No, I didn’t win this lamp! But for doing what I would likely have done anyway, I was selected as a first prize winner on a Play-N-Win Sweepstakes on Xbox Live!  I didn’t have to know the name of Tonto’s cousin’s horse or anything. I just happened to race in online multiplayer with Project Gotham 4 on the contest weekend back in November.

This week, a letter showed up from some company I had never heard of and as usual with that kind of mail, I just ignored it.  Meridith decided to open it before throwing it away and brought it in to show me.  Turns out, it was from the company that coordinates promotions for Xbox live and they included $200 of Microsoft Points to use on for content on Xbox Live. Now I can afford all of those Rock Band downloads every week!

It has been a long time since I updated here — Sorry! My xbox got fixed and mailed back after three weeks of waiting…

Since then, I got the wireless steering wheel (which created an xbox support nightmare of its own after they had a product recall involving me being without it from October through January!). The wheel totally rocks with Forza Motorsport 2, but for more arcade-like racing sometimes I still prefer the hand controller (with games like Dirt) .

Finally, even better than the Racing games are the Rock games! You know, Guitar Hero II, III and best of all, Rock Band! I know I’ll never be able to play a real guitar, but I can live vicariously though video games to play one on tv! And Rock Band’s drum kit is my favorite way to play. Whenever friends or family are over, Rock Band gets setup and we go to town with it!