Froyd's Rants

Van Persie powered in a spot-kick after Charles N’Zogbia handled an Emmanuel Adebayor cross as Arsenal overwhelmed a depleted Newcastle.

whozawhatnow?

should have a barber named Joe at least once in their lives.

I’m just sayin’

Fine tuning it has gone well. I had to create some splitters out of some wire and quick disconnects, but that wasn’t hard at all. The Radio Shack didn’t have any splitters at all for what I needed, so some ol’ elbow grease and a stunning ignorance of the danger of playing with electronic toys combined to cure my problem.

Now all PCBs can be hooked up, takes about 30 seconds to switch games, the coin drawer works, new locks in that, screen is bright, and all games work with sound now.

MK2 was the most heinous board to get working, but I found a sound board, hooked that up, and about the time I found that one, another dealer I had asked about sent me a couple more sound boards that he didn’t know if they worked or not for a price that was cheap, and lo and behold they worked. So now I’ve got some surplus for Ebay.

The bustamove game had intermittent sound…sometimes it’d work, sometimes not. So I pulled it open, cleaned it with some detergent-water and q-tips (basically the same stuff your electronics cleaning solution is made of) and cleaned the connectors real well. Works like a charm.

Now…time for that dissertation.

Mopping takes a lot longer when both your kitchen and your bathroom are about 4 times larger than they were in the old apartment.

got through a couple of necessary sections in a book on vikings, got a couple pages of notes. Got about 3 or 4 pages of notes from an anthropology article on alcohol in ancient societies as well. Got a polished outline for the entire chapter done now. Before, it had been close, but had been missing one or two things, and a conclusion. Now I’m ready to finish ‘er up.

plus finally got all the joysticks/buttons/locks/wiring replaced on the arcade machine. Finally got the sound working on the MK2 board, and played a bit of that. Good times.

Meanwhile, one of my friends that I made out here has some pretty severe need for prayer, it’s the best I can do for her. Her dad is suffering quite a lot from cancer, and while you’re talking to the Big Guy, if you could put in a word or three for help for her and her kin, I’d appreciate it.