No one to blame BUT me.

Man am I hurting this morning.  A group from work scored a suite and front row tickets to the Orlando Heat / Chicago Bulls game last night.  We had food and open bar up at the suite and rotated each quarter to go down and sit front row.

I am an early riser for work so a drive to Miami and back kept me up till almost 1am.  Now I really need a nap.  The game was close and the Heat came back in the second half for the win.  Really nice time for my first NBA game.

Many thanks to the volunteer who let us use their box seats.

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State of my Union

The world's condition as I am directly affected by it is above average.

I have a job that covers all my bills plus a little savings plan.

I have a healthy family who all speak to each other freindly.

The weather has been good, just enough sun and rain.

My health is good even if I do carry a few extra flour bag hidden under the skin.

My X360 #3 is still functional.

 

That is all for now.  Let's end this on the positive.

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Must vent anger.

           As I read clan posts I will relate some thing from my experience in my own reply to their posts.

           I was about to do this in my fellow Forza clan.  A post talking about someones favorite band and we should give thier new CD a try.  This led to a mention of downloading from the Zune site.  I began a reply about my dissatisfaction with said product and fathering company.  Just as I was going to hit submit , I took a breath a realized I was about to JACK a freinds thread with my highly negative thought energy.

          So that's when I decided to remove myself from the hallowed grounds of the clan sancuary and place this BITCH RANT here on my quiet unnoticed blog.  Beware, from here on I get very criticle.

1.  In June 2007 my X360 gave me my first 3 Red Lights Of Death. (Here in called 3RL ).  The box was purchased in February of launch year.  I felt luck that it lived so long.  Microsoft was called, you might know the drill.  Coffin sent, returned, bill paid, new serial # X360 built Oct. 2006 sent to me 5 weeks after 3RL.

2.  Less than 2 weeks after return of X360 #2 the singal red light on bottom right shows box failure of whatever.  Begin with phone call, new coffin, UPS Xbox to home world (Texas), new box with Aug 2007 s# arrives 4 weeks after singal RL.  I saved a week because I reused the first coffin. 

3.  Since I started using my X360 #3 I am not able to use media share to listen to my music library.  Spent time reloading program from MS site then spent 2 hours straight on the phone with service reps. (3) in far far away country who finally told me they would need to sent coffin to try and locate problem.  Forget it !!! 

4.  X-mas rolls by and I recieve a Zune.  This might talk to my console so I can listen to music again.  The item does no other function except turn on until you visit the MS site and load the secret files. WHY ?!?   At the site my PC loads Zune software then sells me the devise is not recognized.  Maybe my PC is too old.  The XP is only second edition.  I will try the my Ladies brand new Laptop.  Same results.  Most remember how messed up Xbox Live was first of the year.  I waited till end of first week in January 2008 to try a phone call for tech support.  No real person was availible after over 1 hour of automated B.S.  Back in the box and back to the store.

5.  Lately I have been recieving unreadable disc errors on COD4.  I very carefully cleaned the disc.  Seems O.K.  My Forza2 has longer than normal loading of tracks.  This week the disc drive is making quite a lot of sqeaking, chirping noises.  Good thing I kept both the old coffins.

 

When I play I enjoy myself.  The game developers have added so much over the past years.  The games have so much more deepth in story and graphics.  It's too bad the support hardware fails in so many ways.

 

 

Posted by LTD05GT @ 12:58 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Console death

Why do I expect good results?  This morning I turn on my X360 and I see SYSTEM ERROR E79 with a single flashing red light on the lower right quad.  This unit has been back from MS for only 2 weeks.  After waiting for the office to open since they sleep so late out west, I now have a new repair number and I am waiting for another return box.  Looks like another month without my games.

I'm feeling very negative and don't think I can say much else without using bags full of unproductive 4 letter words.  I not going to have a good weekend!

Posted by LTD05GT @ 10:10 am EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Following my dive.

So i did make it out to dive the local Fl. reef Sunday 8/12/07.  Nice weather, choppy 1 - 2 ft and 40 ft visibility.  An average condition.  The dive gave me the work out I have been missing and my limit of lobster.  One of which would not fit in the catch bag.  My personnal record is now a 4 1/2 LB Florida spiny lobster.  This area of S.E. Fl is not known for bugs this big.  Those are found more commonly north of us.  Over fishing would be the main reason.  I must say this was a tasty example.  The larger size also ment that the legs and antenna have enough meat to eat.  For those that don't know, FL lobster don't have claws like the Maine lobster found at most resturants.

Posted by LTD05GT @ 11:51 am EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments