Freaking PS3 BD disc drive died. No bluray plays. No PS2 game plays. No PS3 game plays. Icon never shows. Sony sent a box (that used to be my job when I worked for them — heh). I’m mailing it off soon.

So when you ship it off, you have to wipe your personal data (or at least they recommend it) but trophies can’t be backed up! Wtf. I don’t have a ton of trophies but I wonder if this is going to be an issue for other people.

So the turn-around time they say is 3 weeks. And it’s out of warranty $150 repair. Take into account that this is the last hardware backwards-compatible 60gb PS3 model that I’m shipping out, I’m really worried that this is a lost game. I can’t repair it forever and I can’t get a new PS3 unless I break out my old PS2 (which is not that reliable). Maybe I should just get a PS2 slim and a new PS3 when they update it.

In other news, a friend of mine got in an accident. He’s fine but he’s selling his bike. Sad to hear that his bike riding is taking a hiatus but I’m glad that he’s ok. His car looked really bent-up in the pic he sent.

Ableton Suite 8 came today. I’m installing it now. It’s like 62gb installed with all the samples. I was super-impressed with the demo. It’s so smooth with the workflow and creative construction with sort of a loop-centered mentality. Hoping to make some really big strides forward from linear things like Logic and Cubase.