I just wrote to the President… he’s going to see what he can do about making Tuesday a national holiday.

Past that,  I’m in a predicament.  I have my Halo 2 disc sitting here, staring at me with its glorious design that has made millions of revolutions inside my xbox.  It’s like I have an old dog that needs to be put to sleep in order for me to get a new dog with better graphics and post game video editing.

So how do I do it? Give it a treat and shoot it in the back of the head?  Ceremoniously? Crack a beer and cry afterwards?

But for reals, here are my options:

• Play tomorrow until I have a good game, and win. Go out on top.
• Play until I get pissed off and snap the disc like I have wanted to do oh so many times before.
• Don’t even go on Live, but rather just set up my own custom game, go to each level, and kill myself one time on each. Except Backwash… worst level ever created.
• Don’t even put the game into the xbox. Try and forget about it.
• Forget that I even thought about that last option. I’m sorry  Halo 2.

I get it now. When Blink 182 sings the line, “So here’s your holiday…” they were talking to me when they wrote that. They were talking about September 25th, 2007.

My holiday.

But however I decide to end my amazing relationship with what is more than a game – rather a way of life – it won’t do it justice. Excuse me while I go get an urn. That’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to spread Halo 2’s ashes on my USF transcripts. Halo 2 made them possible, thanks Bungie!