WooHoo!

Well as derrick mentioned at his site, I have purchased a new toy. Several weeks ago one of my co'workers mentioned that was really getting into an online game called World of Warcraft and was hardly ever using his X-box anymore. Being the game loving guy that I am, I perked up my ears and the next time he mentioned it, I told him I might be interested. After several delays (me getting cold feet, getting sick, him going to a different site) we finally got together and I bought his X-box. The console, one controller, and nine games. If I had bought it at a store the games combined would probably have been equal to the price I paid, so I essentially got the system for free. I felt like such a smart shopper :) Now, not only am I a smart shopper, but I'm also a smart gamer. Most games are much more fun when shared, so on my way home I bought another controller plus a racing game that I knew pretty much everybody would enjoy.

After helping my cousin move (a piece of cake for a strong healthy young man such as myself) I went over to my brothers house, thankfully only about a hundred feet away, and set it all up. Since it was fairly late we only played about two hours, but it was two hours of incredible fun. Racing, shooting, sword swinging, and generally trying to grind the other guy into the dust was so much fun. We put it away for the night but then picked it right back up again today. Right now the best games I have are Halo 2 and NfS Hot Pursuit 2. Both of these games have great multiplayer levels can even be fun for the whole family, well at least some of them. For now it is going to reside at my brothers (mostly so he can practice and get up to my level) but there is definitely going to be some fierce competitions in the future. Ahh, the ties that bind.