Hallelujah!

Big news everyone! After the Xbox troubles detailed in my last blog, we sent back the faulty European Xbox power supply, and we received the replacement yesterday. This time, everything worked! We cautiously plugged it into the wall in the kitchen first, because the kitchen and bathroom are on a different electrical circuit from the other rooms where we have clocks that needed resetting every time we caused power outages. After the power supply worked in the kitchen, we tried it in the living room. After it worked in the living room, we plugged it into the Xbox, hit the power button and woohooo!

Marlene had the first session, playing the classic Civilization Revolution. If you can believe it, Marlene has been looking forward to having a functioning video game system at least as much as I have. She's got Civ Rev along with The Sims 3, which she's been waiting to play since Xmas. Here's some photographic evidence of how happy she was!





In other awesome news, my soccer team started training again yesterday. It was pretty freezing cold to be playing outdoor soccer already, but it'll be good to have more opportunities to exercise. The competitive matches start in a couple weeks, until then we have friendly matches against other Vienna teams to get back into real fitness. I'm really looking forward to it because I was starting to get some decent playing time with the first team at the end of Fall, and I had a great time playing indoor with my teammates over the Winter.