I actually was able to get some gaming time in last night. I played House of The Dead III (one of my original Xbox games) I took out all the bosses until I reached the end. I couldn’t figure out his weak spot. I’ll take him out today. I don’t think there is a save on that game so if you are killed, happened to me once yesterday, you have to start all over again. That’s a fast game I reached the last boss in about twenty or thirty minutes.

I used to be a hardcore gamer then my daughter came along, lol. Its pretty frustrating trying to get back where I used to be.

I’ve worked out a “plan” where I can play games at least a few times per week let’s see if “my plan” actually works. LOL I love Gears of War! I cannot wait for Mass Effect to come out.

I definitely wasn’t pleased. I blocked the card since I didn’t know how the info was acquired. It really bothered me that I was getting nowhere with Xbox Live.

I have read customers (Xbox Live) complain about this happening before. It happened to one of my friends also. She had a similar issue came home to a email stating that she had purchase points and like myself except her young child she is the only one living in her house.

I really hope they get that part of their customer service straightened out. I’m hoping that was an isolated incident. It was obvious the two that helped me were reading directly from script now that was funny.

That was almost as bad as “Verizon Tech support” telling me that there was no way I could have Dual 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet ports on my PowerMac G5 my computer because they didn’t make computers like that, lol.

I had to call M$ a few hours ago. I arrived home yesterday to find that I had purchased 5,000 points from Xbox live, yesterday, for $61. The thing is I never purchased it, and I haven’t been on there in weeks. My daughter and I were gone the entire day. No one was at home.

I take that back there was “several someone’s” home. My pets. Maybe my dogs or ferrets racked up those charges? I haven’t been on Xbox live in about three weeks and that was only to download Halo Beta that I never got to play! I don’t play against anyone yet, and I never participated in chats.

I was polite with my M$ rep but trying to get him to see how this could possibly happen got me nowhere. The supervisor gave me the same song and dance. I read word for word the statement issued from Microsoft in March that they were investigating this very problem.

I got off the phone and called my bank. The rep was a lot nicer and after I told her that there was an authorized charge she instantly asked me “Is it the Xbox live charge?” It seems that they, Bank of America, have been having a lot of customers who’ve run into this very issue with M$.

I agree M$ should make Xbox Live a lot easier. Trying to do the simplest things is a nightmare I was wondering as I unwillingly played the needle in the haystack game, “Why in the world isn’t this simpler? I went on xbox live, after I canceled my check card, and changed my password information.

Whoops sorry for ranting, lol.