The 'What happened to you today' thread

The Raven · Post by **The Raven** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:18 am

Rexana wrote: Oslo next year, then.

... Oslo IS Norway's capital city, right? *brain has melted*

Yes, Oslo IS Norway's capital city.

ironmaiden83 · Post by **ironmaiden83** » Sun May 17, 2009 3:28 pm

I dropped my bass on my foot today. While it was still in the case. My toes are purple. I think The Most Unholy One is rubbing off on me.

Yeepo · Post by **Yeepo** » Sun May 17, 2009 3:37 pm

ironmaiden83 wrote:I dropped my bass on my foot today. While it was still in the case. My toes are purple. I think The Most Unholy One is rubbing off on me.

Ouch, that must've hurt!

Today I've cleaned the house. And I HATE our @&#¤& vacuum cleaner,
and I think that it hates me too. The reason I put mysef through this is
that I get paid, which means I can buy a new computer! I haven't got that
much money left to make, so YAY!

leroybrown · Post by **leroybrown** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:08 pm

yeepo wrote: Today I've cleaned the house. And I HATE our @&#¤& vacuum cleaner,
and I think that it hates me too. The reason I put mysef through this is
that I get paid, which means I can buy a new computer! I haven't got that
much money left to make, so YAY!

I hear you. I hate all vacuum cleaners with a passion. They were all designed to be as loud and as obnoxious as possible to wake me up during a sound sleep. I swear one of these days im going to invent one thats silent.

Dark Lord Cam · Post by **Dark Lord Cam** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:23 pm

save us all the frustration and do it already!

satan_n_stuff · Post by **satan_n_stuff** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:29 pm

I finally got my wireless network working, i'm posting this from my cell phone.

Yeepo · Post by **Yeepo** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:01 pm

leroybrown wrote:
yeepo wrote: Today I've cleaned the house. And I HATE our @&#¤& vacuum cleaner,
and I think that it hates me too. The reason I put mysef through this is
that I get paid, which means I can buy a new computer! I haven't got that
much money left to make, so YAY!
I hear you. I hate all vacuum cleaners with a passion. They were all designed to be as loud and as obnoxious as possible to wake me up during a sound sleep. I swear one of these days im going to invent one thats silent.

Come on and start working!
And if you succeed, you will be my hero!

Vargon · Post by **Vargon** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:22 pm

I did lots of revision for my two and a half hour maths exam tomorrow. I definitely didn't waste the day listening to rap music and talking to people on MSN.

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Mon May 18, 2009 3:47 am

Well I saw Angels and Demons today. Pretty good movie.

Then I basically spent 5 hours playing with my new iPod. Well, it isn't very new, my brother got a new one and I got the old one. But it's better than a Shuffle, IT HAS A SCREEN! Yay for me.

Oh, and BTW, I just had an earthquake. About, three minutes ago.

Dark Lord Cam · Post by **Dark Lord Cam** » Mon May 18, 2009 3:49 am

me too kestral

it was a pretty big one.

my dog was shaking and went to hide under the bed....XD

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Mon May 18, 2009 3:54 am

MY dog didn't seem to mind. My cat was freaking out though.

Dark Lord Cam · Post by **Dark Lord Cam** » Mon May 18, 2009 3:56 am

it was actually quite funny. she was sleeping on the floor and as soon as the shaking started fwoop! she dives under the bed and sticks her head out to look at me.

Blue the Thief · Post by **Blue the Thief** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:09 am

*Clears throat* Well, lets see here....

To date, my list of console breakdowns are:

.Playstation broke when I was little, got it sent overseas to get fixed. My fault, as I wasn't too careful with it. Age: 1 year

.Playstation broke again year later, though my stepdad got it working with no problems a few months ago. Age: 2 years

.GameCube got clogged with dust, again, sent overseas to be fixed. Age: 3-5 years or so.

.Playstation 2 video/audio plug broke (The one in the machine). Yet to be fixed. Age: 1 year (If you see the pattern, you'll know why I hate Sony

)

.Both of my Stepdad's Xbox’s (One he bought, the other he got in a phone deal thing) are suffering from dust clogging and now overheat quickly. Yet to be fixed. Age: Unknown

And the newest entry to the list, the one, the only, the.....

XBOX 360 Age: 8 months

Yes, the good ol' 360, and do you know what killed it? In short:

THE RED RING OF DEATH

In long, however, My Stepdad reckons that the little thing that reads the disc is jammed, most likely dust (I hate dust

) and thus the machine counts that as a "General hardware failure" or red ring time.

So, of all my consoles, the only ones that haven't broken for any reason are:

My Wii. But it's only about 1 year and 8 months old, so no surprise, but the one that is really shocking is:

The Nintendo 64.

The. Nintendo. 64.

The Nintendo 64.

The freaking 64 has lasted the most out of everything.

Nothing, I've had this since I was 6, so that’s a whopping 9-10 years that its lasted, and we've had no problems with it, aside from it sometimes overheating during summer, when I had been playing it for a while.

So, what’s going on? You'd hope that, as time goes on, system failures would become less and less, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, so my question to Microsoft and Sony (And to a lesser extent, Nintendo) is:

W.T.F

Why is this happening? And don't give me "It's a new console" because thats what testing teams are for, keep the freaking console in testing for longer before you release it and end up with an angry kid holding a baseball bat on your doorstep, its simple.

Also, what really bugged me is that I had no warning.

Here’s how my day my 360 broke went:

.Woke up
.Had breakfast
.Played Oblivion
.Went shopping for a while.
.Rented Pure for the night.
.Came home to play Pure
.Got confused that my 360 was not working
.Found out what the red ring meant.
.Had a hissy fit.
.talked it over with stepdad while reading warranty
.Had another hissy fit

.Switched Pure for Sonic and the Black Knight (Not that bad

)

In other words, it was working, then 3 hours later it died on me.

You know what? Screw it. Where’s my knife and map of Bill Gates mansion?

Dark Lord Cam · Post by **Dark Lord Cam** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:24 am

quite a long rant there....

but dont worry call the xbox helpline and you can get your conolse fixed ina bout two weeks.

Blue the Thief · Post by **Blue the Thief** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:47 am

Dark Lord wrote:quite a long rant there....

but dont worry call the xbox helpline and you can get your conolse fixed ina bout two weeks.

Yeaaaah.... Sorry 'bout that

And I know that, I'm just trying to find the receipt so it get's covered by warranty.

Sublymonal · Post by **Sublymonal** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:30 am

Warranty-schmaranty, I usually just fix the darn things myself. [You wouldn't believe how much dust my old PS2 collected before I first opened it up...]

On that note, today I noticed Vargon has been demoted and Caz is now a moderator...

Yeepo · Post by **Yeepo** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:06 pm

I realised today that in one week me and a classmate are supposed to hold a lesson for 40 minutes in Danish. Great, or not.

Ok, a really disgusting huge fly entered my room through the window

weka · Post by **weka** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:32 pm

Sublymonal wrote:...today I noticed Vargon has been demoted and Caz is now a moderator...

Huh. Cause what I noticed was that yesterday, Vargon chose to take a break from being a Mod, and Caz has stepped in. Whether or not Vargon ever feels like being one again I guess is up to him, and whoever are the current mods at that time, if it happens.

Huge diff between that and being "demoted".

Today I have a skin prob that's flared up. It's been gettin worse for nearly a week now, but today, all across the top of my left shoulder, and the back of my neck is burning. It feels like really really severe sunburn, even feels really hot when I touch it. But to look at it, you can't see anything. Good thing I don't have to be in an office today, where I'd need to be wearin clothes on that shoulder.

On the much brighter side, the sun came out today! Hip hip hip horay, the sun has got his hat on and he's comin out to play!

Cactus · Post by **Cactus** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:07 pm

Indeed, Vargon voluntarily stepped down and Caz was asked to take his place. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but it's best not to make assumptions like that.

On Topic:
My brother's down to visit for the week whilst I'm on vacation. We've been playing and writing music. We played for an audience of one earlier over Skype. Kinda weird playing for someone 4000+ miles away, but twas fun.

I just hope they enjoyed it.

Dogmantra · Post by **Dogmantra** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:28 pm

Sublymonal wrote:Caz is now a moderator...

Awww...
I thought I was in with a chance now

ironmaiden83 · Post by **ironmaiden83** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:39 pm

I kicked my own butt in Soul Calibur IV today. EPIC FAIL!!!!

Arrrrgh, two more nights of work. I'm ready for my weekend!

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:03 pm

Cactus wrote:On Topic:
My brother's down to visit for the week whilst I'm on vacation. We've been playing and writing music. We played for an audience of one earlier over Skype. Kinda weird playing for someone 4000+ miles away, but twas fun. I just hope they enjoyed it.

Don't worry I'm sure they did

Especially if it was a good friend, for them it's always nice to hear your work...

Leilah · Post by **Leilah** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:06 pm

I spent my day attempting to prepare for my theory of poetry exam next Monday but I have no idea whether I understand the work or not so I just gave up and watched TV.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:14 pm

Leilah wrote:I spent my day attempting to prepare for my theory of poetry exam next Monday but I have no idea whether I understand the work or not so I just gave up and watched TV.

Now THAT is what I call a good days work

I finished my history homework and printed it out right before I walked out the door, now I have to finish a paper I've been working on. Tomorrow I get to work all day on a presentation I haven't done much for yet cos I need to show my teacher how I'm getting along on Wednesday morning. When that presentation is over, I have to start on the next one. Will this ever end...?

leroybrown · Post by **leroybrown** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:30 pm

Kestral wrote: Oh, and BTW, I just had an earthquake. About, three minutes ago.

Ya know living in florida my whole life thats something i have never experienced but have always wondered what thats like. I have seen countless hurricanes but thats it.