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My Xbox broke last Friday, the Disc Drive went Kaput so I was left this weekend without any means of entertainment. Luckily, my buddy Jericho was able to lend me his spare Xbox last night.

I left the apartment around 5:30 and had to take the Green Line over 2 stops so  I could switch to the Red Line and head up North. About an hour later, I’m pulling up to Jericho’s stop, walk two blocks and I’m at his apartment. After a few minutes I started the trek back and didn’t get back to my stop until about 8:00. I got the box up and running quickly and now I’m able to be back online, but it’s only a temp fix.

Hopefully I can get my box fixed quickly and be back on my own feet soon.

This doesn’t need much of an introduction. Watch me play Halo 3. Rough cut, I’ll polish it up soon.

For a higher resolution download, you can get it here… Stuuuuuuutage v1.0

Lemme know what you think!

Until I get to go home and see that cute blonde girl I get to call my girlfriend.

That’s all.

I really have an addiction to Media. More importantly, Entertainment Media.

Movies, movie trailers, books, video games, tv shows, music, photography, and anything that involves watching, creating, talking about, or doing any of those activities and I’ll probably be involved.

So, seen any good movies lately? Read any good books? Played any good games?

I never caught Superbad in theaters, as it came out right when I was moving to Chicago, but I hopefully will get it for X-mas and laugh my ass off. I’m looking into a few more books to read, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King still are my favorite. As for games… I’m still addicted to Halo, but I do want to play Call of Duty 4 and Rock Band over X-mas. I hope I get both of them, because they are awesome.

I saw this on HawtyMcBloggy this morning and thought I’d join in even if I didn’t officially sign up for it. It’s ok, I know Ms. McBloggy and she’s already fired me and put me on her “Protection List” which is the equivalent to the mob’s hitlist.

One of my first gaming moments was when we got Super Mario Bros for the NES. I found the game to be incredibly challenging since I was 4 at the time, and that there was no save function so you had to do it all in one sitting. I had a babysitter who would play it with me and she was even more skilled than me. In my defense, she was at least 14 at the time and had much more practice. So even in the early days of my gaming, I was introduced to Women in gaming, where they kicked my ass.

Some memorable gaming moments growing up, Getting my N64, and then not getting a game for it for two weeks because they were sold out. Goldeneye matches with my 3 friends that we would do all day. All of the time’s we would spend the night at Hunter’s house, stay up all night playing one match of Goldeneye for about 12 hours.

When I was a Senior in High School I was enrolled in a Programming class, where we stumbled upon LAN networking and being able to play Unreal Tournament with everyone in the class. We would hurry and get our day’s assignment done in about 15 minutes, then spend the next hour blasting away in 8v8 matches. We even had a challenge against the other Programming class across school one day after a few day’s worth of trash talking.

Gaming with my friends in class led me to get invited to a buddy of mine’s Halo LAN. I had heard of it, but never played it before I went up to the church we were using as our LAN space. It was an impressive sight for someone so new to LAN’s. There were two projectors set up and two TV’s as well. There were 14 other guys up there, and I went with my friend Shane a.k.a. Bad Karma. We sat down, set up our profiles, and got introduced to Halo the right way. 8v8 Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch. At first, I was thrown off by the controls and we were finishing at the bottom of the group in 15th and 16th place. By the end of the night we had moved up to 12th and 13th place.

Over the summer, we LAN’d as much as we could. By the end of the summer, I was able to snag top honors once in a while, as it was a truly epic match up with everyone there.

Those are only a few of the moments that I can recall at a moment’s notice, but it was the progression of how I became a Gunslinger. Without these moments, I wouldn’t ever have been enthralled in the online gaming community and could have ended up doing something productive with my time.

I’ve been back in Chicago this week and in a rush to get back in track with school.

Found out Monday that my Accounting final will be this coming Monday. Econ final is still in two weeks from today. I have a Marketing Research paper for my online Marketing class, as well as an online final that I need to figure out how to study for.

This week, I just need to focus on my Accounting final and this paper so I can hit the last two exams full strength.

I’m missing a part of Memphis quite a bit, particularly a one Ashley. It’s been a while since I’ve had someone make me smile, I’m just enjoying that right now.

Here’s a quick update of my week in Memphis so far…

Tuesday: Flew in early afternoon and headed to the Tigers basketball game against Arkansas State. We won! 5-0 for the season.

Wednesday: Visited some friends, and then headed to Buffalo Wild Wings to see a bunch of people. Ended up going downtown to Alfred’s for a little bit.

Thursday: Turkey day! Made up stories to all my family for how Chicago was. It’s tropical btw. Thurs night, Krystal and I hit up Fox and Hound to escape family madness and then after getting my ass kicked at pool, we got some Donuts at Gibson’s. 5 for a dollar after 11:00. Delicious.

Friday: Avoided Black Friday shopping for as long as possible, had lunch with Sarah, then went to the Apple store to get my sister’s new laptop and got Leopard for myself. Afterwards, I took Ashley out for dinner which ended up being at Comedy, TN for some laughs, then Fox and Hound for some “Kryptonite Ritas”. They are friggin huge.

Saturday: Let the liver rest, and about to go grab some dinner in a few.

Sunday: I’ll be flying back to Chicago.

Memphis isn’t so bad when you take it in small doses. I did miss seeing Shane this trip since he was outta town earlier this week. Sucks. He’s my best bud.

Watching the Tigers play right now. This could be the season we break past the Elite 8.

Derek Rose is an amazing addition to an already great team. I can’t wait to see this season. So far we’re 2-0 and ranked #3 in the country.

My favorite players…

Chris Douglas-Roberts

Antonio Anderson (worked with him)

Joey Dorsey

Willie Kemp, Andre Allen

Robert Dozier, Doneal Mack

Shawn Taggart

Talk about a great team.

So it’s close to Thanksgiving and I head home in just over a week. I haven’t seen my family or friends in almost 4 months. Crazy how time flies.

I can’t wait to head home and see all of the familiar faces.

School is going well, I’m not gonna be on the Dean’s List but I should be passing all of my classes just fine. I have a job interview lined up on Monday, with a few other potentials right now.

More later…