Due to a leaky wall (yes wall) in my house I no longer have a working Xbox, because water and electronics don't play nice with each other. It's my own fault really. I couldn't resist putting my Xbox next to a wall, I mean it was just so tempting. I wanted to live on the edge. But that's the price we pay for living a reckless life, you wind up dead or in jail...or in my case stuck with a wet video game console. Since I was always taught to make the best of a bad situation, I've come up with some inventive ways I can use my broken Xbox. 

 Due to events that transpired last Friday I requested to write the Things That Suck blog this week.

Every Thursday DYHP talks about something that's overated, useless, or just plain sucks. This week I discuss red lights. No, I'm not talking about the traffic kind, (even though one of those did cost me three hundred dollars, maybe that's another blog) I'm talking about the red light that rears it's ugly head in the front of your Xbox. Yes, that red light, or specifically the "Red Ring of Death". Now imagine, if you will, you pass the Traget on your way to work and you realize, "Hey, I have enough time to run in there and get Rock Band 3". So now you've made your purchase and you've been waiting all day to get home and play it, but then things take an ugly turn. Your new game gets all the way to the "Start" screen and then just freezes. That horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach saved for fear and the death of a loved one begins to show. You try again and again to restart the Xbox with no avail until finally, with sweaty palms, you unplug and plug the power cord. Before pressing the button you think, "It's not a Red Ring. This thing happens to other people not me, not me." However, God does not smile upon you this day as you soon realize your fate is sealed, and it comes in the form of a Red Ring. This happened to me last Friday as it has happened to countless people in the past. Two hours later, after I finished crying, I realized I needed to talk about this and I figured what better therapy than a blog.

Hello Fred, I've come to ruin your holiday and rape your soul.

But having all your hopes and dreams of gaming bliss ruined in an instant isn't the only reason "Red Rings of Death" suck...