So early Saturday morning I figure I'll pick up my shinny new PS3 that I've been saving up for. I go down town and pick it up then the clerk asks me if I want to pick up any games. I say "no" figuring since Little Big Planet is not out yet that I'd go home and download some games to hold me over until then. So I leave with my PS3 thinking I'll be all good in indulging in my PS3 goodness. But then the pains of living in on campus housing came up.

See as most people will know living in dorms, most everything that you have that uses a ethernet cable will have to be registered with the school's network in order to hook it up online. Usually this is just a standard give them your MAC address and be on your merry way sort of thing. But I've had some issues with my school's system before (the same thing I'm about to explain happened a year ago with my Wii)

On my school's tech registering site it will give you instructions where to find your MAC address on your 360, PS3, Wii, tivo, ect. For the Wii and PS3 though it says that your address will start with certain characters, lets say for sake of argument it's "00-16-1c." Now if the MAC address doesn't start with that, the site won't accept it, and guess what my PS3's MAC address DOESN'T start with. Yep. The only way it can get approved now is if the master IT guy manually enters it into the system, and guess who doesn't come til work until sometime... today, I hope.

So yeah, long story shot I spent the whole weekend sitting on a $400 paper weight with out access to the internet. Sure sure, I can watch my blu ray movies, but really... I want to play something. As of right now I'm in class waiting and compulsively checking my email waiting for the A-OK letting me know that the damn thing is hooked up online. So hopefully by the end of my classes today I can go home and splurge on some downloads, I was thinking Warhawk, Tekken 5, and Wipeout HD.

...and just now remembering that Xbox Live is down for the day, it better go through today or I'm gonna go nuts.

[UPDATE] Wow, that took a lot less time than I thought it would. My PS3 is now hooked up online and I'm just going through system updates. I'll probably do a blog later today about everything else. Woo.