Wednesday, October 18, 2006

ebay is not freebay

So I'm laying here. Staring at the TV and watching things that have been DVRd by DG for my R&R. Knowing my pinched nerve is getting better, slowly. Ordered pizza for the first time in months. Exciting.

Reading. Finished my book. Bought some comics. Read them.

Bought a couple of DVDs. Watched them.

Wrote a good bit - letters, worked on ...something I've been working on...

Went online.

Puttered around on myspace. Yawn.

Thought, hey, I'll look around on ebay. I did... and I spent some money. See, I have this amazing tricked-out xbox I magically acquired last year. It contains thousands of games - really - every game in every language for every system made up til and including the Genesis, and it can backup DVDs and Xbox games to its harddrive as well. It's smarter than the average xbox. I.... left it on the ship. I played it so much with people in the cast, and Jamie played it so much, well, I figured I could get it back later or whatever. I think in my mind I was preparing to do what I did a few days ago. See, remember when the Xbox 360 came out last year, and you couldn't get them? I would look at them on ebay then and think, wow. People are fortunes reselling these things. I almost bid on a few of them, just because they were going cheap and I thought I could resell them for more. I didn't, though. I couldn't justify paying RETAIL for something like that, much less a scalper's price. So in the intervening year or so, they're more commonplace. You can walk in almost anywhere and buy one. I went on ebay and found a good one with some extras for a really good price, and I won the auction. Paid far less than retail. I can justify this... It will,,, assist me in my convalesence, that's my excuse.

So I bought an xbox 360. Some of you will roll your eyes at that, others will be envious, others still don't read English and can't comprehend any of this. Then there are those of you that I know HAVE this little machine in your homes already, and I am here now to ask... do you have any recommendations as to games / etc. i should get?

UPDATED: "Your Mom" is not actually a game. It should be, though.

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