right on bro!

Yesterday I went to buy an Xbox, but found out there’s an Xbox shortage. Went to four stores and they were all sold out, except for a hamshack in Glendale that was selling a wack package that meant paying more for 6 games that I didn’t want, and they refused to sell the system separately. I finally found an Xbox from the Sears at Santa Monica & Wiltern, of all places - and it was the very last one.

You would think that there would be plenty of Xboxes available, but whatever. I got one. I celebrated my acquisition by vowing to set everything up last night after dinner, and then falling right asleep after dinner, waking up at 6:30 A.M. this morning. I guess I needed the sleep pretty badly.

Other than that, it was just stuff like handling bills, unpacking, re-stocking the fridge, and what not. Oddly enough, it feels like nothing much here changed while I was gone. I was hoping somebody would construct a Gap here in Los Feliz to drive away the cool people and therefore make parking a lot easier in my neighborhood, but that didn’t happen. Maybe next road trip.

Something useful: The feds have mandated that we get a free credit report every year from each of the 3 major credit agencies. If you live in the west, you can get yours now from annualcreditreport.com. East coast people are gonna have to wait until next year. You answer a bunch of questions and they generate the report on the spot for you, which is pretty cool. What’s not cool is I found out I have some other names (that aren’t mine) attached to my account, so I’m gonna have to clear that up. But it doesn’t look like anyone took out a mortgage in my name, so that’s good.