Day One

Day One

Well, today began the first day minus my consoles. I woke up for work and immediately noticed the empty space next to my 42". Which, of course, got me looking at my game collection that stands right next to the television. *sigh*. Well, I had work to occupy me so off I went.

Not to bore one with the menial details of my work day, the day went by pretty uneventful. During a few spare moments throughout the day, I found and read a few really good articles about the new Xbox 360 S that provided pretty good insights on the pro's and con's of the system as well as some really good shots of both the console and the back where I could see all the ports available. I realised then that the current consoles are not "Kinect" compatible. The new console has a dedicated port that looks a bit odd, for the Kinect. I am going to guess that either the Kinect will come with an adapter or Microsoft will force current console owners (who don't have the new 360 S console) to purchase an adapter to use the Kinect. I wouldn't put it past MS to pull something like that.

I hit up the GameStop website again and it still read that they had one in stock. Not only that but a few other local shops had some in stock, according to the website. I am wondering if I could move my reserve to another store. That might be worth investigating.

Afterwork was no different. I came home, hoping that there would be a message on my voice mail but knowing the answer before I even walked through the door. I spent a little bit reading a few more articles and checking the usual web sites before playing with my son and putting him to bed.

That evening, I had a bunch of friends over to play some boardgames so I really didn't miss my console. We played pretty late and had a good amount of fun and so when everyone left, I pretty much just went upstairs and crawled into bed. Not bad for Day One. Hopefully tomorrow will be the same. At least I have 2 soccer games to occupy my day but it's the evening that I think will make me start to miss it since I mainly just played at night anyways.