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Hello, my name is Jeremy Jefferson. I am currently a full-time student at ITT-Tech in Fort Wayne Indiana. I am 22 years old and live in Larwill, Indiana.

I graduated early from Whitko High School in 2005. In high school I was active in school publication. I worked on the yearbook all four years and also did the school website for a couple years.

Currently I am working towards a networking degree from ITT-Tech. My goal is to get a career in computer networking. Ideally I would love to get a job working as the IT administrator for a school.

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July
9
2008
1:04 pm
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My Xbox was shipped out on Monday like I expected.  It is scheduled to arrive this Friday.

I am writing this post just to alert you all of something they did that could affect others.  A day or so after they ship the 360 back to you, they will remove the link to the tracking number from their status page.  Therfor, I urge anyone to write this tracking number down once it is posted because at some point they will remove it.  Luckily for me, I had it in my history.

Again, this is the tracking number for when they are sending it back to you.  Make sure you write this down once its on the site, because after a day or so they will remove it.

Rather than that, this process is going very quickly and very nicely.  The status page shows they extended my full warranty on the 360 another 3 months which is nice.

CURRENT TIME SINCE I STARTED REPAIR PROCESS: 13 DAYS

UPDATE:

You actually can still get the UPS tracking number for the return I found. However, you have to go to that page where you enter the repair service number and your zip code. If you go to it that way, they will still give you a link to track it.

July
7
2008
1:57 am
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Over the past couple weeks I have had to battle being sick.  I wrote on this earlier, so I’m just going to update you all on my condition.  If you want to know all the glory details, please refer back a few posts.

For the most part, my chest pain from my costochrondritis is gone, thank God.  I still occasionally have a little bit of tenderness that causes pain in my chest, but it is nothing like it was a few weeks ago when it was so bad I actually started to cry in pain.  My stomach is also not bothering me at all really anymore, and most importantly, no more diarrhea.

I also had some problems with my sinuses.  It felt like I had golf balls under my eyes because they were so swollen inside.  This has also went away.

My eyes seem to be getting a lot better also.  I was having some bad pain in my eyes and it was causing me headaches also.  They were very red on the sides and were very troublesome.  They are getting back to normal color now and I can see fine again…. Well, for the most part.  I do believe I have a slight issue in my right eye seeing things from a distance.  Mostly, I just can’t focus with that eye to read things far away like a road sign that I can see clearly with my left eye.

I think this means I might be ready for glasses and will probably go to the eye doctor sometime soon to have a checkup that I am, really, long overdue for.

My only issue now is I have a slight sore throat and it sometimes feels like I have something stuck in my throat which is also very annoying.  This has gotten better over the last couple of days though.

For the most part I seem to be back in good health, thank God.  My only obstacle now is my surgery next week on July 18th (a week from this coming Friday).  If you haven’t read or know already, I have a hernia that is going to be repaired.  This is an outpatient surgery and I should be back to normal after only a couple of days.

I will be sure to post probably right before my surgery and afterwards to say how it went.  This will be my third surgery I’ve had in my lifetime and I’m not really scared or nervous about it at all.  My first surgery was on my back to fix scoliosis.  The second was to remove a growth from my head.  This, my third, will be to fix a hernia.  Hopefully, this will be my last surgery I need for a long time.

July
5
2008
11:49 am
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Wow, Microsoft got my Xbox on Thursday, but probably because of the holiday didn’t mark it as received until today (which I understand).  The good news is though, the status already shows that it has been fixed or replaced and they already sent me a tracking number to track the shipment of it back to me.

This means My 360 (or its replacement) is already on its way back home!  I suspect though, since they did it so quickly, that they replaced it.  I should probably have the unit back by tuesday I think.

CURRENT TIME SINCE I STARTED REPAIR PROCESS: 9 DAYS

July
4
2008
2:16 pm
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Yesterday Microsoft received my Xbox 360 at their repair center.  They say it should be 2-3 weeks before I get it back at this point so I will keep you all updated on this.  Again, I am logging all this on my blog so others in the future can reference my experience to know what they can expect.

I understand today being the 4th of July though that they are probably closed.  Plus they probably don’t do anything over the weekends either.  So, we’ll see.  Their website status thing has not updated yet to say they have received the unit, but UPS has confirmed delivery.

CURRENT TIME SINCE I STARTED REPAIR PROCESS: 8 DAYS

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