I asked MS for a box on Saturday, June 30th, so that I can send my Xbox back to them. It arrived Friday afternoon. I was pretty surprised that it took that long to ship an empty box.

The Xbox was stuffed into its coffin that night, and I dropped it off at the UPS store the next morning. Since it was Saturday (July 1st) and MS only chose to spring for “3 Day Select” shipping, it wouldn’t leave the store until Monday. With the Fourth of July in the middle of the week, the three day shipping jumped up to five days. Oh well, it could be worse. I just have to wait a little longer.

I tracked the package this morning and found that my Xbox was delivered. In April.

I spent a few moments trying to figure out exactly what technology was used to send my Xbox into the past. If it was, in fact, delivered in the past, then shouldn’t I already have it? Why didn’t it alter the timeline in some way; or maybe it did and I just didn’t know it.

Clearly, the Back to the Future marathon I sat through yesterday effected my common sense.

Looking through the history of this delivery, I found that UPS simply reuses tracking numbers. This practice boggles my mind, since the numbering system they use should allow for hundreds of thousands of tracking numbers at least. Even if they run out of numbers and have to reuse them, is it possible that they’d run out after only three months?

I’ll just chalk this one up to an error somewhere. My Xbox is still in Texas somewhere on its way to the repair center.

I loved it, and I’m happy that I can say those words, considering what I said to my work friends a few weeks ago:

I’m hyped for the movie, but I know it is going to be awful, so it is like walking into a trap.

I can’t imagine a Transformers fan going to see this movie and not liking it. Well, Nadia didn’t, but that’s really because of a particular scene that really robbed her of the ability to enjoy it. I’d share that scene with you, but it is a spoiler. She might come around in a few days.

This movie had a pretty good balance of drama, humor and action. The special effects were quite good, and fans of the series and comics will dig a few lines that are clearly in-jokes written just for them. If anything bugged me, it would be the fact that the original voice actor for Megatron was not used. Not that Hugo Weaving did a bad job at all. I was just hoping for the voice that I have always associated with Megs, since all the Optimus fans out there got his original voice.