Summer Contest Wrap Up

Well it's official, another summer, another summer of contests over, and as their 6-8 week delivery times wrap up I'm getting in the haul. This year, the top of my winnings was probably the Toshiba HD-A2 Drive and Matrix Trilogy HD-DVD set I won from Expo TV for making a video on a HD-DVD product for their summer contest. You can see my over the top review video at Expo TV. Last year's Expert Gamer contest at ExpoTV was a little better (32" Sony Bravia HDTV & 5.1 surround sound system) but I can't complain this year either. If you or anyone you know is in the market for an HD-DVD player, contact me as I don't intend on keeping this one as I have a hard time watching DVD's as it is.

A couple more wins include an iPod Nano, some Xbox 360 games, an Xbox 360 faceplate, and possibly a GPS system and and Xbox 360 bundle which are yet to arrive. If you're reading this and thinking - how can I win this stuff too? There's a great forum at slickdeals that has a whole kaboodle of contests and instant win games popping up. Enter as many of them as you can and as often as you can and you're bound to be a winner too!

I've become a Tetrix Warrior Against Tobacco

Hundreds and thousands of hours of practicing Tetris has finally paid off. All those sleepless nights with only the dreams of falling four-unit blocks have come to fruition. Finally I have found a contest out there that can put my mad tetris playing skills to the challenge - and challenge it was my friends!

It was Monday morning at roughly 3:46 am when my parched lips awakened me to a midnight sip of water. The glow of the hibernating computer beckoned me to turn it on. As I did so the dormant website came to life as she sang her siren's cry: "play me again Dan, just one more time." I heeded the temptation with little reluctance, and by 4:30 am I was $20 in Bajio and $15 in iTunes gift certificates richer and more importantly I became: a Warrior Against Tobacco.

So a midnight craving of Tetris has set me on route to another Xbox 360, a skate board, and a prize pack from Salty Peaks. Now as a true warrior I must fend off the challengers of my noble 6865 at least until June 4th. Can this master of the colored blocks prevail? Only time will tell.

Dare you challenge me to become a fellow warrior?