Saturday Musings
Yesterday was not a great day for me. First off, some idiot (me) decided to open at 7am for Black Friday. This meant getting up much earlier that I normally do. Then, afterwards (we closed early) I went out with my 3 high school friends that are home for the holiday that I’ve known for 20+(!) years. Of course that involved drinking and going to bars that were smoke filled and I hate smoke.
I get home and Verizon has a DSL outage. There’s also a note from my wife saying we don’t have heat or hot water (the room temp was 59 and falling). I went downstairs and tried to reboot the boiler but no luck. It’s going to have to wait until morning so I don’t pay triple time for the service. No internet, no heat, no hot water. Good times.
There was some good news — Overstock.com did deliver the Xbox live wireless headset and the Xbox 360 wireless force feedback wheel. While I haven’t used the headset yet (No DSL until today and I’m dead tired), I Have tried the wireless wheel. One word: WOW. The wheel comes with the force feedback version of PGR3 and it’s a whole different game. Overstock had the wheel for $125 and if you don’t have PGR 3 yet, it’s a fantastic deal, especially if you like wheels. You can play other driving games with the wheel, but just in ‘wheel’ mode not in force feedback mode. Rumor has it Test Drive Unlimited will support an FF version at some point, but we’ll see.
I’d write more but I’m so damn tired..we now have heat and hot water. Yay!