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I start work today. Finally. It’s only a contract job, and it’s a far drive. I’ll be working at Broadcom for 6 months doing QA on NICs and drivers. It pays $20/hr. Not that great and not the kind of job I intended to get out of a computer science degree. But it’ll pay the bills. I gotta wake up in 5 hours to make the drive down to Irvine. It sounds like an easy job and hopefully I can get later hours.
I recently got a Xbox 360. Just in time because my dad just got a 60″ Sony HDTV. The last couple of weeks have been remodeling the kitchen/living area and custom fitting an entertainment center for the huge TV. I love the TV, I do not care much for the furniture. I’m loving 360 right now. It looks amazing on this TV. I won’t even put it back in my room anymore. My TV sucks. Xbox Achievements are my bane right now. I’m playing the Live Arcade games trying to unlock as many achievements I can. I’m hooked to Geometry Wars and Hexic HD. I also bought Street Fighter II HF, I don’t remember it being this hard. The first non XBLA game I bought was NBA 2k7. It looks amazing. I also started up Gamefly again and rented Test Drive Unlimited. I got a second controller that was defective. The L trigger always sticks. I called Microsoft and they are sending me another. However in the process they asked for my 360’s serial number. So I lifted it to take a look at the back. I had NBA 2k7 still running inside and needless to say the 360 starts chewing on my disc. I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to move the console with a disc inside. In hindsight, I guess it’s just common sense. So my disc got really scratched badly in a circular fashion. Luckily, I had leftover iPod scratch remover polish and tried that and it seemed to work. I can still see the scratch but it’s lighter and the 360 doesn’t complain about reading it.
Gotta get to sleep so I don’t die at work. Gotta support my gaming addiction.
