Thursday, October 22, 2009

Red Ring of Death

My Xbox 360 finally subcummed to the dreaded Red Ring of Death. For those not familar with the RROD, this is a common problem with the 360 where the system dies and either has to be replaced or repaired. The issue is so prevelant that the warrenty for this specific issue is 3 years (compared to the standard 1 year warrenty). So off to the repair shop it goes.

I feel that I'm in a bad karma phase with things right now. Between some dental issues (my dentist did a horrid job with my last fillings... and made it worse with the correction. I'm now looking at a root canal... and a new dentist). The extremely painful pulled back muscle, followed immediately with the head cold. Right now I'm killing time (sans Xbox 360, btw) for more blood work for my thyroid disease (ya... have I mentioned the massive hair loss?). Sigh. My Xbox has been my savior... I can play Oblivion for hours and not wallow in self pity (which is totally selfish and a little over reacting... these are NOT major issues).

So I did the little meltdown when my Xbox decided to die on me. Matt was fabulous and comforting (and we ordered a backup 360... not just so I have one to tie me over while mine is out for repairs, but the second one will be put on the second TV so we'll have easy access to Netflix's Instant download on the other TV).

Meanwhile, here's the first photo of Portland (I've done an other repeat since I took this photo:

1 comment:

  1. That is amazing!!! You are the cable queen!

    I don't know if you have Best Buy where you live, but their warranty program is amazing. Our son's X-box died just days before the warranty was up. They gave him a new one plus a gift card because the price had gone down $100 since we purchased it. And even if you don't have the receipt, they can look it up online.

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