My Christmas Present: RROD
posted by Extortioner @ 1:43pm, Wednesday 24 December 2008.
Yep, it's one of those days.
I was quite happy because you know, it's Christmas and all, the season to be jolly.
I'd decided to play some GTA4 so I boot my 360. Everything works fine, it boots and all and then it happened...
The screen went blank and the horrible 3 little red lights appeared on my 360.
If you've seen Revenge of the Sith you'll get me when I say:
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".
Off course my first reaction was to call Microsoft Support to see if maybe there was something I could do, but no.
The verdict was: busted, you have to send him in.
They'll send me the shipping papers, I have to put my 360 into a generic box (they were quite firm on that), and call UPS to have him picked up.
I heard UPS so I thought "oh, that's not to bad, it won't take that long" but no, when I asked how long it would take, the customer support guy (with an unmistakable dutch accent, but hey, still beats Indian support when you're English/American) told me it would take around 15 business days once they receive it.
15 business days + Christmas/new year's eve means a whole while if you ask me.
Great holiday so far!
On a brighter note I'm finally going to get a new cellphone for my Christmas/birthday (Sony Ericsson G502, google it yourself if you're interested), and I'm turning 20 next week.
Although I don't really consider that as something positive, because it makes you wonder what you've achieved these last 20 years and the verdict is: nothing.
I could become real emo right now and wear black stuff and such, but I'm not like that.
I see this as an opportunity for me to say: "I'm going to make sure I take control of my life, and that in the coming few years I'm going to achieve more than I have the last 20 years!".
That was it for today, quite a rant and such but I just needed to get it off my chest, even if noone actually reads this.
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