Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Sunday 3/16/2025

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

This is a Rainy Stormy Sunday to finish the under-sink DIY for Me Project in the Kitchen.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6 31 a.m. on a Sunday. Today's 3 16 2025. So yesterday I spent a lot of time. I had a desktop come in Pentium 4 and the reason I got that is because I already have a Pentium 3 desktop and I wanted one with a little bit newer so that I could test a lead tech video card and luckily that tested good so now that desktop I got, it's a compact EVO, EVO 510. It's pretty nice. Just really into these old desktops. I'm not getting any more, that's the last one.

I just wanted to play around with the Windows 98 era. Maybe Windows, maybe put Windows 2000 on this one. The actual sticker on it, the serial sticker is Windows 2000, so that's where we're going to put back on it. After that, I really don't, like I mean I got tons of things for Windows 7 and all that I'm just more interested in. Between Windows 95 to Windows 2000 I set up another desktop with XP on it. Of course just in the end of the day it's to play all games and stuff like that. But and then I upgraded the chip for this, well I ordered it, so we'll get a chip coming in for this

desktop from the chip that's in it now, Pentium 4, it's 24 MHz I think it is, I can go up to 3.06 MHz and I think it's socket 478 and that CPU is the last one I can put in there with 533 front side bus there's other chips but then it goes past that and the board won't do it so 533 and it also has hyper threading which my Pentium I have now does not I learned about hyper threading a little bit because as I go through my desktops now Just like I do it all my gaming and everything is that I and my buddy Zippy and I started asking questions And I learned it's pretty interesting stuff So we worked on that and what else did I do yesterday? I did some other stuff, and I can't think about it

But let's go on to Seeing what the morning is gonna be about But let's go on to see what the morning is going to be about. Had a few orders yesterday, today, Sunday. Oh, I've got to finish my under the sink project. I'm not going to video the second part. Just video the first thing, putting the sink nozzle on. The rest of it is underneath and it's really hard to get to and definitely can't really video under there.

So we'll get that finished. That's a Sunday project. All right, let's see what's going on in the world here. Dune awakenings. there so we'll get that finished that's a Sunday project all right this is going on the world here doing awakenings that'd be an interesting game to play I haven't been playing any games at all because I've been into lots of other stuff right now foundations of human intelligence for the first time scientists observe possible foundations of human intelligence interesting always interested in all that kind of stuff

let's see I'm looking around for the news oh I was playing around with my new phone yesterday I have an a16 that I got it came with it was brand new and it was an unknown Carrier found out when I turned it on its spectrum never even heard spectrum, but I use them as Handheld computers, so it's got a little bit better Camera angle it's got a third choice for camera Which is good for me me so that's why I wanted to get it I use it more for the camera and the to do live streams and stuff so we haven't really used it yet but it seems like it's going to be

pretty cool from what I can tell and now no significant difference the size the shape I can actually put it right in my I have an L a Samsung a14 So I can actually put it right inside the case. I have for the a14 it just about fits Just a couple of buttons off a little bit So and I thought to be a little bit more memory to it, but it looks like it has the same amount of memory. So it looks like it's up to the same processor and I have a Samsung S24 that I use again for handheld.

It's WiFi only. I use that for everything. All my videos, my, my, all my eBay listings, photos, so. We'll um, let's go check out this morning. We have an order. I haven't had an order on Etsy in a while. Let's see if we got any fun Yep, of course, it's the screw sets so I sell tons and tons of Nintendo GameCube screw sets the inner inside and All the inside and the full bottom screws most popular screw set. I've sold thousands of those literally And it's still I still have a bunch buckets full but at some

things out of that whole complete screw set I'm getting low on I'm missing certain things but so far I found more stuff so we have a good mount to do for a while alright so it's one thing from Etsy let's check to see if there's any sort of so on Etsy I've had a total in the last 30 days, let's say in the last 7 days, 175 views, 110 visits, 3 orders. Pretty cool. And then using down below I can see feedback, it says the pricing, product availability, we'll buy again from him.

So that's cool. That's all I want. Just good positive full 5star feedback with no issues very helpful very fast shipping so those are what we're all about because that's really all I really do all I do is you order something I try to pull the best I have or I can find and then I ship and usually it's the same day so therefore everything should go good but not necessarily always the case all right so let's look at my RSS feed haven't had any downloads from there directly however it still goes to my YouTube page and then now I'm gonna put my podcast as a daily community post as

well so see my YouTube is actually been growing pretty good significantly actually we'll check that out in one minute we'll segue to that in a minute let's see see if any downloads I have one download. That's awesome. So let's see many new seeds new So the new place in United States Manola, that's pretty awesome Australia Italy Harrisburg, I haven't seen Ashburg in a while. So we've got new dots again There's a map that I look at here on my rss.com feed and it shows me where in the world

my message in a bottle over the internet ocean goes as I call it. So it's really cool it's very very exciting for me. I like to be able to put something out there it's just you know it's just a simple 20 minute, let you know how my day is going to kind of start out. And then anything that goes along with gaming, it's gaming related because it has to do with my eBay, what I'm selling for parts, what I've done as projects. And of course, always go to YouTube, check out my my YouTube always doing videos and live streaming daily so let's segue into YouTube jailbreak let's go to YouTube see what we got going up nice twenty,518 subscribers so in the last 28 days I've had 8,031 new subscribers

which is pretty cool my number finally my revenue went up a dollar that's just the weirdest part $25.64 I've made this month and I've added all these subscribers and it's made not has input it put me gave me an extra dollar that's the sad part just because I just can't hold any sort of retention says average live duration one in 1 minute and 14 seconds. Impression click through 3.4. Views 216. Oh, yesterday, I'll tell you what I did yesterday. I was doing, oh, I unboxed my computer, which is my Compact. And then I was working on my phone

Those are really only two videos I did yesterday But it was long videos about an hour or so I've been doing longer videos trying to My phone one was wasn't as long. It's only about 20 minutes All right, so let's go to eBay see what the the day has just cost my lifeline. Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got going on here. I sold a few things yesterday. Oh, I decided to give a guy asked for two items, two PSPs, and I'm giving it to him for half off.

Feedback. Pack well, item worked better than anticipated. Thanks. Let's see what that is. So that's feedback. I always go right to my feedbacks. Because if I see anything that's a problem, if I get negative or neutral, or sometimes I get positive feedbacks because buyers are in a rush to give me a negative feedback they throw negative words into a positive so I like to see if I see anything that's not nice and fun and positive

then I have to do damage control on it. I always reply to every negative or neutral feedback Because it because there's always two sides to every story even if I did make the mistake which sometimes it is me Not always not usually hardly ever actually but sometimes it is and then I need to Stand up for myself and my feedback So I don't see anything today though. So that's cool. Yay. I don't really don't, I used to when I first started, I used to reply to every feedback, positive and stuff,

but then I stopped doing that. I'd like two green boards versions please. Okay. Oh yeah, okay. So I see him. Someone's asking about a $12 offer for $21. That's a heck no. Ain't doing those for $12.

All right, and so this one, hi, I would like two green boards version, please. Yes. Usually those are the ones that ship. So this is for the Nintendo Gamecube. The power buttons, there's two different kinds. It's the one that is the green one for the power button on the Gamecube and there's a black one. You don't see that as often.

Those were a new or different version and so I both super fan come $16 I think it's raining. It's supposed to rain tonight. I believe. Not positive. It's supposed to. So I have two waters. Let's see what we got. So we got So all the inner screws gonna get in screw sets Is a big seller they always give back well after you're done selling all the big parts And they continue to keep selling for a long time as long as you have them in stock So this is a tender Wii inner and outer screw set. I've got lots of those, I'm going to put some more of those up.

I've been finding them, and I can always pull some more. I have a bin of them. So again, screw sets like that for the Nintendo Wii, the outer, the Tri-Wing screws, there's all kinds of special screws that you would really find nowhere else unless you get them original I mean you can jam any other screw and you want kind of would a different kind of through some even similar thread If you want to do that way, but I don't sound that much Make a few bucks again at my minimum order as I always say is almost at $13 now I

Think I have some stuff left for $12. Once in a while I'll take an offer for maybe a buck less or two but that's it. I can't go anything lower than that now. Because then I'm just giving old money for new money. So if you offer me $8 as I always say it would cost me $8 to get out the door so we got one thing for the we we you which is a side cover and The we bottom screws The inner and outer screws pretty much let's look around

Let's look around and see what's going on here. So let's go back to YouTube for a minute here. Just take a look around YouTube here. I wanted to fix something while I was here on YouTube. So that's pretty much my morning. Pretty simple. Today's Sunday. I only got a couple orders and I got a couple orders from yesterday. So that means I can finish my sink project. I'm going to take out this disposal on the left side that's going to come out and we're just going to put a drain in there because the disposal that's in it is not working now. And they always get really stinky and we really don't use it.

Just going to use it as a drain. So we'll get all that pulled out. Maybe I'll do a quick short, you know what I mean, after I pull it out. It's kind of a pain. Disposals are a real pain to work on. Anything under a sink, in the kitchen sink? I whacked my head when I was doing the video

and I still have a scar. Bleeding. There's always just some casualty I'm doing when I'm working on. I call it DIY for me I never really do anything that good, but just enough to get it done is it basically How I live? That's like kind of my life motto

It's what was I doing all going to live feed. I want to change The thumbnail to something I was doing. Actually that one's better. So I'll try to update the thumbnail. I just leave it as live shots, whatever's going on. Alright, let's see what else we got going on here. So yeah, like I said, YouTube has significantly, I found a little niche. It requires, of course, paying promotions, although I do just really little teeny ones,

$5. And that really helps add subscribers. But if adding subscribers would help increase the income, that would be wonderful, but it's just not. But I'm still hopeful. I don't want to make a million, I just want to, I just need some extra income. I was hoping this was going to be it. Because I would put, I'm already putting thousands and thousands of hours per month into this. YouTube that is. Because I'm doing stuff

all the time anyway, so why not? That's why I'm doing stuff all the time anyway so why not that's why I started doing it because my main focus always is eBay and Etsy so YouTube was just like an afterthought I was like hey let's throw a couple videos and that's how it started and then I just been plugging away at it and so it's come a long way it's been fun and I think I'm getting better at it not positive I made a better space out of it anyway I'm trying to have more I've got tons of stuff to do and I try to mix it up and do different things daily so there's not videos are like nothing compared to the day before. Like yesterday desktop.

So today I went a complete wipe out of that. I have to go back to my something else. Oh my Tandy my radio shack. Original TRS 80 computers. I got them over here the 26-1001 TRS-80s I have two of them the computers I had to get a second monitor 26-1201 because my first 26-1201 works but it won't hold the screen this one fully works in much better shape. It's a little pricey.

I got it all the way from Oregon but it made it here safe and it works. So eventually I'll sell the other one broken or I can try to figure out what's wrong with it down the road. My buddy Zippy gets some eyes so he can help me look at stuff and tell me how to fix it or at least give me more ideas. And I'm gonna learn more about or learn, start learning about unsottering components better. So I can do some basic, like if I see a cap that's blown, I want to be able to desolder that cap, pull it off, and then just replace it with a different one. A new one, and then it should work again.

Simple stuff. I can easily do it. It's just, I have to get the time. I went back to the real basics, the desolder wicks, the little pump things, but I also have a sucker gun. A 220 sucker gun I got 220 volts because it was cheaper and I have a 220 step up so it doesn't matter but it doesn't really the concept was great heat it up and then the gun sucks it

out but it just didn't really seem to work as I was hoping but we'll go back to it we'll spend a Saturday. Again, just one of thousands of different things I could do at any certain point in time per day. But usually, as I always say, eBay is usually what dictates where I'm going for the day. Not always. Like today it really isn't,

because it's a Sunday so I can do something. Plus we're also getting warm so now I gotta get outside. We got some serious business to do outside. So although I've been doing tons and tons and I will continue to do videos and podcasts and stuff about being inside, there's a whole other section coming for going outside. I do silly videos on back mowing the lawn, weed whacking, trimming the trees. There's a bunch of videos like that. I made a section for it. I'll do a whole bunch more of them. Just kind of talking about stuff while I'm doing something. Normally

what I do it's kind of fun.'s kinda like my life in a double shave. That one got a lot of views. I promoted a little bit. Yeah, it's been hanging in there. 1.7K, that's pretty awesome. Again, I would never get these kind of numbers. That one I actually promoted for like $20, which is a lot. I think I almost like $200 in promotions this month.

And I've only made $25. People are like, what? Why are you doing that? What's the point? It's got to be, it's got to break somewhere. I mean it's already broken, meaning the amount of subscribers. I'm getting subscribers by the dozen, but it just doesn't seem to correlate to any sort of revenue

And just at the end they just need a little help. I was hoping maybe a hundred bucks a week I was hoping actually my goal was like a thousand dollars a month to help me pay for extra for all the bills I'm not a money guy I don't need money for anything other than just pay the bills So I keep a roof over my head and then just play around my stuff That's it. That's all I need the money for and I and Selling gaming parts just hasn't been really cutting it. I mean, it's alright But this was gonna be my my second income. I call it

Survival hustle But what I'm trying to do is go from a survive hustle to a thrive hustle But what I'm trying to do is go from a survive hustle to a thrive hustle. That's my next thing, a thrive hustle. And I was hoping my YouTube would be my thrive hustle. It's not even my survival hustle at this point. It's just a little jump change. I made my first $100 last month, but it took me four months to get there. If I'm on track to where I'm at it'll be the same thing in four months from now I'll make another hundred dollars but I'll be still down

like 600 but this is the only way I seem to get to go anywhere so we'll just keep doing what we're doing. Alright you everyone have a good afternoon and I will are good day I should say good Sunday. Enjoy the Sunday For everyone out there that does all their Worshiping and all that stuff enjoy And I will talk to you tomorrow and stop by my youtube awesome videos a player to will be doing some fun things as always All right. Talk to you later. Bye