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Last night I was supposed to go down to Scottsburg to visit with Sara, Grason, and my mom, but I wasn’t feeling well the last couple hours at work and ended up just going home. I did stop and pick up a 200GB hard drive for my Xbox that Circuit City had on sale for $100 and got that installed, and everything there seems to be going really well. I forgot to FTP the stuff from the C: drive on the old hard drive over to my computer first, though, so tonight I have to put the old one back in, copy that stuff over to the computer, then put the new drive back in and copy over all the files and settings after I reformat it for larger HD support. For game copying purposes, right now it’s better than it was with the old drive since the DVD2Xbox software, which copies directly to the HD from the DVD drive, is working now, and it didn’t work before. I think that mostly has to do with me flashing a different BIOS to my modchip last night, but I’m not positive.

To make up for not going to visit mom last night, I’m skipping class tonight and hanging out with her and Steph. I’ll still need to go down and visit Sara this weekend, though, as she won’t be making the trip up tonight. Mom leaves to go back to CA tomorrow.

While I was copying stuff over last night, I watched Underworld, a movie my buddy Mike was gracious enough to let me borrow. I had heard from Spook that it was a kickass movie, and it was alright, but I was mildly disappointed, mostly by the werewolves in the movie. If you haven’t seen it, Underworld is about an ancient war between vampires and werewolves that continues in the modern era. The whole time I was watching the movie, I couldn’t help but think that was watching The Matrix, except with vampires. The art style, costumes, locations — everything — seemed like a ripoff of the Matrix, except that Underworld didn’t contain any pretentious philosophical issues and didn’t take itself nearly as seriously. Of movies starring Kate Beckinsale and featuring vampires and werewolves, I prefer Van Helsing.