RIP Xbox 360 :(

My condolences...

I'm waiting for my open tray error to turn into full on hardwre failure so I may be joining you in mourning soon.

RIP Ameer's Xbox.

*sheds a tear*

*drinks a beer*

Still technically under Microsofts extended 3 year warranty for Red Rings so probably have it repaired. I just don't know how long it's gonna take and that's why I'm pretty pissed about it. Anyone have any experience with the overall length of time?

That's reasonable do they send a box for you to put it in? Also, do they send the same 360 or a refurb unit?

They'll send you a box and pay for shipping, but you need to ask. Mine took 2 weeks, but they comped me a month of Live.

Dave, call Microsoft so I can have my fucking 360 back! BioShock 2 is coming out and if I don't have it by then, I am taking it back without asking.

Not that he posts anymore so he won't read this.

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

Mass Erect 2 is waaaaaay better than Bioshock 2.

lol I can't tell if that was an intentional typo or if you were just tired.

Why Dpark anyways?  And Javolis...can't figure that one out either.

Why CheesyBread?  It's tasty.

Havolis.

Have a list...

OMG A DEATH LIST...JAV WILL KILL US ALL!

That's pretty funny. She believed you?

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

David Parker is not a bad one to come up with.  I used to say stupid ones like Frederick and they knew right away.

My friends and I occasionally traded names when we had substitutes.

I saw you before, I remembered what you look like.  I see many ethnic people with (for lack of a better term) "normal" or westernized names.  I know a Chinese guy named Dave Jim.  Yes, Dave Jim.

But yeah, you're right.  I would have said Abdul or something.

They should be more proud of their heritage.  Then again some of the names...a white person would make a fool of themselves trying to pronounce them.

My girlfriend's last name was originally something REALLY Native, I wouldn't even know how to spell it.

We have quite a few native reservations in the immediate area around here.  Some of our stop signs are exclusively in Mi'Kmaq (micmac) in the areas around reservations.  They sell cheap gas, smokes, and fireworks so they're a very popular and well established people around here.

They also clean out all the salvia from the headshops whenever it comes in.  Part of their religion or something.  Good luck with that.  Anyone ever smoke salvia?

It's five minutes or so of what I would descibe as a hallucinatory psychosis.  I tried it a few times and hated it.  I split on a bag of 25x extract I think it was...just to see what this new legal experience I had read so much about would be like.  It was like 30 dollars and I was a teenager so it wasn't cheap.  The first hit I took just turned my vision into a "psychedelic soup" and I had no idea which way was up.  My face felt like it was being pushed in like on a roller coaster and my jaw felt like it was made of wood with screws stuck in it (presumably my teeth).  I freaked out and screamed for about 2 minutes and sorta tried to shake it off and come out of it.  My friend then smoked his hit and for some reason went down to the fridge (don't know how he pulled that off) and tore off a stick of celery and came back up while proceeding to eat it in front of me with this retarded grin on his face.  This freaked me out even worse I was just kept bruying my face in a pillow while pleading with him to stop eating the celery, that he was scaring me.  LOL!

After that I didn't want any more, but, as I said, it cost 30 dollars so we decided to finish it up.  I insisted we go outside into the woods so we didn't alert my parents by screaming and freaking out and losing control.  So we did and it was cold out so that made the experience even more terrifying.  I kept trying to stand up but I couldn't understand the concept of "ice is slippery" and just kept falling down and pretending to have a good time until it was gone.  A waste of money.  I was scared the whole time and thought I'd never regain control or never come out of it.  (You literally lose all control, you can't walk or talk correctly.  There are some hilarious vids on Youtube.)  Not recommended.

LOL I'm glad you understand, prince.  Seriously I pulled a total Friedland there.

So back on topic, my launch model died in about 2008 and I ripped out the HD and controllers and bought the Arcade model.  That one now has an increasingly hard-to-fix open tray error that I'm sure will transform into RRoD someday soon.  I'm really scared about it.  I actually put off playing games because I figure "tonight's the night" and I hesistate to buy games because I don't know if I'll be able to revive the Xbox when I get it home.

So when are you getting another one?

Smart.

The only thing I ever had break and be replaced under warranty was a blood pressure machine.  Fun huh?

Yeah, I really wanna say Cheenee.  You're absolutely right.

My middle name is Juozas.  Many people say "jew-oh-zis" or "woe's ass" or something like that.  It's more like "yo-zus" or "yuh-zus."  Lithuanian.  My last name (as far as I'm concerned since I don't talk to my father) is Sodys, pronounced "so-deese."  I know all about name butchering.

Juozas is his middle name.

Dude, you must have some sort of memory on you.  I mean, I have never written "Vickers" on this site since I joined and you still remembered.  Awww...my little clarky boy missed Evie.

But yeah my last name is officially Vickers but I'm changing it to Sodys (my mother's last name since the divorce...and before the marriage) because I despise my father.  I will make a pity party thread about the details later in the Help boards.  But I went by Vickers when I was on FXB and I can't believe even one guy remembered.

I'm Vickers for now until I come up with the money to change my name and I may decide to not go though with it...but right now that's the plan.  But all my documentation like I.D., diplomas, birth certificate say Vickers.  Sodys is cooler.

I always thought your last name was Vickers...

I guess I was right.

Wow, sorry to hear that man.

Seems like things are going a little better now then they were before though, at least you're all cleared up.

Glad you're clean. Well, except for weed.

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

Thanks Clarky. I know it is a pitfall and a waste of money but it keeps me away from the hard stuff and it's actually cheaper than cigarettes. It also isn't harming my body the way opiates did. I know it's a justification but I'm doing good. Over 160 days baby!

I've been drinking a couple beers playing Forza 3. Just ate a shit ton of nachos, I'm probably gonna hit the hay before too long, gotta get up at 5 AM and start snow removal.

We got another 10" today, and it's still snowing :banghead:

It usually doesn't haha.

We've had a pretty rough year this far in snow. Keep in mind, I live in northern Arkansas, right dead center. About 15 minutes from Missouri. Still though, it shouldn't snow this much.

Thing is, we'll have 2-3 days where it stays below freezing, then it usually gets back up in the mid 30's. Although the first big snow we got (big for us anyways) was 6", and that whole week it stayed around 5-10 degrees. So that stuck around for a while.

Being that we're a pretty small community college (maybe 3k students), our college pretty much just closes when the public school do.