oak tree you're in my way

today wrapped up a busy week at work. we had less people on the phones this week, so instead of having 2 1/2 hours of available time a day, we usually had the lines backed up with people on hold. i don't mind being busier than we were before, but going from around two hours of available time a day to less than 10 minutes is a little bit of an extreme.

i'm seeing less and less reason to buy an xbox 360. i'm not sold on any of the next-generation consoles at this point, but the 360 just keeps slipping further down the list. there's really no way i'm going to shell out $400 for the premium system. its got too many things i don't need, like a headset for online play (no microsoft, there's still no way i'm going to pay you monthly to let me play your games online. i'll stick with pc games when i want multiplayer fun online) and a media remote controller. it does come with the 20gb hard drive that you need to play games from the original xbox, but that's something i think should have come standard with the system. but the $300 version, or the "crippled" version as someone else put it, is simply too bare bones to be worth getting either. plus, there really aren't any exclusive games that i know of that seem worth getting. halo 3 can rot for all i care, i can get any new games in the kotor series on pc, so a new jade empire game is the only thing i can think of that i would miss out on. most other games i've seen are also coming out for pc, so i'd just stick with them.

i've been reading donald miller's through painted deserts that i got a week ago. its pretty good; not quite the same style as blue like jazz or searching for god knows what since its more of a story, but its still good nonetheless. i also got it shipped to me before it actually came out since i ordered it through that website, so that was cool too.

austin and i are talking about trying to find a two person apartment by september since everything else fell through. we'll see if anything happens with that.