In July Infinity Ward announced at E3 that they were having a beta for Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 sometime in August. I was pumped for that after being a member of their site since day one. This past Wednesday they open up a lotto where you could send in an e-mail answering three questions and hope to get selected. While it wasn't a small choosing of people, it wasn't large. Days went by and I wasn't in, but finally today I got in. Checked my e-mail and their was my code and the congratulations from Infinity Ward. So I am glad to play it before the big rush of people come in on Monday once it becomes more available to the public of those who live in the U.S.

Tonight I played a little with Earthking and I must say the beta is amazing. There are three maps and each one is designed well and offers a great experience. The classes you can choose to be and the ranking system is cool too. I am normally a Heavy Gunner and have liked the weapons the class offers. Infinity Ward really has produced a game that will be great on the day it releases, this just from the beta. I haven't experienced much lag, so it has been good.

If you got in we need to play and start a Party Group. I love games that have a Party system built-in. The matchmaking has been excellent too.

Anyways, I start back up on school on Wednesday. So comes the end of my summer and here I go back to school to have loads of fun. I'll be glad to see my friends I didn't see in the summer, but by the third week I'll be wanting Christmas to come. Luckily Halo 3 comes out on September 25th! Less than a month now!

This week I get to go back to football to at least help out at practice. I am glad because I have been getting bored being at home since I had my tonsils removed. Then the following week I should get to practice again. I am excited for that to happen.

Anyways, Call of Duty 4 is something you need to sign-up for if you have a Xbox 360. Go to CharlieOscarDelta.com and on Monday those who live in the U.S. have a good chance to get. It'll be at 12:00 P.M. EST.

All of this entire MLB season has been looked upon for one thing, and that is the day that Barry Bonds would break the home run record that was now once held by Hank Aaron. 756 now stands the number and counting. That is quite a record and will take quite a person to break it. That one guy could now easily be Alex Rodriguez, who is the youngest players to hit 500 home runs.

I was glad that I saw it live because it is something I do want to remember. It's always better to see it live then in highlights. While it will always be heavily disputed that Barry Bonds may have used steroids, it is hard to take away from the guy right now. As of now, he is still considered "clean." I consider this records as one of the most famous through out sports. Again, while I believe this will be a hard record to break, it won't be impossible like that of Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive game streak. Barry has again said he will continue to play baseball. I am not sure how many more seasons, but it will be interesting to see where he ends up at. He is near 3,000 hits also.

On a non-related sports note, well kind of, I am having my tonsils removed this Friday. It is due to me be constantly sick with strep throat and lately they have been really swollen effecting my breathing and my speaking. So I will miss about a month of football, according to my doctor, which sucks. So I'll have little to do until I can go back and at least help out.

Hopefully everyone who celebrated the 4th of July yesterday had a good time. I know I did lighting off a lot of fireworks and just hanging out with my friends. It really was just a basic day, but the fireworks were still great.

Anyways, today I had my wisdom removed from my mouth. I had known that this was going to happen since last year. All four of them were removed during one surgery, which I remember nothing of. I can remember after and before, as well as one thing during the surgery I believe. They started off by putting a bunch of heart monitors on me. Then came the IV and finally the "laughing gas." It didn't make me entirely goofy when I was aware, but right before I went out I was tending to giggle just at random things. During the surgery I only remember the doctors saying that I had some irritation where the heart monitors were, but that I would be ok. I then waited in a room to wait for some of the effects to where off, so I was told, and then it was time for me to go home. I could barely walk to the car and was just really tired.

Once I got home I nearly passed out since I was so tired, but had to take some narcotics and some other painkillers as well as eat some pudding. Then I just crashed in my basement for a few hours. I have been up for a few hours now and feel pretty good. There is no real pain, just an annoyance feeling in my mouth. I did bleed a lot and it got all over my pillow when I slept since the gauze popped out of my mouth. I thought I'd be a lot worse, but as of now I appear to be fine and hopefully it doesn't get worse. I got Chipotle to eat now, since a burrito sounds great.

In other news, I sent out my Xbox 360 a little over 2 weeks ago and still have not received it back from the repair center. When I called the support line, there apparently had been a delay. Great service there. Once I get it back I am going to try and get into Rainbow Six Vegas as well as get NCAA Football 08 soon.

So I guess it is time for me to eat and stay bored until I can hang out with my friends. Good thing I am getting back in to Age of Empires III.

Later everyone.

It's finally that time of the year again.  Considerably my best moment that I know comes every year at around the same time.  That's right, school is out.  Today was our last day and was short due to it being an exam schedule.  Our exams started on Monday.  I had two and got out at 12:00.  Yesterday, I had two exams, but only had off in between the two.  Then today I got out at 12:00 and went out to eat with some of my friends.  It felt good to realize that I have quite a bit of time off and can do a lot, such as sleep in and stay up late, hang out with my friends more, play more video games and a lot of other stuff that I'll just do.

Along with the summer starting, so is football camp.  I'll have some periodically throughout the summer as well as start two-a-days in August.  Great.  Otherwise I'll just be lifting and conditioning from now until then.  Still, I am excited that football season will start, but not really until two-a-days are finished.  Those really are annoying and destroy my August.  Then school will start again.  I really shouldn't get ahead of myself hear.

In other news, I should be getting my license within the next two weeks.  If not, then I will have quite a few issues and be very mad because I need to get that damn thing soon!  I really wish I could have gotten it on my birthday in the middle of last month.  I could be doing anything I wanted with all the time I had and life would just be easier, for now.

In video game related things, I plan on buying Shadowrun.  That is when I can find it.  I have been calling a local store everyday and they never have it and the same goes with Circuit City.  These are the two closest place, but I am really surprised that Circuit City doesn't have it since mine is normally well stocked.  While Shadowrun did receive a lot of average reviews from the reviewers of sites and magazines, a majority of the community is saying that it is a pretty damn good game.  This considering you are a multiplayer kind of person, in which I am.  I have no real large issue with there being no true single player campaign, although it always makes a game a good amount better.  Whenever I can find Shadowrun I will buy it.  Hopefully this is really soon, like this weekend.

Let the summer roll in and be sure that I will make great use of all the time that I have off.  Hopefully you all are too, or will when you can.

Up until recently I didn't plan on getting till this Christmas.  Once my birthday came up two weeks ago, I had received enough money to get a Wii.  Now, I wasn't wanting one just because I had enough money, but because it was looking tempting after I noticed all the games out now and all the good ones coming soon.  I needed it before Christmas.

You would figure it would be easy to get one after 6 months of the Wii being out.  This is still not the case, just like the Xbox 360.  Yesterday I went to Best Buy to pick one up thinking it would be just there.  It wasn't.  Luckily the guy told me they were getting some in today in the morning when it opened and that they would get around 12-30 units.  Everyone knew about this so I figured I would have to come early.  I didn't really want to do that so I just came about 20 minutes early.  There was a huge line of about 60 people, although some were there as a group, and I was pretty damn sure it wasn't my day.  I stuck it out in the line and when I walked in Best Buy was still handing out tickets for the Wii!

Now that I am inside they have a special area reserved for the Wii.  Before you got your console there were lines of tables you had to walk buy with accessories and games.  Since I didn't have a ton of money to spend on accessories, thanks to me being able to drive soon, I just picked up the Classic Controller.  They didn't have any Wii Points so I will just buy those with a credit card.  Then came the time where I traded in the ticket so I could pick up my Wii!  It was a pretty exciting moment.  I didn't pick up any extra games, but that will happen within the next week or two.  Best Buy ended up getting about 50 units.

I am just so damn excited to have one and it will be great with my Xbox 360 and they shall rule my entertainment set-up.  So that proves that there is still quite a shortage of Wiis, at least in Columbus, Ohio, and I was pretty lucky to get one today without waiting in line for much.  Now it's time for me to set up my Wii and enjoy it!

Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!

EDIT: I just got back from buying Super Paper Mario for $34.99!

It's already that time of year for me again.  Today, or rather early this morning, I turned 16 years old.  Some get excited, I really don't.  It's cool that it's my birthday, but it really isn't all that much more significant than any of my other birthdays.  The thing that I am excited about is getting my driver's license.  This will eb happening within the next upcoming weeks, probably early June.  I am all set for that with my car and all that stuff.  I will be driving a 98' Honda Accord.  So it was a pretty good day, besides being at school.  Once I get my license a new blog will come for sure or when I get  out of school, which ever comes first.

The Halo 3 beta was supposed to come out today but had been delayed till tomorrow due to some issues they have been having.  I tried some last contest attempts to get into it, but all failed.  I guess I'll just wait till it releases on September 25th.  That's a lot earlier than most expected.  I am wondering when Mass Effect will now come out and am hoping it isn't released in September.  If that is the case, I will have less time to play it so I am hoping for a release soon.  I am still wondering if any of my friends here got accepted into the Halo 3 beta or bought Crackdown and will play it through there.

My Xbox 360 had been working from time to time after I did the towel fix.  It was starting to become worse and rarely work, but all of a sudden it seems to have changed.  I have been able to turn it on the last few days without any problems which is good and bad.  It's good because it seems like a problem solved, but I still really should send it in because I doubt it will be good for the rest of its lifetime so I will probably still send it in.