Good News (for me at least),

One of my Best Buy co-workers was sent to a gaming/media convention this week in Kansas City, and his gift basket for attending includes early retail copies of select video games, including Uncharted 2!

He will be back this Friday, and fortunately, I have a VERY small weekend work schedule, so I'll be providing some early hands on impressions of the game to those interested. And don't worry, I know better than to ruin storyline elements and/or spoilers - so feel free to ask my questions and I'll try my best to answer them in the next few days.

So for the first time in 19 years in gaming, one of my video game consoles died - and it just happened to be my 60GB launch PS3, which suffered the elusive YLOD.

Fortunately I'm trying to stay positive with the situation. After going to GameStop, I found that trading in my dead PS3, plus extra games and whatnot that I own would result in $150 in credit, which is half the price of the slim. Once I get everything traded in and sorted out, I'm, going to sit back for a while before diving in and buying a slim.

All the games that I chose to keep I have backup files saved on my USB, so getting myself setup from where I left off is not going to be too much trouble (hopefully).

Anyway, it sucks to lose a console, but it was a good nearly 3 years.

Hey everyone, just thought I would share some really cool news!

I'm a home theater specialist for Best Buy retail here in Minnesota, and just yesterday at work, I got a call from our corporate office asking if I would like to be in the next commercial - and of course I was said "f*** YES!" I submitted my profile a few months back when a gentleman came in and took pictures of any associate interested in doing it, and I finally was drafted.

I go in for filming this coming Wednesday. No word yet on whether it will be a local or national spot, or whether I even speak. It's possible that I was drafted to be in the background showing me selling something to a customer - either way, I'm totally excited.

I'll keep posted when I get more information in the coming days.