Andrew Hughes

Taken from Bungie.net

“Earlier today, we completed the update of the Halo 2 playlists as described in the weekly update. If you can still see Head to Head in your playlist selection screen in the game, you need to log out of Xbox Live and log back in until Head to Head is gone and the new playlists are showing up. Bungie.net is now also correctly showing the new lists. Have fun, and post any questions to Optimatch.”

Here are the following changes to the playlists:

Major Clanmatch and Head to Head have been removed.

Minor Clanmatch has received a change in configuration. It will now be called Clanmatch and will allow for team of 4-5 clan members each. Your Minor Clanmatch ranks will persist to the new Clanmatch playlist.

Two new unranked playlists have been added, Rumble Armory and Team ActionSack.

6v6 Team Battle has been added as a ranked playlist featuring team sizes of 5-6 players each. Big Team Battle now supports only larger team sizes of 7-8 players each.

Team Snipers is now a ranked playlist and has a total of 15 maps. Your hidden rank will now be displayed.

Yessssssssssssssssssss!

Andrew

Taken from 99X Rocks :

99X and Michelob Ultra Amber proudly welcome back the annual 99X Nutcracker Christmas, featuring headliners NONPOINT! Friday night, December 9th! Doors open at 5 with the show to kick off at 5:30 at Peoria’s Expo Gardens! 99X local Rockers 3AM Project, Trip-Rod, and 99X’s original house band, Justify The Means rock the house, with regional rockers ‘Left for Dead’ opening the show!

Tickets are available at Radioplex, all Co-op Records, Elmore Musical Warehouse and ‘Shandi’s’ in the Canton Square in Canton. Tickets are $15, $20 gets you a ticket and a commemorative Nutcracker T-Shirt! Check out the coupon on the back of your ticket for savings on a 99X Nutcracker ornament at ‘Rudolph and Me’ in Northwood’s Mall…see you at Nutcracker 2005, from Michelob Ultra Amber, and 99X Rocks!

I cannot WAIT!!!

Andrew

Today is Aaron’s BIRTHDAY!!! He is my weird brother who loves number 26.

Andrew

Taken from Yahoo Sports :

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — No hiding the obvious for the Chicago Bears. During their eight-game winning streak — their longest in 20 years — the defense’s dominant play has compensated for a sputtering passing game.

“When you say the defense has carried us, that’s what they’re supposed to do,” coach Lovie Smith said Monday, a day after Chicago pounded on Brett Favre and rode two big interceptions to a 19-7 win over Green Bay.

“That’s the strength of our team. That and our running game is supposed to carry us,” Smith added. “But we need to improve our quarterback play. We need to improve our passing game as a whole. So anyone involved in the passing game needs to pick it up a little bit in order for us to continue this path to win our division and to get into the playoffs.”

Rookie Kyle Orton completed only six of 17 passes Sunday, top receiver Muhsin Muhammad was shut out for the first time since 2002 and the Bears were 0-for-10 on third-down conversions — numbers that usually won’t get any team to the playoff. Thomas Jones did run for 93 yards to reach 1,000 for the first time in his career.

Smith was still not budging Monday as the clamor grew for Rex Grossman’s return to replace Orton, who has a quarterback rating of 60.2. Grossman, who broke his ankle in the preseason, was the third quarterback Sunday and could elevated to backup for Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh.

But Smith was sticking with Orton. The Bears haven’t won eight in a row since their 1985 Super Bowl team started that season 12-0.

“He’s quarterbacked us to eight wins in a row and nine on the season. His leadership ability to get the job done,” Smith said, listing Orton’s strengths.

“Things he needs to improve on a little bit, accuracy probably. But you say that about most young quarterbacks. But I’m going to look at what he’s done overall. You can look at his quarterback rating. Of course it isn’t exactly what you would like for your quarterback rating to be, and then in the end I’m going to look at how many games he’s won and figure he can do the job.”

So far, the Bears’ defense has done a lot of the work and continued that trend Sunday. Charles Tillman’s 95-yard interception return set up a field goal and Nathan Vasher — as he seems to do every week — returned another pick 45 yards for a game-clinching touchdown.

Vasher has seven interceptions this season and also a 108-yard return of a missed field goal for a TD, the longest play in NFL history. Tillman has picked off four passes, including one he returned for a TD in overtime against the Lions.

“I’m having a blast,” Vasher said. “If we continue to win like this, plays like that are going to come. We’re getting sacks, we’re getting interceptions, and that makes the game a whole lot more fun. It seems like the last five, six minutes of the game are real fun for us, and that’s the way we’ve got to continue to play.”

When Smith became coach before last season, he pledged to build a defense that could not only stop opponents, but score points. And the Bears have done just that.

Chicago has returned eight interceptions for TDs in Smith’s first two seasons, including three this year.

“I really believe in our system that we have,” Smith said. “It’s not like we’re figuring it out on the run. Our system has a proven success rate. We know that it works and we have great players in our scheme.”

Need I say any more…

Andrew

Today happens to be Sinia Elizabeth Barlett’s birthday. She is ONLY 29 and could not be happier. I hope she has many more!

Andrew

I have been noticing that there are a lot of birthday’s this month. I guess people got busy over spring break. I find this very funny.

Please check out digg.com. It is a very good site and has been around for a while.

Andrew

Today is Dave’s birthday!!! He turns 27 and cannot wait for Wrestlemania 21 in CHI-Town!!!

Andrew

Taken from Q101.com –

“Members of 311 got into a brawl with an apparently intoxicated Scott Stapp at a Baltimore hotel last week. 311 singer S.A. Martinez, who suffered a fractured knuckle during the altercation, maintains that he and his bandmates acted in self-defense and that the former Creed frontman “was looking for attention.” In other news, Stapp reportedly showed up drunk and acted belligerently on the set of Spike TV’s Casino Cinema show on Tuesday.”

Wow… Stapp is a pussy… SA kicked his ass.

Andrew

Heather called me this morning and said she was having problems with her iPod. I feel really bad that she just opened it and cannot get it to work. I hope I can fix it for her. I just spent a ton of money on this Road Trip thing. I bet it is something very simple. I doubt it though.

It turns out the iPod was locked up. All I had to do was the following:

1) Lock On
2) Lock Off
3) Hold Menu and Enter for 2 seconds
4) All DONE!!!

I hope this helps other people out!

Andrew

The day was going good until I was about to leave. A customer called and said the vehicle she driving stalled… DAMMIT! I was going to do stuff with my wife. On the way over to the car, Heather calls and asked me if she could go out with her sister. I kind of laughed because she ASKED to go out… HA!!! I was like; OK. I then told her I would not be around for a while because of the problem. I ended coming home and doing luandry and hanging up most of my clothes. I am now starting to play NFSMW until they get back. At least I had the place to myself for a while, but I do miss Heather.

Andrew

I want to wish Heather a HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY!!!

Andrew

Brian and Mike came over last night. We were going to play “Riff”, but we started doing police chases in Need for Speed: Most Wanted. After 3 hours of police chases, we decided to call it a day and they left. I ended up playing the game for an hour and went to bed. I cannot wait to play the game on Monday. I hope I can just sit around and play all day. It would be a good day.

Andrew

That’s it…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING MOFO’S!!!

Andrew

Today was the first full day that I did not see my wife. I did so much around the house though. I was able to finish laundry, cook, and do the dishes! I was able to complish sooo much. I just need to finish upstairs and then the place is complete. Yesssssssssssssss! I cannot wait to see Heather tomorrow… I miss her already.

Andrew