...just a good thing they weren't auctioning cake...

with the new dispatch rotation, everyone has to do one week of dispatching every 2 or 3 months. this is my week. i hate sitting still for this long. there is not enough email sent to me, or things i want to look up on the internet... there is no way i'm going to be entertained for 12 hours at a time for 7 days. that doesn't stop me from trying......i've bought guitar strings, pretty well caught up on email, and have surfed as much as the firewall will let me. i even found the end of the internet. i'm pretty sure it's the end, or a sign the end is near anyways. it's called www.yetisports.org ...countless hours of fun batting penguins. i am assured, however, that no penguins were hurt in the making of these games... ...where i got into trouble was ebay. it all started innocently enough. i bought a pair of flip flops that i had ordered months ago and never got delivered. i guess they were backordered for so long that they decided to cancel the order. so anyways, i got a heck of a deal on the flip flops i wanted. then i decided to followup with my desire for an xbox. ...if you remember, i came damn close to buying a PS2 with the DDR pack a while back. it would've involved buying a tv, and spending $199 was more than i wanted to do. well, i scored a small tv for free over the last couple of months. and i like the xbox better. (and, fyi, they also make DDR for the xbox... it's important to note) and, i can use it as a dvd player...the dvd player option probably doesn't seem real important... after all, i've been playing dvd's on my laptop for 9 months now, right? well, what i've learned is that some dvd's feel the need to add noise to their root menus. not such a big deal when you start the movie... but when you fall asleep to, let's say for example, "harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban" and wake up after 4 hours of the little jamacian shrunken head saying "watch da pea soup...ya bettah eat it before it each-u!" ...well, you wake up from som pretty fucked up dreams. another one is the beginning to "finding nemo". ellen degeneres's voice might not be a bad thing to sleep to... some people might like it. don't knock it till you try it. however, i could do without the "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." song. but i digress. the point is that the tv has a timer. not, contrary to popular opinion, that i need the remote control. my room is 5' by 9'. i'm not that lazy...wow... so where was i going with this? oh yeah, so i bought an xbox. and with a total of 4 games on their way to me... i will be more than set for the next 2 months. however, if "john madden's football 2006" contains his pearls of wisdom narrated by Captain Obvious himself... well, i'll have to learn to play in the mute mode...