Format the following passage properly, for storytelling purposes.

3:36pm. It sticks out to me as a mathematically beautiful combination of numbers, and a good time to start writing. The sun's still shining outside and if I can get on a roll I may be able to finish this piece before stripes begin adorning my monitor. There are nine unread messages in my university email account, which I am still using almost ten years after graduating from FAU. For the moment, I'm inclined to ignore them, and have successfully warded off a temptation that I've given into on other days. Today, I am driven by an inner strength that isn't normally felt. Glancing leftward, I see a PS4 hooked up to the third of three HDMI ports on my old Samsung television set. This morning, I inherited a bundle that included a PS4, a pair of HDMI cables, three controllers (only one of which is hooked up to the console as of now), and an interesting collection of games. The majority are sports titles, which is right up my alley as someone who's long enjoyed doing CPU vs CPU simulation matches, and the lion's share of those are MLB: The Show installments, which is even nicer. The nicest part is getting an NHL game in the lot; as someone who has developed a fascination with Canada, and particularly Montreal, I'm looking forward to seeing the Canadiens in virtual action. As a Floridian who is lucky enough to see his Panthers in the playoffs, and hoping they'll take care of business against the Boston Bruins, it somehow doesn't feel right to not have the Montreal Canadiens bidding for the championship. The last few years have been challenging for them, but I feel their rebuilding process will pay off in the long run. As hard as it may be to believe, for a sport that is still by and large considered as belonging to the people of Canada, the Canadiens--who have not won a Stanley Cup in more than thirty years--remain the last Canadian team to win it all. It is a legacy the people of Montreal, and all others in Quebec, can be proud of, though I am sure it is painful to think of how long it has been since they last tasted championship glory. It would still be a few years before "Arthur" made its premiere on PBS affiliates across the country, and along with "Caillou" and "Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat" this was the show that led to my interest in Canadian-produced media. It is my sincere hope that Canada will have a Stanley Cup champion in the 21st century; whether it is Montreal or not I am sure that folks from province to province, coast to coast, would be celebrating for months on end if one of their teams finally managed to snap the United States' long streak of dominance. Though the Americans should not be considered guests in the house Canada built anymore, I feel my country is overdue to be humbled and reminded of where they got 'it' from. After a lengthy period of time needed for downloading an update over Joshua House WiFi, NHL 17 finally boots up. A few option selections later, and I am brought to a 'quick game' screen, a match-up pitting the last two teams, as of September 2016 (when the game was released), to reach the Stanley Cup Finals (the champion Pittsburgh Penguins versus the runner-up San Jose Sharks). I try pressing multiple buttons. None of them allow me to change the match-up, so my desire to see the Canadiens hit the virtual ice will not be satisfied, at least not right now. "No problem", I say to myself. "It should be fun to watch these teams go head-to-head." The PS4 controller does not have the traditional start button found on most gaming consoles, and the "PS" button doesn't serve the same purpose for what I'm trying to accomplish here. I ensure the controller icon is in the middle, between both teams, which in the past ensured a CPU vs. CPU game. I press the 'X' button, which is our 'Start' for purposes of this game. Nothing is happening. Nope, it looks like I actually would have to choose a side. I am not upset about it, but it's not what I was hoping for. I pop the disc out, delete the game's data from the console, and fire up another title. This time, it's MLB: The Show 14. After a brief but interesting intro--albeit a bit cinematic for my tastes--and a lengthy period of disc loading, I am brought to the main menu and a tutorial that explains how menu navigation works. Simple and intuitive enough. I am greeted with several options, including the traditional 'Exhibition' mode. Now this is more like it. This is what NHL 17 should have been, but it comes as no surprise as the MLB: The Show games thankfully are not made by EA Sports, a company that lost their way after the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era was over. I'm able to select my teams without any trouble, and decide to pit the Phillies against the Blue Jays. Neither team was coming off of particularly great luck in 2013 but maybe they'll come together for a nice game. With the controller icon in the middle, and not directed to a specific team, I press 'X'. This time it works. "Yes! I can do CPU vs. CPU!" All seems right with the world, only now I have to wait for the teams to be downloaded, along with their stadiums. As insipid as it may seem, to someone whose last major experiences with console gaming came during the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii generation, it isn't enough to simply load everything from the disc. You have to download the entire game to your hard drive. Not a big deal, so I wait. And wait. And wait some more. Eventually, an error screen comes up, as there was an issue reading from the disc. I eject it, wipe it off a bit, and try again. Same thing. I've had this PS4 hooked up for a few hours now, but have yet to actually play a game with it. Let's see if my luck changes with MLB: The Show 16. An update file is being downloaded, and there are less than 60 seconds left before that download is done. As an old-school gamer, this is one of the reasons why I still have a soft spot in my heart for the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era and almost everything that came before it. At the expense of sounding like an old man shouting at a cloud, in the days before it became mandatory to download a whole game from disc to hard drive, before you had to be connected to the Internet to download updates, developers needed to have everything together. There were precious few opportunities for updates; you had to try and get it right in one shot. And for as many flaws and bugs as you can find in some of these old games, I appreciate how they were a fraction of the size of today's updates (let alone full games) and made the most of the limitations of their hardware. The update has finished downloading. This time, I don't even get to the intro. The system is having trouble reading from the disc. Against my better judgment, I've tried wiping it off, and the update file is being downloaded again. I'm sure it won't work, and if it doesn't I'm going to throw in the towel on actually trying to play a game with it, and see what I can do with its web capabilities. There are some nice apps installed that could be worth a try. I hear disconcerting sounds coming from the disc drive. I'm sure this disc is done for. In less than twenty seconds, I will know the answer. Last time around, it got to the first loading screen but no further. This time, not even that came up, just a "CE-30005-8" error screen. What a waste. Stubborn as I've always been, I am determined not to give up. "One more try," I tell myself. Do I have the willpower to keep it from becoming three or four more tries? Luckily, the data has successfully been copied from a new disc, MLB: The Show 17, to the hard drive. No matter what happens, I will be keeping this game in my PS4 for the foreseeable future. If it has CPU vs. CPU, it is a lock to either never leave that disc drive or be temporarily discharged for testing CDs and DVDs. We'll see. The atmospheric PS4 menu music, and the soothing blue color scheme of the menus themselves, compels me to keep trying again. Even in the frustration of my failures so far, my heart is still at ease. My only regret is all of the wasted WiFi bandwidth.