MrDrMikey's Patch: The past few weeks.

Evening all! It's been a while since I last posted on here! (a few weeks at the most!) and as you've probably guessed by my extensive usage of exclamation marks I'm in quite a good mood! Don't ask why it's just one of those days.

But in the time I've been away dwindling around I have managed to fix my own Xbox without having to pay Bill Gates an extortionate amount. And visit Moscow!. So my Xbox was playing up (meh) not an uncommon sight, and the bloody contraption wouldn't read any discs, no matter how much I exhaled like an unfortunate asthmatic on both the discs and the drive it just wouldn't comply, so...I did the unthinkable (and please don't judge me) I considered buying a new console, and I bet you're thinking "Oh Mikey it's ok you can buy a new Xbox" but no! I was actually considering for a few days buying perhaps I don't know...A BLOODY PS3! now before you recoil in horror clutching your crucifix with the "POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU" It was just a thought, but I've dedicated the last 5 years of my gaming "career" to Xbox and it won't end there, so I decided to fix it myself, (luckily the warranty ran out in 2008, so I wasn't losing out).

HORROR

So, I dismantled my precious box of x-ness, and made my way to the DVD drive (following a very helpful tutorial on YouTube here's the link >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnYETi73Vbs) Now when I got into the bowels of my 360 I noticed a VAST, HUGE, MASSIVE (Insert extra word to emphasise largeness) of dust collecting in the fan and around the internal components. So I got my trusty hoover and cleared that s*** up! then... I broke into my DVD drive to find more of this fluffy devil inside and yes I got the old hoover out and did the same, then I cleaned the CD laser with a cotton bud dipped in aftershave...yeah aftershave! Something with a high alcohol content (vodka, nail varnish remover etc) and re assembled it AND IT WORKS FINE! It even reads discs which I thought were obsolete from two years ago! (I enjoyed a lengthy 3 hours on CoD4 ;) so if you're having the same problem do the same! if you're warranty hasn't expired of course.

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And...I also to do with my college course visited Moscow, Russia! Which is very different to your usual Spain or Greece I must say, I went on February the 7th for a few days (Now I'm not going to go into too much detail because someone talking about one of their holidays is perhaps the most tedious experience ever) I went during the Russian winter which if I might add IS A REAL F****** WINTER! I went to the famous red square in all my wrapped up thermals shizz and the temperature was a cool -26 Celsius which is abysmally cold, I got frostbite on my chin and nose, (obscure places I know) but I bought a traditional Russian hat and that kept me warm! I went to Red Sqaure, The Kremlin and of course I went to see the tomb of Vladmir Lenin, you know the guy who's been dead for over 90 years but they still keep his body on display. And of course I brought back some Matroyshka's (The Russian Dolls) and some classic Vodka with a kick like...well Russian vodka? This is just a quick summary I'll put a few pictures below.