Charlie’s Haus

Well my last post was September 24th.  What happened since then?  Halo 3.  Yes Halo 3.  Thats it.  It was released at 12:01am on Sept 25th.  I was waiting in line for it.  I got my copy at around 12:20am, and drove home and played till about 3am. I took off work cause I knew I couldnt make it through the day thinking of my poor game wanting to be played.  I played for 7 hours straight on Tuesday (minus a small break to gulp some lunch down and a few restroom breaks).  It was all worth it.  The bad news is the game was pretty short (only took about 8 hours to beat it), the good news is that the story was phenominal, and ended the trilogy awesomely.  I cant wait for the next game staring Master Chief (the ending leaves no doubt there will be more…they just wont be called halo is all). 

I then picked up an xbox Live subscription for the next year, so I can play my games online against other people.  That is pretty fun. 

Other than that, I was sick =(  Mandi had a cold for about a week, then friday it hit me hard.  I spent the weekend doing not much of anything.  Just hanging around and watching tv/sleeping.  It was worth it though because Im already starting to feel better (cold wise I feel better, Im just sleepy). 

The only other note-able thing is we finally got our roof replaced.  It was damaged a little over a year ago in a hail storm.  We havent gotten the final bill yet, but its gonna cost more than our deductable.  After they tore the shingles off, they found some of the wood was rotten.  So they had to replace it.  Still, for what we got and the price, we cant go wrong.  We ended up with 30 year architectural shingles, so a much better shingle, and a ridge vent instead of the turtle shell vents.  That should help with some a/c costs.  It looks really nice and took the crew about a day and a half from start to finish.  They worked crazy fast. 

Well Sunday I waited in the cold at Circuit City for two hours and got myself a shiney new Wii console.  Its a decent system, but not as cool as the 360 still.  Modchips are out for it already and I may have to snag one when the homebrew software hits the market.  That was the best part about my original xbox, it was litterally able to do just about anything.  It could even be a PC or an old arcade game emulator.  The 360 has yet to be hacked (you can play backups already, but nothing else cool).  The wii should be pretty easy to do some nifty stuff with.

This morning I opened up Target and got a copy of Wii Play.  Its got 9 mini games and has an extra controller bundled with it, good news considering the “wiimotes” are pretty tough to come by.  My opening target also snagged me the only wiimote they got in stock today.  So now I have 3 wiimotes, should be good for awhile. 

Mandi is hooked on the wii bowling.  She has kicked my ass everytime we play.  Its a good time though.