tait
Shared on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 07:59OK, so on Thursday my XBox 360 locked up hard - suddenly, I had big white dotted lines across my screen. I turned it off, turned it back on - same problem. Took it all apart (removed all the cables, removed the HDD, removed the disc, etc) and put it back together - same issue. Waited forever with it off, then tried it all again - same dealio. So, I'm thinking it's toast - I had some minor lockup issues before, so I wasn't completely shocked. But, then, my clan (OMM) had COD2 clan night that night, and I'm looking at XBox.com and seeing my friends hop onto COD2 and it's driving me crazy that I can't play with them - for one, 90% of the Clan has given up their soul to Chromehounds, so they never play COD2 unless it's prearranged, so if I miss that night, I miss out for awhile.
So, I do the only logical thing: I hop into my car at 8:15pm and drive to Fry's and buy a new 360. Well, I take it home, plug it up and stuff and I'm on COD2 within minutes. However, the past few days I've experienced some strange issues with my "new" box:
- Sometimes, I turn it on and nothing appears on the screen - I have to turn it off and turn it back on
- I've turned it on and received 3 flashing red lights on the power button that go away if I turn it off and turn it back on
- Get a "Failed to Load" map issue in Halo 2 unlike the "normal" 360 error messages that I've received before - now, I even get it in matchmaking. I redownloaded all the maps but it doesn't make a difference
- I've locked up in Chromehounds and Billiards a few times
- Voice sucks (this isn't specific to my 360, though - I just wanted to mention it.)
So, here's what I'm going to do - I'm taking back my "new" 360 to the store and returning it. My "old" 360? It's going to Microsoft. Now, for those of you doing the math at home, you'll quickly realize that two minus two is zero, therefore you'd be correct in figuring out a conclusion statement that I will not have an XBox 360 to play on after lunch today (of course, that's only if you realized that lunch is when I plan on making this happen).
But besides that, I have other stuff going on right now:
1) I've been at my new job for just over a month, now, and I'm feeling that I want to really improve my career over time through learning. There are a lot of resources available, but it'd be extremely difficult to take advantage of those resources while doing my "normal" job, therefore if I want to learn I'll need to put in a lot of extra time outside of normal business hours.
2) It's hot, here. Not I-just-had-Starbucks-coffee-and-it-warms-me-too-much hot. Not Arizona hot. Texas hot. Seriously, it's a different kind of heat that I've experienced elsewhere - the kind of heat that you think about, that doesn't leave your brain. The kind that makes you see visions or say things you shouldn't. The kind of heat that you feel everywhere at once, that makes you slosh around in your own clothes and consider stripping and jumping into any body of water that you see. It's hot. I know we're somewhere in the midst of a long string of over 100 degree days, but more than that it's just yucky outside with a high level of humidity and poor air quality. Walking to the car is somewhere on par with having 3 gallons of hot water poured on you, except not as refreshing. I just don't feel like doing much when I'm very uncomfortable - LOL
3) I'm struggling in my marriage right now - I won't go into details in this setting, but know that it's there and it affects my thinking.
The thing is, I've become very attached to this site and the people on it. That's almost the reason I feel that I need a break, but it's also why I'm having trouble taking a break. See, one thing you probably don't know about me is that I grew up as a very uncool kid without friends and without a good self image. Throughout most of my life, I carried those thoughts along with me and only in the last year or so have I begin to really grasp a new way of looking at life: people are just people - they are doing the best they can. That statement absolves the responsibility of others to complete me in some way, so I am fine no matter what the circumstances. It's very freeing and allows me to be myself. On this site, I've been myself (mostly) quite a bit, and formed many friendships *in spite* of that (LOL). In many ways, this site has become my family. I'm not even sure that's entirely healthy - I feel that I might be missing out on friendships with people that I can see every week in "RL" (Real Life), but I also think that as adults it's much more difficult to find friends than as a kid (side note: they have singles clubs/bars if you're looking for a mate, but why aren't there "friendship bars"? You don't see Speed Friendship, or related friend-finding activities...).
I want to have an impact on people's lives - I want to share things that make a difference, you know? I want to write a blog that people find funny, comforting, interesting, or whatever - I want to be bookmarked, I want to be involved, and I want to pour myself into people.
Thanks and I hope to see you soon
If you'd like to chat about anything, or just tell jokes, give me a holler anytime at taitlifto@hotmail.com (put "2o2p" at the beginning of the subject line to avoid my spam blocker) or on Yahoo Instant Messenger at "scorpscorp". You're also welcome to visit my personal website at www.taitlifto.net
PS: All of this is subject to change - I might go so crazy in a day that I go and buy another 360 and login. It's entirely possible :-)
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