financially irresponsible moves

Well, and yes, I strode out into the world tonight with Sarah and my wallet and replaced the 360. Crazy behavior? Yes. The way it happened: after imagining this four-day weekend spent reading and writing and maybe working out and cleaning up the apartment I knew that something more hedonistic and slothful had to be done, and decided to rent a console, and realized after online research that this was nearly impossible. I then decided to buy a cheap one off ebay in the Orlando area so that I could stream like crazy across town to pick it up and after seeing the selling prices of them so near the retail prices decided it would be easier and quicker to just go to the store and buy a cheapo system sans hard drive and ebay it in the future future when my busted red-ringed machine returns from the dead in its cardboard casket.

But then the challenge was to find an open retail store. Best Buy: no. Toys R Us: No. Gamestop: No. Target: No. Walmart: (dejected-sounding lady on the other end of the phone line): "We're open 24 hours."

So went to Wal-Mart with Sarah and bought the 360 and margarita mix and energy drinks and veggie lasagna and Left 4 Dead. So: if you own this game, hop on later. I am to be up till at least dawn celebrating the day off by shooting as many ghouls as possible.