I suppose that if it had to happen, this was the best time. My Xbox 360 seems to be on the verge of eating dirt, so to speak. It started about a two month ago. I had to move my 360 to our basement because it was getting too hot upstairs. Nothing happened right away, but eventually I got a very infrequent game freeze. I didn't think anything of it, I had the 360 sitting right next to the TV with the power brick behind it, all in a tight space. I took the 360 out of the slot to let it cool down and moved it back upstairs. I missed the HD picture and it wasn't so warm then, anyways. The problems went away, basically. I've only ever had a few freezes with the console, but all of them seem justified. Since returning from holiday, though, my 360 can't play more than ten, twenty minutes, if that. I don't know why it's happened now, I unplugged both my Wii and 360 before we left, basically the only thing running was the DVR. The last time I could even load a game was getting two playthroughs of Jessica on Hard mode in Guitar Hero II. Luckily, I beat my old highscore and got five stars, which I promptly added to cherrypie. (More on that later in another post, maybe.) So, yesterday I was looking for fixes, even temporary ones. My cousins are coming over tomorrow and I'd like to have it running as they are fairly new Guitar Hero fans. I came across a number of things that basically all pointed to letting the console, and, more specifically, the power brick, breathe. Nothing worked, in fact, once I moved every thing, I got the Red Ring 'o Death as soon as I turned the console on this morning. I tried numerous combinations, hard drive in and out, no AV cables, even the towel trick. Nothing has worked. I was actually riding on the towel trick or something else working, I wrote the first half of this post earlier, hoping I could come back and say "And here's how I fixed it."

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This summer I've gotten back into Warhammer 40,000, a table-top science fiction table top soldier game. The game is from Games Workshop, they produce and sell the products. There are two Games Workshop stores in Edmonton, the nearest to where I live is in the West Edmonton Mall. I have basically been going there since I got into the hobby, I first played on a holiday in Calgary and went to the other Edmonton once or twice. This was two or so years ago, but at the time the employees were really annoying and I was basically turned off that store for, well, ever. But now I'm seriously considering going back to it. Over the past year, maybe less, the WEM GW store has started to get really bad. Underestimating how many people who would come to events was common, the good employees started leaving and now the summer events don't look like they'll be going very well. Yesterday I went to Games Workshop to participate in the terribly-renamed event "Quick and Messy." It consists of two 500pt. armies working together against another two 500pt. army team. Last summer I had a ton of fun doing this event, which was organized as a tournament. It went along with a painting contest and, if I remember correctly, a similar event on a different night of the week for Warhammer and Lord of the Rings. (Those are GW's other major games.) This time, however, was significantly different, though I should have been able to figure that out by the new name of the event.

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I should have posted again much sooner, but I've been putting it off, as per usual. Even some encouragement didn't make it happen right away. This time, especially as of late, I've been significantly less active on the internet and haven't been on my Xbox 360 for a number of days. This, I think, I can primarily attribute to getting back into Warhammer 40,000, a table top game. (Wiki it?) I've been catching up on building some of my models, I have a ton that I bought when I was in England since they were significantly cheaper there. I've also been playing quite a few games with my brother and will probably end up going to a number of Games Workshop events next month. Anyways, all this has been keeping me from getting another blog entry done. I had/have plenty of ideas, one which I may end up ...

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