Xbox is dead! Long live the Xbox!

January 10, 2010 9:27 PM

Another day of excitement and potential peril today as Phil and I decide that we might venture as far a field as Oxford today. Not as stupid as it sounds, our run out was to serve several purposes. One, to give Phil a test run as to what it'll be like getting to work tomorrow as he really needs to go in to do stuff that can only be done in the office and two (and less importantly) to go an exchange our Watchmen blu-ray that we bought from HMV which is broken and doesn't play in any of our blu-ray players without making so much racket you'd think it was about to take off or something.

Thirdly, we made the decision last night to replace our now fixed but will shortly crap out xbox. I noticed last night that it was having trouble doing saves etc and was quite juddery and so despite our best efforts in breathing new life into the disable device I think we might have to euthanase it permanently. In it's place we've decided to go for an xbox super elite, and the only place we'll get that would be at Game in Oxford.

The trip in to Oxford was fine and the roads were clear all the way there which was a relief though we weren't in town for long, just enough time to swap the blu-ray, get the xbox and me to pick up an engagement card for my friend. We didn't even stop for lunch, most unlike us, instead we saved on the parking and were on our way home about an hour after we arrived.

Back at the house and Phil sets up the new xbox and sets about transferring all of our game data from the old to the new which takes quite a bit of time. While he is doing that I nip out and get some cheese as I'd forgotten to get it yesterday and we then have more toasted sandwiches for lunch, nice!

The afternoon is spent playing fable 2 again and then we watch some of Watchmen, but at 3 hours long this particular cinematic experience is going to have to be done over several sessions.

Heading to bed now, and it looks like the snow has started again... uh oh!