Well, I thought I'd found the one Xbox 360 from that initial batch of systems that was immune to all this "Red ring of death" madness but if finally happened. Curious thing is, I installed the Mercenaries 2 patch mere seconds before it died. It downloaded the patch, rebooted the game and then choked and died. Maybe the patch did it or it was just a coincidence, I don't know. Either way, its seems I will be without an Xbox 360 for about a month, which has never happened before. Still, getting it repaired seems like it won't be to difficult, there is no cost and it should only take three weeks plus mailing time and whatnot. Still, I'm thinking this may be some message from the fates to upgrade to an Elite. Its dropping in price in two days and that install feature is coming up with the fall update and that would basically require a bigger hard-drive. I must think about this.

Oh, and even though no one reads this I plan to go really in-depth regarding my experiences at PAX 2008 in the near future, just waiting on obtaining some pictures I took at the show (borrowed a camera).