Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Sunday 3/30/2025
Episode Date: March 30, 2025Day 1 of BackYard Clean-up is in the books with finding a NIDEC Xbox 360 PHAT Fan for an Ebay Order. ...
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Good morning everyone. It is now 632. We're on 330 2025. Today is Sunday.
I think we have a little bit of rain today. But yesterday was actually turned out nice and I had spent my was I needed to get to some xbox 360s in a back shed
Always everything I do it revolves around
An order of something an order that I need the eBay thing something I need to do for gaming
so we decided to
Get out there and get some some stuff done and when I did I got a lot done
I got two I got one I
got two back sheds my gazebo is a 16 by 16 I've had up for about 20 years now
probably 15 and it's just almost completely full with recycle it's where
all my gaming stuff has gone on continue to keep building I keep putting stuff in
there and then I think maybe next year, if I could save up,
I could get somebody with a backhoe to lift it out,
dumpster, and then backhoe all the stuff that's in there.
It's probably the easiest way,
because it's so packed with stuff.
Just metal and plastic.
So all the carcasses of system shells and metal
and all that that I pull as I take orders out of stuff.
It's gotta go somewhere and it's been about eight years of piling up and then
I also have a lots of the Xbox 360s that are heat sinks are pulled but the
motherboard still in the disk drive. So we did we worked on the back shed which
is the furthest one I have in my backyard. In there was a stash of about 43 60s and that was my last stash and in there I found three
of the NIDC fans that I needed. I needed one for an order and again you can always find them by
looking in the back of the grill there. If you don't see the whites of the eyes, which is the white label, you know that the black label is the NIDC. So it's a quick way to
find them without, there's no way I could open up every single one to try to find them.
Luckily that's how I learned how they are. So I can go through 50 of them and find those
exact ones because those fans are quote unquoteunquote quieter on the 360. So we
did that and then I moved around two, I have my two carports in the backyard. I made three sections
of my carport so if you ever check out my carport saga, I used to have two carports in the front. I
overdid it and then the town made me take it all down
My own fault the first carport was up for about a year and then I decided to cover the rest of my driveway with another carport And then somebody in the neighborhood was not happy with that
And it was really fun. That was really cool. I had it set up
But I had to take it all down. so I end up using in the backyard now
And I actually have a better use for them as staging areas
I've won two one staging areas right now is just packed with stuff that a lot of it's gonna get thrown away
The second staging areas right behind another
Storage area that I have I've got two or three of them kind of selling gaming parts in the last
two since
2016 or 17
I've amassed a lot of recyclable parts
And but we're gonna try to get rid of most of within the next year first. I could organize some more areas
So that's what we were doing outside for my first day. So that's day one. I got some good stuff done for day one though
I found my I found three fans. That's cool
So I have two more listed and then the party's over for those fans at the nid ec fans
for the 360 fats
Three pins. I have two left and I think four pin. I have a couple left too
And then that was it. That was my day. I spent the day all in
all and I did some videos earlier taking those apart and then and then I did by that time
my day was about done. I shut my day down a little bit earlier now. I'd say by three
I want to be done and then I sit and play resident. I don't know why I'm Resident, I'm playing Silent Hill 2 still, I'm in 12 hours in.
Big fan of the game, it's been really fun.
Really spooky, every once in a while it makes me jump,
such as long times as I've had a game make me jump.
So that's pretty cool.
So I play that for maybe a half hour, 45 minutes,
and then that's it.
And my day's done.
All right, so let's check on Etsy.
No go on Etsy, I even opened a, I so let's check on Etsy.
No go on Etsy.
I even opened a sale, I even started a sale on Etsy, but I guess it doesn't really make
a difference.
You either sell stuff or you don't.
Let's see if I get any feedback here on Etsy.
So we'll continue, today it's gonna rain, so we're not gonna go out and do anything
today, but I got my first day in.
Kinda got an idea of where got to go for my next
outdoor venture
And then we'll take some videos. We'll take cleaning up a little better because it's such a mess right now
Get a little bit organized. You can kind of see all those spaces where all my stuff is stashed all the
recyclable metal and plastic
Especially in the gazebo. It's pretty it's pretty wild a lot of it's still good if it's good stuff but nobody ever really gets metal frames or
anything as a replacement it's hardly ever so it's kind of hard to sell stuff
like that all right so let's check out my RSS feed this morning
yeah it was really nice out yesterday while I was working and then all of a sudden just changed
and it got really cold.
I was like alright, I put about two, two and a half hours outside and I was like alright
now I'm done.
Cleaned everything up and that was it.
I accomplished everything I needed to for my first day so that's cool.
Last year I had a lot to do in the first week too.
This year it's different but still lots of stuff to do.
Nope, no downloads for the last few days.
Pretty quiet here on the RSS feed but it still goes to my YouTube so at least I'll get a
few views there. I like to keep it constant
consistent I should say
because I do
The same pretty much every each morning just new things are happening
Within that therefore that's why it's called Groundhog Day, but I always like to send my
Message in a bottle over the internet ocean
so that's pretty awesome. We're excited to announce that RS is now an
IBA TechLab certified. It's being trusty
so maybe you got some new stuff going here on RS's feed
and I was supposed to add some sort of a coming in April
so so far it's
seems it's not too expensive because of course it is a subscription to pay for it.
But I learned how to do a podcast and I'm at 248 of them. So pretty cool.
Alright, let's see what my YouTube is doing today.
I had that one long promotion. I did a big promotion on my one-on-one started getting a little
traction not a lot when I haven't quite hit the 3000 mark yet we're at 29,669
subscribers I really haven't grown that much in the last few weeks I really haven't grown that much in the last few weeks. I really haven't promoted that much either, except for the one, 815 of my one-on-one YouTube.
I used to do an update on how things are going.
Speedpack from China was a short.
Intel slot two was a short.
Let's see, and then I did yesterday,
21 views talking about, I pulled the last three 360s I had with those fans in them. Average duration was 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
My revenue has not changed at all. $31.73. I never can get much higher than that. I've
never seen like a $50 a month or anything like that. It's just not possible. No matter
how many new subscribers I get, it doesn't really make a difference. People just come
in to subscribe and that's pretty much it.
So I really don't have any other...
Oh, I'm going to do another stop motion.
I already got an idea.
Actually, I got a few ideas, but those always end up turning out pretty fun.
So then we'll do some more videos outside as well.
All right, so that's that.
Let's go on to eBay. I think my sale I can't remember I know it was gonna end soon
Yeah, I definitely ended because I'm down to one one thing which is fine. I'll take a break. I
Need I need I'm gonna start another sale though
Respond to cancellation, so I had an order and now I don't
Ready then so I'm instead of no orders see details
Order by mistake. These are all the screw sets for the
Super Nintendo the inner screw sets somebody ordered it and then they don't want it
it's somebody ordered it and then they don't want it.
So we canceled that.
I would never not cancel something. If they order something then they cancel it. Yeah, of course I'm going to cancel it.
Let's check out feedback.
I never know what's going to happen. Tiki Bowl.
Great buy.
It was an empty NES case for T-Com Bowl.
Sold it for a few bucks.
Who doesn't need an outer case and all those originals?
Pretty fun.
We're going to do my CPU this morning.
My CPU came in
from China on Speedpack and that is a
it's for Compact
EVO 510 desktop.
I actually ordered the desktop from eBay.
And it was pretty, it wasn't, it was that expensive and it was shipped for what it was shipped for
Because it came over from Colorado, so they paid a lot to get it to me, but so we're upgrading that
Today that's the best chip I can put into it's an SL 6
PG
3.06 gigahertz at 512k was a 533 bus.
It's a 478 socket.
It's as high as I can go on that computer is 533 bus.
And that was the chip, the best chip I could find for that exact computer.
And it was pretty pricey.
And I had to get it from China and I also oh it has
hyper threading is when that first started coming out I forget what the
the benefits of that is but this chip would have that compared to the one I do
have in there now does not and it's gonna be just set up as just the
original it's Windows I believe 98 or Windows 2000 I may put Windows 2000 I can find it. I don't think
I had a copy but I don't know where it is. I may have to look for one. So
everything's looking pretty quiet today which is cool because I'll take a break. I
will get another, I'll start another sale. I still have 5% off I think but we'll do another sale this next couple days
sometimes it's fun just take a little bit of a break I manage to sell some
stuff and take care of the end of the month bills but everything is really
really going up my house valuation just went sky-high so next year my tax is
gonna be crazy. My electric bill like everyone else's is going almost doubled
and it's not that I'm using anymore electricity they just it just ramped they
just changed the prices. So there are lots of things going on that are making things a
little more difficult.
So we really don't try to have to really get anything.
I make enough money just to pay the bills basically.
I maybe have a little bit left.
I bought a couple little things coming in.
What do I got coming in?
Just a couple little small, no more big purchases of any kind.
What do I got coming in?
I ordered all my, I got three compact flash coming in.
So I can, I've got my Dell T500.
We're gonna make that into,
I bought one compact flash through IDE adapter.
It'll fit, oh no, that one's gonna go on my EVO one. So I need
a compact flash. I had ordered one but it got lost. I never got it. First time I really
never got something. And then I ordered a power adapter, 5 volt for Hyperkin. I should
have a 5 volt power adapter. I just couldn't find it. So I just decided to get one.
And of course it's just like upright or something.
It's just a generic replacement, just a 5 volt.
But we'll get that one day it looks like.
And oh, and then I ordered from Germany, I ordered my Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
It's the 8 pin to SCAT adapter.
I won't see that for a while.
It says this hasn't even been shipped yet.
And finally, I got ordered left and right directionals for my PS Vita 2000.
So that's on its way.
We'll get that Providence. Yeah and we'll get that Monday too.
So I can put that, those are easy peasy to replace which is awesome. I never took one
apart. I almost messed up and broke the, cause I didn't see there was a screw inside the
inner flap of the Vita when I was trying to get it apart cause I never did one before.
But we managed to get it apart and then the boards were just easy to pull out, just very micro, those little
micro clips that were all pained.
So when that comes in we'll maybe get that fixed.
I've never had that working yet so I have a couple games for the Vita and then I'm
going to learn how to jailbreak it and all that good stuff.
I'll make that a good video
sooner than later but first I need the directionals to work before I can figure
out how to go about doing that. Of course I'll use YouTube for that. Alright so
today's a kind of a shorter day so you guys have a good afternoon and
I will talk to you tomorrow make Make sure you come by on YouTube,
see what's going on today.
Of course, we'll have some fun videos, something new.
I'm always doing at least one or two,
maybe three videos, a live stream.
Yeah, so come by and stop by.
I'll talk to you later.
All right, bye.