tonight or something. we don’t have paints for the other two rooms yet, but the first floor needs me to cut out the wall and try again anyway :o go me!

hit ikea to look at furniture bits for the living room/dining room. since we got rid of all the old furniture, we need to get new before i can even work on reclaiming the downstairs rooms! oops, bad planning! oh well. i’ll figure something out.

K had camp saturday, and we played on the computers. i bought a new vid card, too, b/c i was peaking at 15fps in vanguard, while she was getting 30+ average. new vid card (same as hers, basically, now) i’m getting 35-40 usually, 20-30 in populous areas, and down to 15 when it hits a heavy display. which is an improvmenet over 15, 7, 1 :o really fun when i drop to .7fps now, though. “can you say over drawn???”

hopefully my new paycheck (see other post) will start helping us with the cashflow problems :o

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k is, shockingly, completely psycho.

and today’s revelation is brought to you by the makers of advil and letters STFU! one of the games on the xbox’s arcade disc kiir picked up is backgammon. i’ve often wondered how to play backgammon, so i decded to give it a shot.

omg, k went baLLISTIC over that. jumping, barking, barking, jumping, running around, barking, more barking, cripes he was displeased. that was sometime earlier this week, he was energetic. last night i decide i want to play something, and the DoA4 demo is kinda boring and i can’t find the game anywhere, tired of poker at the moment, and launch up backgammon. b/c the sound is OFF and the puppy is sound asleep.

I made it through the first game, figured out HTF i was supposed to be playing and what to do. started the second game, was 75% or so done, and the puppy rouses up to shift. and he sees me playing backgammon on the TV. and goes batshit bonkers. i mean OFF THE WALL NUTSO here. barking, jumping, barking, bitching, everything! apparently it wasn’t the sound, so much (although it would have woken him earlier obviously, this time) but the game.

my dog hates backgammon. go figure.

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this weekend we were going to try and hook up with a nintendo revolution.  sunday was the second release.  we’d also  been looking at an xbox360 (gears of war looked interesting to me) and we’d found some games so it wasn’t just for one game anymore

saturday we bought an X and a handful of games :o  saturday evening the lines had started forming for the wii, and i just do NOT care that much about, well, virtually anything, honestly.  hooked up the X and played with it

sunday we went down to ikea to look at tv stand furniture.  b/c salvation army is coming tomorrow (wednesday) to pick up our old ones.  and a bunch of other crap that we’re trying to get rid of in order to de-clutter the damned house.  might work, but all the other work i’ve put in seems to have backslid b/c the whole house is a big mess again :(  ended up picking up the one we were planning to do with the new living room center, so that’s handy.  on the way home, we decided to stop at best buy (again) and look at their flat panels.  b/c our tv is almost 25″ deep, and the stand is 24″ deep (deep as they came) and i wasn’t sure it would fit when we put up the rest of the center.  ended up buying a 32″ hd flat panel b/c it was only 600$ :o  did remember to buy the power cable-strips (squids) that we went for at least.

sunday evening i spent putting together (most of) the tv stand and hooking up the new TV.  we’re planning on maybe giving the TV to SA tomorrow (if I can move it downstairs, i’ll keep it.  If I can move it  at all, I’m going to ask my parents if they want it; otherwise, it’s going with whoever can carry it :o) the new Tv is much smaller, and yet larger :)

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been reading brikwars rules all weekend.

and now i wanna pull out the legos!!!!

http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2005/contents.htm

Basically, it’s legos meets risk. Wargaming meets 7yr olds.

Minifigs (legomen) killing each other over a brik landscape :o

damn i wanna play now, it just seems so … fun!

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so i started playing eq again :o

kiir was restarting her account the other day, so i decided to relaunch mine. i like the game an’ all, but i HATE soloing. of course, it;’s been less than a week and i’m back soloing again :/

problem is, i was soloing 99% of the time in CoV/CoH lately, and there’s not many other options in CivIV :o

and my only other option at that point is watching netflix. which i’ve done a lot of lately since i quit eq2 the last time !!

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You scored as SG-1 (from Stargate). You are versatile and diverse in your thinking. You have an open mind to that which seems highly unlikely and accept it with a bit of humor. Now if only aliens would stop trying to take over your body.

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Stepped CivIV back to 2nd level difficulty after spending over a week getting smashed on 3rd. Played last night, and I’m cleaning up. Taken over half of france without a war, and some of china :o I’ve got 50% more points than anyone, and I haven’t been able to trade tech with anyone since I GOT tech trading, b/c no one is as advanced!!!

I think I’ll win for a while before trying 3 again though. I like not losing all the time :)

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