I hate my day job with a fiery passion. I'm rather confident that I will soon either walk out in a fit of complete and utter disgust... or I'll get fired. The latter could happen whether I screw up or not, as several long-time employees have recently been let go for minor infractions that elsewhere probably wouldn't even warrant a frown from a manager. It's absurd, really.

So anyway, the only reason I'm still working at the job is that I need the money and the prospect for other jobs around here is virtually non-existent given my skill set. I have a lot of back debts and I've been paying them down, but it can't happen fast enough to please me. So I've decided to sell some games that I can maybe do without. I'll miss many of them, but not in any extreme way. Perhaps parting with them will keep my sanity secure, so it's a sacrifice worth making.

While deciding what to sell, I figured it was time to finally let go of original Xbox games that won't run on the Xbox 360, since my brother-in-law borrowed my original Xbox and it never quite came back due to circumstances not entirely within his control. The list of games I'll be selling for that reason is as follows:

Beyond Good & Evil
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Everything or Nothing
Gladius
The Godfather: The Game
Kung Fu Chaos
Metal Slug 3
Pirates of the Caribbean
Samurai Shodown V

I don't expect any of those to go for much on eBay and definitely I'll miss them, but I'm not about to buy another Xbox--bulky beast that it is--and most of the above games I probably won't go back to even though I like them. The hardest loss to take will be Pirates of the Caribbean, a game that almost no one seems to know about or care about except for me. Many of the others are at least available on other systems.

With any luck, I'll make a few hundred on eBay as a result of my upcoming sales. That can go a long way toward paying off another credit card and yes, there's an up side to all of this: I'll have more room on my shelves for any new games that join my library in the months and years ahead... games that I'll likely have a better chance of actually playing from time to time. Hey, every cloud has a silver lining!