Hola all! I know its been quite awhile since I last posted, a thousand apologies for that. I'd like to say its been a horrifically busy week, but I'm not overly sure how true that is. I've been finished with finals since last Wednesday, I even know my grades for all four classes. (B-, B, B+, A for those wondering) I have been working a fair amount as well, have to pay for those Christmas presents as well as bills and gas.

I finally got my 360 last week sometime, it was Thursday or Friday I think, I don't really remember now. The days get all confusing when I don't have classes to break them and identify them. Sine I pretty much work at the same time in the same section every night, there isn't much of a way to identify the passing of particular days so much as the obvious sun going down, sun coming up phenomenon that takes place quite often. Speaking of which, happy belated winter solstice! Anywho, back to topic, It's a pretty sweet little system. I got Project Gotham 3 as I felt it was a pretty safe bet. I own the first two in the series and I do enjoy a good racing game! So that being my only game for the better part of a week, I've been playing quite a bit of it. I did break down yesterday and trade in a bunch of my old xbox games for some store credit and picked up Perfect Dark Zero. I've played it only for about 20 minutes, but it's pretty good, fairly intense, and obviously good graphics. I was actually surprised with how good the sound is actually, both for this game in particular as well as the depth of sound overall. The old xbox claimed to offer dolby surround sound, but it was never really that good. The 360 definitely takes advantage of the sound, so if you have a good surround system and decent receiver I'd strongly encourage anyone to pony up the couple of bucks and by a fiber optic cable so you can be immersed in the sound alone. I also managed to connect it to my PC through media connect so now I can stream music off of my computer to play while I'm playing other games if I don't care for their soundtracks. I use this primarily for PGR3 as its nice to get your own mix, that's not to say that PGR3 doesn't come with some good tunes itself, my personal favorite being the classical mix, there's just something cool about hauling ass through New York with some Mozart blaring in the background.

Aside from sitting on the couch a great deal, I've finished up my Christmas shopping and wrapped a good number of presents. Our tree looks really nice all decorated and with the lights on and so many pretty presents sparkling under the tree. This truly is my favorite time of the year. I like how festive things are, and how warm, cozy and inviting everyone's places are. Unfortunately I start to get a little sad because I know in a week it'll all be over and then we'll just have a few months of impressive coldness and nothing to do. I wish Christmas could last longer! That's probably why I take so long to open my presents. Actually my family usually does a round robin where everyone takes turns opening presents. I usually stock pile mine until the end so that it last longer. And then when I do open them, I like to take each individual piece of tape off and unfold each crease of the paper, thus drawing out the suspense. This is fun to me, and makes Christmas last that much longer.

Alright, well I just wanted all to know that I'm still here and as I find interesting/funny/different/thoughtful/stupid things to write about, I'll start throwing some more stuff up here. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I'll leave you with a couple of things...

Defective yeti post that had me laughing so hard I almost fell off my chair.
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001534.html

And a picture my mother sent me. If you don't start to at least water up a little, you have no heart!!!!! Then you can giggle...