Sanity is returning to my world
Well the past few days have been nice. As you can see I even took the opportunity to re-skin the site. I’m not leaving the N64 love behind, just playing Metroid Prime the past week or so has me feeling nostalgic for the Gamecube. I swear that is still has to be the most comfortable controller ever made.
We got back home early Monday afternoon. And I washed up Andrea’s car and started working on prepping the roof for the new top that is going to be put on. Did a lot of sanding and even busted out the drill and the old stripper wheel (that sounds funny). Brought back a lot of memories of painting the Toronado. Which I also had time to wash that dirty thing before we left.
I got the yard all mowed today and the garden is doing pretty good. I noticed I have my first tomato starting to grow!
I’m slowly getting caught up at work too. Life is good so far!
PODCAST – Can’t save to save my life
I beat this guy… twice.
Well here we go. I recorded this yesterday and am just now getting it on the site. The inability to save seems to be a theme. Not only with what I talk about in the show, but my computer even crashed while trying to save the audio.
Topics Include:
Metroid Prime
How I suck at Metroid Prime
My phone is old
Garage Sales
Podcast Music
Mystery Song
The previous mystery song was from Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3!
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05.23.12Why games are a bad investment
Just saw this on eBay today. At first glance that looks like a pretty impressive price. Definitely more valuable than the average Super Nintendo game, and far more valuable than anything in my collection. Even still, if you look at that game solely as an investment, it still wasn’t worth it.
Warning, old geezer talk to follow:
When that game came out in 1992 it sold for $59.99. And while granted the game is worth more today than it was back then, your money still would have been better placed into the stock market. Over the last 20 years that average rate of return that the stock market has provided is 9.4%. So if you would have invested that $59.99 into an average performing mutual fund on the day this game came out and left it alone. Today that investment would be worth $390.28. Almost $300 more than what this game sold for.
So if you’re holding on to all those old games thinking they’ll be worth something someday… you’re doing it wrong.
But if you love PLAYING these old games… then keep ’em. Because there’s nothing like blowing into an old cartridge, clicking on a power switch and saving a princess. After all, if you never sell it, who cares what it’s worth!
05.21.12PODCAST – Getting Back in the Groove
I am finally starting to feel like myself again after a long and stressful month and a half or so. I was in a good mood this morning so I took the opportunity to record another podcast. I literally had no intention of recording a show until I got into the car in the driveway, so absolutely no planning whatsoever went into this one.
Topics Include:
Backlogged Games
Garage Sale-ing
Eclipse Watching
Podcast Music
Mystery Song
The answer to the previous mystery song: Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
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05.20.12Eclipse 2012
Well I haven’t seen a solar eclipse for years. Never seen a total solar eclipse and this one wasn’t either, but still pretty cool. We all got together to watch it this evening, starting in the garage, then moving to the end of the block after the sun went behind the trees.
Here’s the setup I rigged up. Using the binoculars in my vice and an old JC Penny shirt box. Not bad for scrambling to find stuff in 5 minutes.
It’s beginning! I was even able to see some sunspots. I’d looked at the sun this way before, but either I never noticed them, or just didn’t see them before.
As the sun got lower in the sky, we had to relocate as the neighbor’s trees were blocking all the sunlight into the garage.
Had just some light clouds, only obstructed our view for maybe 10 minutes.
And that’s about the maximum eclipse that we saw from our location. You can see the power pole getting in the way, and after this the sun got too low to get a clear shot at. It was pretty fun. Made me feel like a kid again!
Speaking of kids, here’s Luke checking out the eclipse in this video:
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05.19.12Luke playing with his truck.
It’s so cool. He already knows that when his truck tips over he has to set it back on its wheels to get it to roll again. Andrea was office sitting in the embroidery shop in the basement of the radio station and Luke had plenty of space to roll around!
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05.17.12Good Greif
I hate to complain (never seems to change anything anway). But it’s been an exhausting last few weeks. So much work and travel. I think I went 3 or 4 days without seeing what my house looks like in the sunlight. Luckily I get to see Andrea once in a while when her and Luke stop by the radio station to hang out. Lately I’ve been so busy thought that even then it’s tough to spend any quality time.
Well yesterday my schedule was pretty clear, so I made huge strides in getting caught up! Felt good to not only be productive, but to be productive in the areas that I chose! I have a little checklist at work that I use to make sure I don’t forget anything, and I finally got back to where I need to be on that. Still some long term stuff that I need to get done, but I finally feel like I’m making progress again.
I actually left work a little early yesterday. It felt almost like a vacation day! I used my extra time to re-plant some peppers and corn in the garden, and start digging out the old pole that a satellite dish used to sit on. Eventually that will become my new fire pit! That’s gonna be a lot of work though for sure.
I actually sat down the other day and played some Guild Wars. The original. Actually had a lot of fun. Since all the main story is done, I now have to make sure I just pick a direction or goal I want to work on and go at it. Because it’s so easy now to sit in an outpost and just wonder what to do. So I decided I was going to go work on my Asura reputation so I can get another title and some Asura armor to add to my Hall of Monuments. When GW2 comes out, the more progress you’ve made in your HoM the better rewards you will get in GW2.
So there’s a little recap. Sorry I’ve been so absent. I really hope that it slows down soon because I don’t enjoy such a frantic pace to life. So from henceforth I’m dialing it back!
05.5.12Time for new Vinyl
I wish I were talking about records…
Actually talking about Andrea’s Cutlass. The vinyl top on the back half of her roof has slowly been coming loose since we bought the car. It hasn’t been too bad, then all at once it really went to crappy. The glue just totally gave up.
She said she could hear it flapping in the wind as she was driving down the highway, so we stopped by the upholstery shop to get a quote. It’s actually pretty reasonable if I remove the old top. So that’s the plan. Infact, Andrea already got most of the vinyl off!
