Yes, that is my XBox... Yes, those three lights are red. And yes, while you can't really tell from the still photo, they are blinking. It's the thing that every XBox 360 owner dreads seeing - the Red Ring of Death indicating a general (read: vague and indescript) hardware failure.This nasty little demon was waiting for me when I turned on the machine after getting home today. The generation of machine I had purchased was supposedly more resistant to RRoD, but apparently not immune. I called XBox support right away. After a heated exchange with the automated menu system and a short hold, I was connected to some poor phone monkey in India. I must admit that their phone skills and accent suppression training seminars have gotten better as time has gone on - I could hardly tell what region in India he was from, only that he was from India. We ran some quick troubleshooting before he got the RMA process started. Apparently the warranty runs out on December 26th, so if it was going to go on the blink, it chose to do so in the knick of time. A box is on its way to ship this out, and I should have it back in 2-10 weeks. -.-; Just as I got a NICE entertainment setup...
What can I say? Stikes and gutters. After dinner, D and I gamed for a bit. We've been wanting to get out in game characters married to each other for some time. Unfortunately, as is the case with most of the real world, only characters of the opposite sex are allowed to marry in game. And since Keri and I are both female characters, that's something that's just not likely to happen. So we decided that we're going to try to get our main characters hitched to mules of nearly the exact same name. I finally said goodbye to Noyoudo and created a Hume MNK names "Shrades" and Keri created a Hume WAR named "Keriths." You only need to be level 20 to marry, so it shouldn't take long to get them up to snuff. Then, when one of our applications gets approved, the other will get a ring that says Shrades or Keriths. Close enough, right? >.>;
After leveling these new mules to Lv5, we hopped on our mains for more BST leveling. We both dinged 59 and ran through the leftover ring charge from last time and most of another one before we called it quits for the night. We're holding a pretty consistent chain 3 now against the ants, and the experience is rolling in. We should be able to work another level or two out of this camp before we will have to leave, as the pets/prey don't get any stronger, making it too easy to pull hate from them.
Each passing day, I'm more and more excited about the vacation. I have one more day of work, followed by a weekend, then two and a half days before a long five and a half day vacation. Weekend intelligence will likely consist of laundry, wrapping, packing and gaming, but something always seems to happen to keep life interesting. >.>; Sure hope I'm not jinxing myself...
1 comment:
I can one up you. Mine had an e27 error or some such number. Unlike the red ring of death which you can repair yourself fairly easily and inexpensive... mine had an actual meltdown of the video processor. Literally my graphics chip melted into the motherboard or some such nonsense. My then "great deal, $150 x-box had become a normal $300 x-box that i couldn't play with for the month or so that microsoft had it.... se' la vie. It still kicks you know what.... that is to say in it's repaired state of course.
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