Bathed in the Green Glow of Xbox
As I alluded by mentioning Halo in my tale of Monday sickness, the Tidball household is now Xbox enabled. Matt Colville told me I should buy a Playstation (not because it was better, because he thought it would be a better career move), but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The games I really wanted to play aren't available on PS2, and I recall reading someone's commentary (Will's?) that you should buy the same console all your friends have, because then you share the experience.
Buying the Xbox is part of the first phase of my employment backup plan. (That is, the plan for ongoing gainful employment in the event that screenwriting doesn't cough up some cash in the short term.) This plan involves educating myself on the current state of the video game industry so I can have a reasonable shot at writing and design jobs or contracts in that arena. (Reacquainting myself with Dreamweaver is the flip side of phase one, where I do what amounts to the same thing in the web design marketplace.)
The only real downside to the Xbox purchase thus far is that Halo has completely distracted me from Max Payne, which I had been playing on my Mac and gotten about seventy percent of the way through. I haven't played even a little of that for a week.
In answer to Will's question in Monday's comments section ("Is your Xbox Live?") the answer is no, not for the moment. However, when the time comes that sixty bucks has been spent and ethernet cable has been run under the house from office hub to living room entertainment center, I'll let all y'all know I'm open for business.
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