September 8

Nothing exciting until after work. My mother and I drove out to Canton to visit Ikea and pick up a new TV stand. There are multiple reasons for this new TV stand, but for now we'll say space management ranks at the top. We drove back into town around 8:30-ish and I stopped in Best Buy to pick up the last season of the Office, Jay-Z and Raekwon's new CD (though they only had Blueprint III), and...a XBox 360. Yup, it's about that time folks. And, I have to admit, I'm excited as hell for tomorrow. Anyway, getting back to the events of the day. We ended up stopping by Outback for a late night dinner and, as soon as we got home, I went to work on the stand and rearranging my room. It took some time, obviously. Why else would I still be up? But, the good news, it's all put together, with a couple drawers full of Wii and XBox accesories, a middle section for the DVD player, and the top holding the Wii, TV, and 360. A pretty nice set up, if I do say so myself. And, of course, before I went to bed I had to get on the new system and set it up/check it out. So I set up the display setting, the Live, my avatar, and a gamertag. It's basically a giant Arctic Monkeys reference. If I grow out of it later, I'll change it. Haha. Oh yeah, and I set up my Netflix to stream through the 360. So now, if I feel like watching a certain movie at any time, BOOM, it's there in HD on my TV. I love it.

In case you're wondering, the Tigers lost today, as did the Twins AND White Sox. So the lead stays the same.

Also, if you're wondering, the reason the 360 was purchased was for tomorrow (later today) when Beatles: Rock Band is released. I have a pre-order. I'm going to drive out of work so fast today, it won't even be funny. Then, it's straight Beatles until I pass out. Can't...wait. I almost want to buy the Mono re-issues...but that's a bit much. Still.

What a scummy man,
B