Cut back to Friday, when I posted chapter IV. Note the desperation. Note the neediness.

Friday night, I receive an e-mail from Microsoft, containing a tracking number. I am ecstatic. I don't regret not posting it because I liked my last post and I didn't want to ruin it. Okay?! Okay.

The UPS site said it was arriving today, so today I literally stalked my front door. I hear it's filing charges later.

About a half hour before I had to leave for class, a friendly man in a friendly brown suit handed me a friendly electronic clipboard and asked me in a friendly manner to sign it. For my efforts, I was rewarded this:



"A box? A BOX?!" my inner nerd screamed. My inner nerd really likes boxes and manuals. Sorry.

Upon opening the box, I was greeted with yet another sheet of instructions.



See, when you get an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for the first time, you "connect" it to the console. This is for all the people who seem to think that they're getting their original 360 back in the mail, even though you're totally not getting the original one back.

Since I didn't have time to take a picture of the console itself, here's a mockup.



(By the way, I got an Intel Mac Mini somewhere in the past couple weeks. More on that later.)

When I was plugging in the console, I had a brief flashback to the day I discovered the original one was dead. Something about all those cables.

When I went to turn it on, it wouldn't.

"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, WHAT GIVES?!?!?!?!?"

It turns out I forgot to plug the power cord back in. Hah! Terrifying.

It works now, though. So, I can safely say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. And I wouldn't make such a bold statement without a graphic to back it up!



Previous Chapters:
Chapter I: The Shocking Revelation
Chapter II: The Phone Call
Chapter III: The "Box"
Chapter IV: The Wait

Labels: Adventures in Tech Support, Xbox 360