Red ring of death

I am a gamer and proud of it. I recently joined the 360 crowd, and bought myself a 20gb model as a Christmas gift to myself. Thank me very much.

Well after only 2 months of gaming goodness, my xbox caught the holiday spirit and went all rudolf the red nose SOB on me. Thank the gods for the internet, I was able to do a few things and get the red rings of death to clear. But I fear they are just zombies, and will soon rise again.

The system freezes up mid game, or mid anything really. So it looks like I have to send it in for repair. I had hoped that Microsoft had fixed this kinda unreliability but I guess not. Happy freakin' new year.

So I wait to find out from the warranty people and ponder the over $200 bucks I spent on games, xbox live, and an extra controller. All sitting dead to me.