the day the zune stood still

so, much to my dismay. my zune has locked up and ceased all functionality whatsoever. i have had it for a year, and i have tried to be gentle with it as humanly possible. still, i feared the worst. turns out, this is not an incident affecting me alone. seemingly everyone own a 30gb zune -- which is pretty much the first generation if it were an iPod -- have locked up in a similar matter. so i decided to check out the zune website and see if they had any information seeing as how it had already gone pandemic. get this, the 30gb zune has a flaw in it where it is not able compensate for the extra day in a leap year. really!? i mean is this the first leap year ever? so the solution is to sit and wait until tomorrow when it should reset itself back to the first, and they hope to have it fixed or patched by next leap year in 2012. so, i am stuck without music for at least the rest of my drive to work later. which only sucks because it is new years eve, and i am almost positive it will be ridiculously busy on the roads tonight. even more so at the bars, one of which i will be serving at this evening. if you plan to drink at all, call a cab. if you drink at a friends house, see if you can crash there later. just do not get totally sloshed and hop behind the wheel afterward. it is not as if police won't be out looking for that on this, the most drinkingest night of the year.

thanks to everyone for all the grand birthday and christmas wishes. as well as the many giftcards i received. the thing about giftcards, and i think this is what people overlook, they enable you to get someone exactly what they want. i know i did. i bought a 120gb harddrive for my xbox 360, and it was a welcomed upgrade let me tell you. no more deleting any of my dlc to make room for new stuff. i also picked up seasons one and two of heroes on dvd. while i was there, i grabbed a copy of labyrinth as well, that is some good tv viewing right there. i also got denny's giftcards, and normally i think giving food giftcards is really lame. in this case, however, i think they actually put a lot of thought into it. the reason being is that after a shift at the bar, the other bartenders and myself will often frequent denny's. so it is actually a really we planned out giftcard. plus, it came with coupons!

on a quick note, not only is tomorrow new year's day, but it is also the first day of the 100k for Child's Play. what is that you may ask yourself. well, hopefully i will be able to explain more about that tomorrow. suffice it to say, that my friends came up with a really cool idea, and i jumped at the chance to be a part of it because it is a charity i really believe in.