Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Friday 4/11/2025

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

I will set up my PS5 Disk Drive and the Midnight Black Portal.

Good morning everyone. It is now 612 a.m. Today is Friday. Here in Rhode Island we're going into a rainy weekend. Nothing extreme, just a normal April showers weekend. This time of the year, our weather stays pretty up and down at this point. But nothing like, again, we don't often didn't get anything that's really extreme here which is cool I still believe that we're probably but that's about the safest place in the entire country to live for un-wild weather however we've have had I think last year we had eight tornado touchdowns so which we never used to have any so

fortunately those are everywhere and as I talked about many times before there'll be many parts of the country that we won't be able to live anymore and probably not my lifetime but other lifetimes if we're even here that is who knows the way things are going these days. All right, so let's see. What did I do yesterday? Yesterday we did a couple different things. Oh My two motherboards came in For a IBM 5155 I have an IBM 5155 50 no 5150

But I haven't been able to get it to work so I decided to invest in two more boards. There's chips that will come off. I had taken all the RAM off the one I have installed and it didn't work yet so we'll play around with those. Those have all the chips still in place. The chips that I was looking for so maybe one of those works. Maybe I get lucky, maybe I don't. It will be a lot of fun stuff. As I always say, eBay 101 is you take the parts you need and then you resell the rest to make your money back or profit. That's exactly what I did. So going off to trying to find one specific chip, I bought two boards. I up fronted the cost and now we will take what we need

and then we will, I'll easily sell those boards fast even if I take some chips off them. Or I can then and or I can sell the chips that are on them as parts. I will get a chip tester at some point in my next investment so that I can test each individual chip and learn how to do that. I've never done it. It's something I want to learn how to do. I've got lots of early computer stuff, lots of all my TND 1000s and all that. So we'll learn how to do that. And then we started, so my new series is settled in overnight now. It's called the nightly project journeyman sight and sounds. No more audio for now. I cleared everything off of my little pot area, a because it's getting

really hot. It's going to get hot really fast really fast At some point that behind me up on the wall there is my air conditioner and just happen to be stuck where my bed is so and then I decided to go with just the Colored string I learned how to I set it up yesterday last night so I can change the color so the mood is set My sound machine so you can basically just kind of sleep along with me if you want. I had 12 hours in and it looked like I had some more watchers so that's pretty exciting. So that will be every night now and then what I'll do is I think maybe once a week we'll come in with an audio kind of give you some sort of update what's going on overnight during my initial sleep down as I get ready to go to sleep. I have another mask coming in too

Right now I'm using my cat mask. I will look for some more masks They have to be fun though with different my next one's a frog mask, but somehow it ended up getting I ordered on eBay. I didn't know it was somehow connected to Ally Express. So it's Getting off a long shipment. I wasn't expected. So, alright, so let's see what's going on this mall today We're gonna get to PS 5. I got all that stuff we need to Get to that today so we can look at it. I set up my portal Literally, I took it out of the box the other day and I have not looked at it since

Just been sitting in the corner because I had so many other things to do. Again eBay usually takes me wherever I go for the day so I had orders yesterday and my motherboards came in and I was resetting up my sights and sound for the night but I got it settled in now the way I'm gonna do it nightly. I want to keep it running so be fun I'll change the color every night, so we'll see we will reset the mood I can do all kinds of different colors with the robe light. I have it's called globe It's a string light and you hook up your phone to it, and then you can change the colors

So we'll pick a different color every night be fun And then I just go to sleep. And you can hang out with me while I'm sleeping or not. I'll come in and come out and see if I'm doing anything crazy while I'm sleeping. But I haven't really seen anything abnormal yet, but I'm still looking for that supernatural something. Nothing forced, nothing made up. Just just me sleeping and maybe we'll find something. That would be the exciting part. So let's look at Etsy.

Oh hey, I need a bottom. Let's see, someone's got a message for me. Let's see what we got here. I need a bottom here. I prefer this one with all the screw posts intact. Oh. I don't know. Alright, so. So. So. So, I do not think I have any more. Let me check.

So this is Sega Saturn. I didn't even know I had the bottom listed. I don't think I have to look here Sega Saturn I gotta see my listings Section Sega Saturn So I have one. So no. Alright, so... Let me just deactivate that then. I'm not sure what it's about. If you say this...

So... I'm gonna say... So... That listing was something that I was not aware of. So, that listing was something from before. I did have one listed that you say has a broken post so I ended it

I will recheck, but the party is over on those bottom covers in black from me. I have tons of green and I have tons of Japan. Green and tan. Alright, so, ooh, there's apps, something new here, what's this new apps? So Etsy's got some kind of new apps. Rank Everbee, something new you can add to your shipping, shipping pro. I use everything with you. Square, financial services, reach out promotions, business administration, personalization I've got all kinds of new stuff Etsy to add to here. Of course if anything you get it costs another subscription. I have to downgrade my subscriptions I got too

many things going on. Etsy I only have it just at the basic. There's an Etsy plus but then they add more okay another ten dollars a month and I'm just not it's not sustainable but YouTube's been a little better so let's look at my RSF speed here see what we're going on this month can I keep the same routine pretty much every day hence the podcast name Groundhog Day but like I said it's always something a little different it's always really different actually once I get to eBay that's where everything changes because my day like I said goes

wherever that's taking me so let's see I like to just to check a quick if I had any downloads I had one download last night I've had 482 for my podcast because this is a separate thing so I'm doing things all over the place I've got my new overnight Sites and sounds and Now and my podcast I've been doing for a while my sights and sounds Project journeyman sights and sounds I, I'm on day 10. But we'll do that every night now. And we'll just change the mood.

I've got some nice mood sounds music going on in the background. So you can come sleep along if you want. India, I had another one from India. India is one of my number one places for all my YouTube videos. Speaking of YouTube, let's segue right into that, yay. We had some added subscribers last night from my, overnight, from my Sight and Sounds. Which is, you know, the whole idea.

To bring more people in later in the night because I was losing 12 hours between, I go to bed real early at 430 at night just it just works for me so I had 492 viewers overnight five thumbs up pretty cool that's always exciting of course it doesn't change my income my subscribers went up to 32,219. My revenue is $30.15. Oh, it's just so comical at this point. Can you take off the center bar to get easy? Let's see what this is. I've got a comment here.

Can you take off the... Oh, yeah, yeah Yes, I Did know that but I forgot during this Just talking about my Dell XPS 500

But I forgot to take the center bar off it comes off Yo yesterday I had oh that's what I was doing yesterday. I was working on a chainsaw a works Chainsaw it's electric and I had to learn I had learned to take the It's electric and I had to learn I had learned to take the Bar off of it and the chain so I could ship it. It was my really nothing to learn. It was the works WG 303.1 So I did a pack video Some views on that my life in double shapes still hanging in there 2.0. K, but I did promote that before 2.0k but I did promote that for exactly $57 which was my birthday so I put that into my Google promotions but after that now if I do one zero and back down to the $5 because

last month I had like $300 in promotions and again as we go backwards here, my estimate revenue for this month is $30.15. So we're only making about $30 a month. So I'm going backwards still, way backwards, but it's all right. Still building up though. Someday maybe it'll offset itself. If I could just get even, I'd be great. And then actually go into the positive. That would be outstanding. I think I've kind of almost earned it even, I'd be great. And then actually go into the positive.

That would be outstanding. I think I've kind of almost earned it now, I think. I think I put the time in, my goodness. But it just depends on what you have. People watch, they don't watch. All right, so let's see, how many hours did I get on? I had over, my feet held all night. 11 hours, 54 minutes, minutes and 55 seconds 59 seconds. It was always around the same 11 55 55

It's pretty awesome so And then my works one will change that one So we're working on a chainsaw that's what we we did. It took apart a chainsaw, which is so random for me, but it's something I've had for a while. I got it at some point, I never really used it. And luckily it was only going to Pennsylvania, so the shipping wasn't too bad.

But I couldn't do it with the bar and the chain on, I had to take it off. Once I did that, then I did a packing video after. So you can see that and of course both of them were done in short, little shorts too. Separate shorts. My packing shorts got 707 views, which is a lot for not promoting and for a short. So that's pretty cool. You never know what you're gonna hit it's all the things other than gaming and

vintage computing that is really where I do much better for views. So therefore that's why I keep trying to mix it up and add new things just because doing just what I'm doing isn't never enough. So at some point if I just keep doing other things, we had a big, let's see we have here lots of stuff, not big but messages, let's see if we have any questions. Alright so we got lots of questions here at the moment. Do AV port and power port. I will get to your items this morning this morning or early afternoon after doing all my orders That's my first message. Second thing is an offer. Ten dollars for a five pin.

No, I'm not going to do ten dollars for those. I only have the few left. It's either I take it or I don't. There's no reason for a counter. They're only, we're into dollar bills here. I Have sewn it for 14 and you only only offer me 10. It's not enough. I only make a dollar that way Just wanted to check in check the glossy top bezel matches the hardware I will make sure the set is glossy. So this is about the Xbox 360 fat.

There's a glossy or silver glossy top and bottom that are hard to find They're hard to find them mostly that yucky flat gray The set is silver Glossy top and bottom I Will show you the exact ones shipping. These are super hard to find. Hard to find. I only have have a few few so that answers that question again I have to do all this first thing this is how we get my name going because there's always lots of questions okay now we're on we're on Xbox 360 again same guy but a different question hello wanted to check the top shaded, uh, darker shade. Black Beesle is still available.

Okay, so I need to check that I think, yes, I do have, I do have the 2009 and up black set. I will also show you. See, if you ask me questions first, it makes things a lot easier than buying something, assuming I can read your mind, and then having to deal with an issue later.

Hey, I didn't know this was supposed to be this way. And I'm like, dude, this is the way it should go. Yes, I do have 2009 up black set. I'll show you. I'll show you that. That as well. Another message. There was two messages about two different things but the same potential buyer.

Alright, so we're going on to another offer, $9. No, it's just too low. I have $13. I just have to get... I was taking $9, $8, but now I'm just not going to do that anymore. It's just not worth it. It's only just a dollar Again, I'm getting dollar bill to get to death

on a daily basis, and it's just The world around us is going Crazy things and people are expecting me to do it from a less. It's pretty insane. I have a question when I buy this Do I tell you which model I need? No. No. These fit any awking cube. I can even show you the exact set shipping. I think that's important. This is about a cosmetic thing.

It's for the Nintendo Gamecube. It is the front port cover, the gray cover, and the two little flaps that go with it. So many of those over the years. But most of them that I have left are faded. I have a few. I use Brillo, so you can use Brillo to clean them up. I was able to do that, so that really helped me out to resell. But if they're darkened, I have a lot, so they're not really dark. I can't do that.

At least I don't think I can, because it's the same color throughout the whole thing. So most of my... Let's see what my... So everything was basically messages. I have two orders. Let's check the feedback, of course. I check everything as we go along here.

Two-piece gray sensor bar. Great packing, thank you. So that's that. So that was the sensor bar. I So that's that. So that was the sense of bar. I stripped that right out. People mostly get things within a day or two. No actually like two or three days. Depending on. I'm in Rhode Island.

So that means if you're in California, it's going to take a while. But normally the farthest places that take the longest is down in Florida for some reason. Utah is a really far state, Colorado and Texas. Texas is like my number one. I was I was selling a lot of things in Oregon, too. And of course, I'm on the other side of the country, so it's going to take

a few extra days. Nothing I can do about that. And I've changed all my shipping now to a ground advantage only. No more no more priority. I've been priced out of priority it's the same price now of ground advantage as it used to be for priority so I had to cut corners and that's where I cut there's no reason for priority anymore getting it there an extra day isn't it still getting you I'm still shipping at the same day and I offer free shipping so I choose

With free shipping I get to choose the way I want to ship it because I'm paying for it right so All right, so this guy it looks like the he already ordered the two different ones now. I see the order okay So now I see the order So now I can say now go back to this guy. Okay and tell him I see all right, okay, I See I see the I see the order now. I Will get the sets Together

To show you a bit later this more of the two questions I had earlier was from that. Okay, I think it's alright now. Let's see, couple of things here. So lots of messages, mostly messages, couple orders, but we had some pretty good orders over the weekend. I make just enough, I live order by order to pay the bills, and of course, everyone knows their own bills,

everything's just going crazy. So it's been really hard to keep up. But I seem to manage, so I'm still at a survival hustle, as I call it. You sat out on a side hustle you Build up to a survival hustle and at some point you get you hopefully you get to a thrive hustle I can't say eBay's a thrive hustle because that means I would be having extra money and all that fun stuff, but I don't Still pretty much will stay at a survival hustle. My YouTube I was assuming was gonna be Survival hustle by now, but it's not even close to it. It's not even a side hustle. I've only made $100

All my work to get to a thrive hustle. Oh god knows I would ever get there from YouTube. I Would need to have many K watchers our Views I just don't have many K watchers our Views I just don't have that it's getting better though. It's going up though. I can't I can't say it hasn't going up So I'm still plugging away at it, but we're just at it. We're at a barely a side hustle If not, all right, so we did that I Had to do some some finances here They change the eBay had it so you you know So we did that. I had to do some finances here. They changed it.

eBay had it so within 30 minutes it was not $2 anymore. And then they changed it back to being $2. So I don't know what happened with that. So they took by $2. So that's more stuff they're taking. So I just have two orders which is the glossy silver glossy Xbox 360 fat top and bottom cover and then a he wants the dark black top and bottom which I have so he'll get you so it's two sets to one buyer and then another buyer has Xbox

360 the two chrome bezels and for the front disk drive. I sell those often So so as the other stuff, it's not anything to do with a working inside. It's the outer cover the shells set the screws That's where that's where I sell lots of I'd like to get more persistent listed. It's just hard to do it But I will at some point. I've just been doing a lot of other things too because I have to keep trying to mix it up here alright So that's my morning today. We're gonna get the ps5 I don't only have a couple things to do here so that we can pull all that out Well, I get the disk drive to put on my ps5 slim It's pretty cool, and I got it on PlayStation

I bought a direct with PlayStation at the original price instead of double on eBay also I got my black portal the midnight black portal and it got shipped in one day I ordered a day before my birthday the other day and it came in on my birthday so some videos of me opening it up but I haven't set them up yet it's been sitting on my little work area since then so all right so that's it you can check out all the videos anytime But I haven't set them up yet. It's been sitting on my little work area since then So all right, so that's it you can Check out all the videos anytime during the day. I'll be on with sights and sounds overnight

If you want to come hang out and sleep out with me a little bit And and then you can hear me first thing in the morning. All right, I'll talk to you guys later. All right. Bye