Although it was a 3 day weekend, it was broken in the middle by a scheduled monthly downtime at work so from 11pm Saturday night until about 3:30am Sunday morning I was at work patching and rebooting servers. (Being just under 5 hours means it was a smashing success..)
Kevin performed his final evening of “Once Upon a Mattress” (Video clips are coming.. I know!) on Saturday. Grandma Carolyn and Adele were able to make this showing as was Melissa. After 6 or 7 nights this was their most polished performance! I wish I had been there to record that showing, but I got some good footage anyway.
Nathan our “Other” boy was with us all weekend as well, which was a nice change from Kevin disappearing to Nathan’s house.
On Sunday I woke up and kept my promise of gutting the X-Box and cleaning it.
After a few hours of locating the expertly hidden #20 Hex screws preventing access to the mysterious inner workings of the X-Box and delicately cleaning our old faithful gaming system from it’s 1.5 year hibernation, I loaded Halo 2 and we all waited anxiously as the music pulsed through our speakers and the loading screen buzzed with activity. I was thrilled to see Master Chief on our 46″ LCD TV. THIS is how Halo SHOULD have been played all along!
Here it comes… the main menu.. we go to the character loading screen.. there’s Moonhunter, Dadzilla, Achooka… all our guys were there! We load our characters, select a death match and hit “Launch”…
A few more minutes of high anticipation and there it is! “Your disc cannot be read… you suck…”
Sigh.
Well, at least 95% of our other discs worked and we played some Fusion Frenzy, Burnout 3, Brute Force and Star Wars: Battlefront 2! From that point on it was a 4 player massive split screen gaming party! Welcome back to the land of the living old friend X-Box. We missed you.
Monday was MLK Jr. day so the kids stayed home and gamed some more and Cody-Man went to work with me! We had a very good day together. He always has something dear and cute to say.
“Daddy, Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He was a good man who worked hard to make people treat brown and black people better… and a bad man shot him. It was only one bad man though, most people liked him.”
