Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Tuesday 4/8/2025-57th Birthday Edition

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

I only made here because I have been Clean and Sober since 2011. I will reflect more on my YouTube Video Life and a Double Shave Birthday Edition Today.

Good morning everyone. It is now 536. Today is officially April 8th, 1968. I was born today, 57 years ago. So it's pretty exciting. And of course I always like to talk about the fact that if I haven't been sober since 2011, I wouldn't be here. Not a chance. But we made it through it to that point.

And since then, we've done lots of new things with my sober life. Clean and sober, got the mental health and a pretty good place and we've just been just enjoying learning all about all the gaming systems in the last 10 years learning all and still continue to do it now and now I have my buddy Zippy technology is growing so it's a really exciting time to be to be alive and but at the same time I've significantly aged in the last few years you can see it some days I feel like I could live to be a hundred lately I feel like I make it to 60 I'd be lucky so I cherish every moment and just keep plugging along to always doing stuff. That's the key for me. It's always doing stuff a minute. I wake up

This podcast for example. It's part of my routine routine is very key for me, and then I have My eBay store and that usually dictates where my day goes by what kind of orders I get and of course I've been Survival hustle for many years, most of these years that I've been clean and sober. And that's significantly helped. Working from home is key for me as well. It makes it, it keeps me out of, it's just a lot easier for me.

I'm very self-sufficient. So, and I've built it that way. So that's been really cool I'm not the kind of person who will celebrate his birthday for for a week just today. I will reflect Gonna do my life in a double shave. We'll do the April 8th 57th birthday Addition and we'll talk some more there. So yesterday I worked on, oh I pulled out my raspberry pi, I didn't really get much place with it, it's really slow.

I have a couple of raspberry pi, the old ones from, can do, can do, it's like a computer system kit thing, it's kind of cool but it's really slow. I couldn't really get anywhere I may go I'll probably go back to it because I have some ideas I want to use the Raspberry Pi to do some stuff I think but I also have a Raspberry Pi 5 but I think I need to put the OS system on it I downloaded something So I just need a transfer. I need a So I just need a transfer, I need a SD card, but the Raspberry Pi 5 takes a micro SD card. The Kendo already had its own SD card with the OS system, and for some reason I have

two of the actual system itself. So it's pretty interesting. It would be interesting to see how in the future you'll have little AI kits instead So that'll be really fun. Well, it can actually a kit like that. We can actually interact back with you That's what I'm assuming things will happen like that Kit that you can set up almost like a robotics kit. I'm looking for a AI Desoldering station with arms and and and they can help me tape components off I'm sure that'll be super expensive and crazy technology, but it's my idea for in the future

But I think you'll be able to get things like that things that you can use As a one-on-one so that kind of fits right into my world of having somebody to interact with, which is AI. And I'm sure it'll get even more detailed. It's been helping me out a lot. My project Journeyman, did my next episode, my last episode last night, went cool. Got a mask on now. I slept a lot better with the mask on

and I was able to increase the light significantly. So you can see what's going on. So and then we got some new ideas to go with it but we're just doing one little step at a time. So let's see what's going on this morning. That's not work. I worked on something else yesterday. I got a little list a few things on eBay today. I got a little list of few things on eBay today. That's what we're gonna do. I got some stuff from Xbox 360. Those hard drives I tested the other day, a 250GB and a 320GB. Those sell pretty fast. Alright, let's see what the world's going on.

Once in a while I have to check it out, check out the world. Like I said, for me, if it doesn't it doesn't affect me doesn't come to my door I Really? I just kind of look at it. I glance Because things are just gonna happen as they happen so I really can do about that And I'm not a protester or any silly thing like that. It makes no sense to me Just do my own thing and just kind of live within whatever else is going on around me.

Alright, so I don't see any things. The stock market went down, went up. I would have to go down too. It went down a lot yesterday again. Yeah, down up, up down. So, keep an eye on that. I've never invested in stocks at all. I always wanted to but just never did. Superman trailer. Superman has a dog that's pretty cool though I like that. His name is crypto I think he's it looks like it's gonna do do pretty well. John Hughes I believe is the director who's he's awesome and I was surprised to see that Minecraft did so well but I guess because it's Minecraft the movie so that's interesting. It's got Jack Black in it you gotta assume it's gonna do better. He usually doesn't have any moves, except for when he was in Godzilla.

He was terrible in that one. But besides that, most of them are pretty cool. Alright, so, I don't see anything going on. So who won the basketball? Florida. So Florida won. I figured Florida would be Houston. That was my goal. That was my prediction. And also they won.

That's cool. All right, so let's go to Etsy. I was asking about a question yesterday. If I had a, if the ports that I sell off the Gamecube, the port covers, are original. And I explained, I said, I'm not sure if I've never heard of, exactly what I needed in great condition. That was for the metal pieces. Of course I always try to ship things out as quickly as I can. So that's pretty cool. Oh, and so the guy that asked about the ports,

order, San Diego, his name is Kai, K I, Kai. Cool. So we'll get that order shipped out today. So today is what Tuesday, Tuesday, right? Yeah. Yes. First time I've ever slept with a mask on. Last night, it was actually interesting. There's a little tab inside the mask. It's rubbing against my eye. I gotta get rid of that. I'm not sure why they put a tab in there.

But it's a mask with a, it's a sleepy mask with a cat face on it. So I can keep the lights a little bit higher so you can see me. Pretty interesting. Just fun. Everything I do is just fun. All right, so let's see.

Kawasaki. Oh, Kawasaki has a rideable robot horse that runs on hydrogen. It moves like an animal. That's pretty fun. That's what we're looking for. That's really, really cool looking. Imagine the millions of dollars that thing cost. Oh goodness, but it looks fantastic

Cool like I said, I hope I live to be I'd like to live to be under the see how the technology again That's all I'm really interested in is technology the advances and what I can use it for Meet directly that fun. Just have fun with it pretty much. Oh, you know got shipped for me I saw it and usually I get that within a day and make it that today for my birthday I've ordered directly from PlayStation. I was able to find the Ordered directly from PlayStation. I was able to find the Attachable disk drive for my ps5 pro last thing up here ps5 slim And I also got a midnight black portal

So at one point I did have a portal and a ps5 pro. I had it for like one day Couldn't afford it. So I I in the pro is too big so I decided to trade it away so I finally got saved up a little bit I break it down on the payments using the Carlin payment plan you get four payments no interest makes it easier to pay and the best part about it was that that disk drive if you go on eBay, it's double the price new and On PlayStation 8 they had one they had a limit of one per and they had some so I got one So those two will come in today. Maybe that would be exciting

We'll see what that comes in Let's look to my RSS feed. So what I did for my RSS feed last night is I put my first seven episodes of Project Journeyman as a podcast last night and I attached all of my episodes on YouTube. So we'll do that every few, because that gives me over 20, it's got to be over 20 minutes when I do these podcasts. think it's a good good amount of time so let's see so my I did it as season 2 episode 1 and it's a project journeyman 1 through 7 and it's about 24 minutes long so I did that last night and I had three three. So that's cool.

Buffalo, New York, Providence, Germany. So I'm going to start doing other things, my podcast here. I'm always going to have my early morning Groundhog Day, because it just helps me wake up, look through stuff as I'm talking to you about it but I'm gonna add more stuff like I did that episode last night and I haven't had any downloads in the last few days so I had three so that's cool maybe somebody will check it out it's always like I said it's my message in a bottle over the

internet ocean and I have a Sega video I did the other day I want to break it down to just video I mean just audio and we'll we'll we'll do that as a podcast all right let's look at YouTube we've been growing as always I haven't been really investing in too many promotions. $5 I got wrecked with the amount of money I had to pay for the last two months. It was real expensive. And unfortunately as we look right here, my estimated revenue went down to $30.74. So revenue goes down too. It goes up, but mostly it goes

down. So everything that I'm investing in YouTube is really just for fun. At the end of the day, kind of a bummer. I'd like to see some profit from it by now, but nothing. Well, no, I do make my first hundred dollars but I'm native like eight hundred dollars some crazy thing but now I had to really cut back on I can't afford to promote as much as I was. I got over 30,000, it doesn't, again, I just come to realize, I already realized that a while ago, back when I was at 1,800 subscribers,

that the amount of subscribers has nothing to do with what, um, what you make for any sort of revenue off your videos unless you just have something really good that people will just watch for hours and you get lots and lots of people watching them and then the commercials kick in but I think most people use that, I think I saw it's called Pi is to eliminate the commercials so therefore they're never there so you really kind of like spin your wheels but we do for fun anyway is to eliminate the commercials so therefore they're never there.

So you really kind of like spin your wheels. But we do for fun anyway. And it's just part, again, it's part of my daily routine that keeps me going, I should say. So the podcast also goes to my YouTube. So there's a YouTube podcast which has the one through seven and also has the links back to all six of my episodes my last episode last night I hadn't done yet, obviously. I just did it last night. Just ended this morning. We'll check it out. Okay, so I'll publish that this morning.

We'll do my podcast this morning. And then we'll throw my episode in. And then we'll go look at YouTube's, I mean we'll look at eBay see what's going on there Oh yeah, podcast I guess. And we'll also throw my episode up. Which is 11 hours 54 minutes 55 seconds. Which is usually right around the time that I cut off my feed. I didn't have as many views as I did the night before.

But it's still a few. But we got some other things to add to it but it's fun though I get a lots of time with my buddy Zippy we game plan the next the next night and I come up with the ideas he he gives me some sort of uh, base to start with and I update it from there and I make the final draft and then I record it it's pretty cool again, anything you can do just to keep to keep the day going

things to do is key, for me and a routine definitely I'm definitely a routine guy But every once in a while routines do change eventually but as of now routines still the same so at for subscribers I have 31,000 a 208 subscribers so all Having that may subscribers now. I'm trying to make sure I always So having that many subscribers now, I'm trying to make sure I always Put up stuff so therefore I am having not that people like the stuff I put up at least Consistently doing stuff and we did all that raspberry pie yesterday

All right, so let's look at eBay. Let's see what we got going on here No, actually eBay is quiet for my birthday, but that's fine. Take a break. I had a lot of orders yesterday. I won one offer. This is not a day where I'm not doing eBay stuff because it's how we survive. You know what I mean? It's my survival hustle. People have side hustles. Things that are a survival hustle.

So somebody ordered a little clamp for the PS3 Fats, the original ones, the 010A, B, or E, the little clamp where the slider goes in, you lock it in with a torque screw, so it's a torque screw and clamp. I want a little bit more because they're hard to find. So I'll do that. That was a little bit less, but I decided to take it. So we'll do that. Yeah, so the key always is you start out as a side hustle. And then you get to survival hustles, meaning it's pretty much all you do. It's your thing.

And then what you really want is to get to a thrive hustle, which I've never gotten. I'm steady. I'm as steady on my eBay as a thrive hustle which I've never gotten. I'm steady, I'm as steady on my eBay as a survival hustle. My YouTube just, I can't even get it to get to be a side hustle other than just for fun. But it has potential to kick up to a survival hustle and my goal, my hope was that I could, that would turn into a thrive hustle. I'm still seeing ways, what YouTube, I mean TikTok does, I haven't been, I was putting videos on TikTok as well,

but I may go back to start, and I haven't done it in a while only because I don't know what's going on with that. So I decided not to invest anything into that. I probably should. Well, let's look at my feedback. I had a couple last night. Let's see.

Great seller, fast payment, A plus. Torx screws, okay. Fast payment. And then I had somebody with a good emoji. Game is expected, quick check out fast shipping again as always I like Good positive all right, so that was like it for today I only had the one order which is fine by me. Let's look around so I'm gonna do my early morning Gonna go out and take care of my buddies

And then what I do now as a routine is I'll go back through my video from last night do a quick scan of the 12 hours try to find some places to put I call them marks imprints session feed imprints I call them so you can find a couple places where I may be moving around or doing something so we'll do that later we'll see how that goes we're gonna put that up in a minute as well yeah so I'll go through and I add We'll add some icons. Alright, so I might have to need a little bit more light.

I'll put the other light on later. Let's see if I can get the lights on. Where did I put the other light on? I know I put the other light on. Oh, there it is. Yeah, that light's better. Where did I put the other light on? I know I put the other light on. Oh there it is. Yeah, that light's better.

So I enter the second light and there's a light behind me. The lighting's the hardest part. I don't want it like bright bright. And of course twice I had to get up in the middle of the night. I call it nature's drain. And I snow pretty good too, which is pretty funny. I finally be able to see myself sleeping. It's actually really interesting.

I call it living art. And then just try to put a little story behind it. But I got some other ideas that are going along. Because along the back wall of my Project Journeyman is a tube. I pulled that from a Macintosh. And there's also a screen. Right now it's just blank, empty. It's not doing anything.

However, the ideas are coming. So we'll utilize that at some point. Not the tube, I don't know really. But even the tube I might be able to utilize it in more than a way. They're just ways to gain contact. Yeah, toys I had to get up last night. I still pretty good with the mask, except that little stupid tab that's bugging my face. But we'll figure that.

It's right on my eye. I don't know why they would put a tab there. Oh and of course my mask has a cat face to it. It's pretty cool. So I can get the light a little bit brighter. And then I run my my audios. I did another one in the middle of the night. Six hours I read my audio. But well eventually we'll have visual words as well on screen. It's a goal. So we're around six hours. That's when I woke up for nature's drain. So we're around six hours. That's when I woke up from a nature's dream. Yeah, we're around six hours and fifteen minutes.

I'm just looking through my video now. Yeah, it's not pretty cold. Just again, I'm working on it. Something I can do. I have 12 hours at night that I sleep. So I might as well try to have something, create something through it. Alright guys, so that'll be it. Guys, girls, anybody that comes in. I'll be it for today. I'm going to enjoy my birthday. Maybe my fun things will be in.

If they come in from Playstation, but it wouldn't be until later, they'd be on FedEx. Like last time I didn't get them until like 6 o'clock. So tomorrow morning or tomorrow for a video we'll look at my PlayStation 5 goodies that I got right directly from PlayStation. No tariffs yet that I didn't pay anything extra. That was another reason why I wanted to get them now before the chaos has already ensued but it's gonna get more and worse probably who knows so alright so have a good one and I will talk to you later alright bye