On Monday, Rick’s Xbox360 came back from getting repaired. It had the 3 Red Lights of Death. For Xbox owners, that’s the equivalent of flatlining. But now things are better than ever. The first thing we did was go out and get Guitar Hero 2. Can I just say those Harmonix people are geniuses!?

I remember a couple of years ago being in Best Buy and they had the original Guitar Hero on the Playstation 2 demo console there. I watched someone play and thought it was just some cheap game with a silly expensive guitar-looking controller. Shortly after I began hearing how cool it was. Bands playing it constantly while on tour. Then there was the MLB pitcher who missed a game because he injured himself playing GH. And then there was the guy who started the site “Guitar Hero broke my knee” after an especially raucous session.

Anyway, Guitar Hero 2 is awesome and I can’t put it down.

I also set up Vista as a media extender for the Xbox. So now I can watch videos and listen to music from my computer on the home theater downstairs. Pretty cool! Now if I could only get it to play Xvid and Quicktime files…