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Friday, Jun 26, 2009

Wow. We lost Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett within a few days of each other. I'm stunned; I grew up when Jackson was just making his first few albums, and he was such a huge star, you wouldn't believe it. Rest in peace.

I tested out the new dance pad for "DDR Universe" on my new X Box 360, and it works fine! I still have no rhythm, though. I have a habit of staying close to the top arrow and not being able to reach the bottom arrow in time. Yipes.

My dog is all sorts of scared because there's a rainstorm. She'll calm down as soon as I have a pretzel.

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Sunday, Jun 21, 2009

That's right. It got the red ring of death the other day. I switched it on and off several times, unplugged it, replugged it and did a bunch of other little checkups, but nothing would help. The rings kept coming back. I had the machine about a year and a half. I checked the ads at Game Stop.com, and a refurbished one is $150-200; a refurbished PlayStation 3 is $350 and up. I also called Game Stop's customer service line, and they said the store does not perform X Box 360 repairs. So I'm stuck with a non-working block of no value. I now have to worry about whether to wait for the sales later in the year, or maybe get a portable system to tide me over. I'll have to go ahead and cancel my subscription to Game Fly. The funny thing is, after the incident happened, I received my previous selection from Game Fly in the mail, and I had really been looking forward to playing it. The game was "Cabela's Dangerous Hunts." Also, I got a game in the mail that I had ordered from Game Fly's used games store. It was a wrestling game. So, I'm stuck here just staring at my TV, and wondering what I should do. My dog used to jump on the bed whenever I was playing X Box and try to eat the controller. Now she has nothing to do...

"Animal Planet" finally has a "Cats 101" show, to match the "Dogs 101" series. I'm glad they're showing it now, because I've been thinking about adopting a cat, and it's good to know what the different breeds are like. I'll have to wait until I get an apartment, maybe later this year, but it'll be fun when I do.

It's really hot in here. The thermometer on the alarm clock says it was 80 degrees before. Yipes. I've got to get some ice water.

That's it for now. See you later. Thanks.

markers

100 colors of awesome.

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Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Hi there. It's been a funny weekend. It was very hot here, and I spent most of the time catching up on my sleep. I did go out on Sunday. There were a bunch of ducks, walking around and probably building nests. I've seen the babies hatch in previous years-- they're as adorable as can be.

One of the new things I hate is embedded sound ads online. I have a pop-up blocker that kills off most ads, but they've been implanthing new stuff that plays whether you click on anything or not. Pleh.

It's been a boring few days for TV. I didn't see anything I liked since maybe the middle of last week. I wound up watching a lot of my own DVDs.

I am somewhat confoozed by the existence of some games that say they are X Box Live-capable, but don't contain any achievements. I rented a couple like that, and I wanted to scream. What's the point of promising us we can play this in the XBL setting, and then making the game no different from any other? Ugh!

That's it for now. Thanks for reading. See you soon.

art

(This is my new art book. I like to do lettering.)

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