So yesterday, my roommate's launch 360 finally gave him the RRoD.

*moment of silence*

Okay, so granted it WAS a launch 360 and was really just on borrowed time, but it's still sad. Now I can't play any of the awesome games that me and him have bought over the last 6 months. :(

Anyways, time to give the Wii some usage until he figures what to do with it. It's way past warranty time, and I have no idea if he's willing to get it fixed or whatnot. We just have to see.

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Besides that, I'm actually doing pretty good. Things are going pretty smoothly at my job, with the exception of last Tuesday and Wednesday where it was snowing here. Keep in mind, snow here is absurdly rare, not to mention we got over an inch of it here. But what really made things crazy was when everything, including the university, was delayed until 10 am.

The local transportation infrastructure (everything, including roads, traffic lights etc) is not designed to handle a massive exodus where everyone is trying to get somewhere at the very exact same time. Just imagine normal rush hour traffic except twice as bad, because you've got college students (all 40k+ of them), plus the local grade schools, plus everyone who has a job, trying to get somewhere at the exact same time.

Normally things are staggered, but since virtually the entire city decided 10 am was the magic hour to open (the roads weren't even icy... it was a silly call to make, as the water on the roads did not freeze overnight) it was madness. Keep in mind, this is the ridiculous mess that happens in Texas when it snows.

Then again, there was enough snow to build this: