In case I have not mentioned this before, my job is killing me. I did two double shifts last week on Thursday and Friday and there's probably more to come. In case anyone is wondering what I do for a living, I'm a Communications Manager for a limousine company that provides transportation to corporate clients. My job is to make sure that all the reservations and communications software is run properly. Recently, we just haven't had enough people to cover the shifts so my co-worker and I had to fill in the slots. Both on Thursday and Friday last week, him and I started work at 7:00am and finished at 11:00pm. The total of hours for those two days I had to sleep was only 4 hours. Honestly, I don't mean to sound like a baby, but I hope the next time I'm pulling a double I will actually be training someone to fill in the empty slots.

Now to the subject. Even though I was unbelievably tired on Friday night and literally crawled home, the second wind has struck me. Instead of going right to bed, I started playing some Gears Of War. Just as I intended to do this weekend, I beat the casual difficulty. Honestly speaking, before i finished this setting, I constantly criticised the weak story line. But after playing the campaign, I must say that the game keeps you so busy that you really forget about it. I played a few chapters on co-op over the Xbox Live and also some multiplayer matches. It's just too bad that there is no matchmaking or party features in the multiplayer and the patch that was released did absolutely nothing to fix it. While playing on Saturday, I somehow would always end up on the team of people the same skill level as me, and the other team would always be more skilled than us. Basically we got our asses handed to us. Still, win or lose, I found the multiplayer a lot of fun, just tried to rack up my kills, and increase my skills. Maybe not for the rest of you, but for me going from 1 kill a game to 4 kills is a big step since I have never played this game online before. This coming weekend, I' am planning to start playing on hardcore. I' am figuring that I should be able to finish it during those days of rest. I have been checking the Achieve360points.com website and I found out that there are 12 cog tags in act 1 alone, I missed like half of them. So I also will be spending time collecting the rest of those. My goal right now is to get enough for at least a "Honor-Bound" achievement. I'am also shooting for "I Can't Quit You Dom" achievement so if anyone wants to do some co-op, just send me a PM over XBL. My gamertag is MGorin247.