I think I’m simply shell shocked by the pre-release hoopla of the Xbox 360. Games are already in the stores, as are a bunch of accessories. There are playable kiosks everywhere. I’ve mail ordered a wired controller from online, since I forgot to pre-order one. Even went and pre-paid the outstanding balance on the console and Madden 06. All the excitement is causes a lack of blogging time for me somehow. Or so I tell myself!

And yet, in spite of all of this, I still don’t know if I have one coming to me on Nov-22! The ebGames I pre-ordered from isn’t saying a word. Pre-ordered? Don’t I work at Microsoft? Contrary to what you’ve heard or what you might assume, we get no special treatment for hardware of this magnitude. We’re in the same boat that you are: scrambling to get one. Anyway, yeah, ebGames will be open at midnight, sure. Other stores have told people what they’re position in line will be. Hell, Best Buy and Future Shop have had their entire nationwide allocation – per store – leaked online. My local ebGames is making me very, very nervous. I pre-ordered in the first wave, the weekend the 360 was announced. If I don’t get one of the first lot, I’ll want to know where I stand on the list. The least they can do is tell me how many people are in front of me. That’s all I wanna know. Grr.

On another note, I’ve opted to bite the bullet and repave my home machine – one spontaneous reboot and hard drive error too many. Give the Good Geek Karma a real test this month. Should make for an interesting week end and weekend… the box is so vintage is still has Visual Studio 6 installed on it.

Yippie freakin E.