I got my Xbox 360 back yesterday. Not bad really considering I only rung up to report it faulty last Wednesday, that’s a 6 day turnaround. A big thumbs up to Mr. Bill Gates for that one!

My only criticism about the service is that had I not been able to leave the unit somewhere to be collected I would have had to of taken many days off work as the couriers (UPS) were unable to specify a day for collection and delivery.

Secondly Microsoft could only accept my faulty console with the HDD, which we had already established over the telephone in not being faulty. Because of the new HDD, all my game saves are now lost.

I had got very far on GTA: San Andreas and I don’t know if I have the patience to play through the whole thing again to reach the stage where I was before, which is a shame as it’s a brilliant game.

I had a go at Fifa 06 this afternoon too, well it’s The World Cup next month and I haven’t played it since February. I played 3 games and lost all 3. Either everyone else on Xbox Live has been playing it constantly for the past 5 months and become Fifa Masters or I have become shit. It was embarrassing, like watching Leeds against Watford all over again.

Lastly, somebody at work was winding me up all day yesterday about the Play Off result. Most annoyingly they’re not even a football fan. That is the worst kind of wind-up merchant as you can’t even explain why Leeds lost (they won’t understand) or mock them when their team does shit.

“3 nil, 3 nil, 3 nil…” they sung throughout Tuesday afternoon. This morning however I discovered that karma does exist. The “work bully” went to some keep fit class on Tuesday night where they found out, to their horror that they had put on 3 pounds in weight. Cue the inevitable song from me “3 pounds, 3 pounds, 3 pounds…”