Well, that was a fun 12 hours.

After playing several hours of games, including a good session of Mass Effect, my Xbox decided to bring out its old friend: E73.

Sigh. I’ll tackle it again tomorrow, although I’m still holding out hope that American Express comes through with their extended warranty. It looks like the options now are to do greater surgery/research or just bite the bullet and send it in to Microsoft and cough up the $100 repair fee.

It’s been a somewhat exhilarating and severely disappointing day, a roller coaster of Microsoft hardware emotion.

I also mowed the lawn, so it wasn’t a complete loss of a day.