Archive for the 'nintendo wii' Category

Red Ring of Death

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Unfortunately for us our XBox 360 has succumbed to the red ring of death phenomena. We found an interesting tutorial on Youtube which indicated that wrapping the XBox in towels for 20 minutes can some times fix the problem, and that actually worked! The first two times, since then the XBox has begun flashing the [...]

Good Birthday

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I think it’s safe to say the munchkin had a good birthday. He’s flaked out willingly and gone to bed. He wound up not having a nap. He got a lot of nice gifts, and we all ate a lot of good food, and he got to play with our friend’s children. We had a [...]

Televisions and Gaming Systems

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I haven’t been much on playing with our XBox 360 since we moved because it’s up in the loft and I don’t like to be up there when the munchkin is awake because it’s all full of electronics that he could easily destroy. When he’s in bed then I feel I have other things that [...]

Gifts

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Our wedding anniversary is coming up and I’m trying to decide what to get my husband. It’s hard to think of what a thoughtful gift would be when he’s not really the kind of person who likes or wears men’s jewelry. Generally in this case it’s finding the appropriate video game or strange and unusual [...]

Video Games and Children

Monday, September 10th, 2007

As you might be able to tell by previous posts of mine, in particular one right before this, we have a video game system, in fact we have several. We have a Playstation 2, a Nintendo Wii and an XBox 360. A lot of games that we have we don’t play around my son because [...]