Gooday Gaming Guests - Morning. Winds of Change Have Arrived. Where Does My Caretaking & Gaming Day Go Today Monday 1/5/2026

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

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Morning everyone. It is now 4.45 a.m. Today is January the 5th, 2025. We are back to a normal work week starting today. Today's Monday. So all the holidays are done that I've talked about. And now we're just into this two months of really dark, cold, snowy, blizzard winter. So a lot of places have already had a lot of that pretty much. for a few months we've had one of the coldest months uh actually winter so far quite some time not a lot of snow but still more snow than you normally have so i've had i've done three storms outside and then i don't think there's any forecast of any other storm we'll see what comes so yesterday was sunday i worked oh i unboxed my uh tn d t r s a model 2000 i have two of them And after, I did a lot of testing, I couldn't get my monitor to get the screen in it, and I figured out why later. So when I talked to my buddy Zippy on the phone there, she said that the TNDC-M-11 was compatible monitor for that, but it's not. That was the problem.

So I ordered a converter thing with a Raspberry Pi. So that should give me, and that goes from the RGB out into HTML. So that would be pretty cool. That's all my problem. And I'm also going to make some cables too. I'll put some stuff to make some cables so I can test that other port, the port, which is on the bottom, which is a monochrome port. So my buddies have been taught and showed me how I can make a cable.

So we're going to do all that when it comes in and we can test that motherboard port too. I think all those, I have two, two of the accessories. the expansions um one's a video and one's uh ram and i believe all those work too i just couldn't see the screen because the monitor would put it in that 26 million 26 point something megahertz is the what it needs in that monitor unless you have a cm1 so we learned up a lot of things yesterday and then of course i had to work on orders what's a little bit of football but not much we're going to see what happened with What I'm expecting, we're going to know what we're at now.

We're going to do business. And, oh, the Steelers one. So let's see the scores. My up-close vision is really starting to be less now. I've just noticed that in the last. Let's see what the scores were. Raiders actually beat the chiefs while the chiefs

got really bad Broncos beat up on the Chargers oh the Patriots beat up on Buffalo that's pretty awesome Patriots are 14 and 3 so they had a complete reverse from last year they beat up on that ball

so even with all the controversy going on with the Patriots they did a good job but Broncos won so Broncos are first seed means that someone's going to go through Broncos beat up on

they're also 14 and 3 beat up on the Chargers Chiefs lost to the Raiders Run a game that's funny Detroit beat Chicago and I think Pittsburgh's in the playoffs now because they beat the Ravens Ravens and they are not in the playoffs I don't think

Rams beat the Cardinals Commanders won a game They beat the Eagles Interesting The bills beat up on the Jets Poor Jets Boy they got really bad Working bad to a real bad.

Vikings beat the Packers. Interesting. The Jaguars beat up on the Titans, which is the third worst team. Besides the Jets and the Raiders. Texans beat the Colts. Giants won a game. They beat the Cowboys.

Cowboys were just terrible. Of course, they're not going to the playoffs. So they get rid of Dak Crescott and all that in the regroup. The Atlanta Falcons beat the Saints. And the Browns. Oh, Browns won a game. I like that new quarterback. Big fan.

Hit the Bengals. It's pretty awesome. There's a lot of major changes for some of these teams over, like Miami. That'll be all torn apart in the summer. Lots of these teams are going to lose a lot of coaches this summer. Even the Ravens, I would even think the Ravens coach, he's been there forever. Jets, Titans, all those. Free stuff.

All right. So we always got to check that out. Let's get to business now. Now that we've seen that, let's see. Let's see. Somebody wanted something for me. I'm not good. at soldering.

Not good at soldering. It doesn't, it does not. It does not. So this guy's talking about the, yesterday I also did a video. Oh, I got a cool little Memorex vision port, port vision thing in. It's like a little monitor and it worked great.

it worked great so I made a little smaller review I will see what I can do so I wanted to test a Sega Genesis model 2 1631 motherboard thought I had more in the box I only had a couple so we tested those in that little mini monitor little mini me it's really awesome because I don't have a lot of space in my workbench so having a small model like that when i want to it's got an rf i can use an rf and audio video so that means i can pull a big tv out of my way unless i want to show out of big screen but for those it's pretty awesome i know that and has color i didn't even know what that color see what i can do i'll see what i can do all right so let's this was for

percent your buyer on Etsy asking about something one of those motherboards but I just sell it on eBay it's just easier than trying to make another listing on Etsy same thing all right so no sales there but I did have one or one sale yesterday oh that's right okay it's two two and sixty four so I didn't pull all my orders together I didn't actually pack them won't get that done we're all day Let's go to Parkmark. Let's see what's going on here. Anything fun?

I've got to change some of my social media sites to upgrade my new logo name. One hundred, one thousand two hundred ninety followers on parchment. It just means to this pretty quick. Just to make sure there's no sales and there is not. And we'll go right to my RSS speed. I think I have just one download yesterday. yes today let's check it out never know I had a shock one day where I had 554 downloads in the same place that's interesting I hope everyone enjoys my

stuff try to keep it as entertaining as possible nope no download yesterday but we still had 760 in the last 30 days which is phenomenal for me 2,166 it's my message in a bottle over the internet ocean wherever it may go sometimes it's Yeah, so Singapore, I had 554 downloads in the last seven days. Elgin, United States, Berlin, both of the United States. Then, the UK, we had Watford and Poland. Usually I get one or two per download, and then I get new ones later on. So it's pretty cool.

I'll take it. I don't know. Breeze a little bit along here this morning. So let's go to YouTube. I have to stop the morning. I can't afford it anymore. So we're on. We definitely have the break.

so my videos now I would love to share oh no actually hopefully somebody from Google I think it's legit I said schedule a point when somebody from Google today for eBay

Google promotions and I'm looking for my credit I should be having a whole bunch of credit if I get some credit from that for my own well I'll use that credit to promote my videos it's a really good one the last couple days but I just can't afford it anymore I'm done

so see my numbers are 103,224 numbers are still falling the 224 is it was losing at 600 something we stopped promoting for subscribers at this point it doesn't matter if I had 700,000

it only looks good but it doesn't get me any other action so it's kind of moot view hours still 1.6 million I hit 500 500 million no 5 million views

watch hours have gone down 13.4 everything's going to drop now I've got a few more promotion videos left then that's it my Etsy was my favorite place 32.9K after 5 million views 26.7K welcome to my tandyland

it was 25.8K but besides that there's nothing that's going to if I get some of my video I just did last night did two videos I was testing that so we had 17 views that's that's reality for me and then the video before I did earlier it was 41 views so 41 so there's really the only people out of all the 100,000 that actually come

around just is what it is it just do you whatever that may be that's usually will fall into place or not and we've gotten the high numbers and we've gotten the high subscribers and end up in the same results which is $25.93 is my estimate revenue so i'll let's a blast rapad oh i started so let's go right to ebay started up uh what do we do oh we're all always changing up my uh discounts so it's 10% up to a certain amount and then 20% in between there and then 30% for the higher ones no coupons just all straight sales it's easier it's not as confusing so let's see what that did or didn't go to do it so no new feedback for sales oh cool I need a little bit of Apple motherboard

oh my power board good power board 5k good power board cool oh I so up my Vtec smile two learning systems you're awesome motherboard glossy front panel and Sony slim power adapter sweet it's most of this stuff I just recently put up some is gaming parts some as other at VTEC it was cool we had all kinds of games in it and just two controllers and the whole shabam. So that's pretty awesome. I can use that. I found,

I had one forever and then I came across another one. So, so nothing I can pull out today, but we'll do have some sales. Yeah, so we just got to build some hurting bombs for listings. We'll do some more today. I didn't, I didn't do any listing. suggest today.

I actually sat and watched the third episode of Fallout on Prime. Pretty awesome. Still not as good as the first season, because it's pretty cool. A lot of things going on. I don't quite understand what it's about, but. And I like Invasion on Apple TV. It's a pretty awesome invasion. On the second season of that, that's pretty wild.

So while I was doing projects, I was, watching a little video normally I wait till the end of the night and watch up my room but decided to watch it while it was because there was no football games I wanted. Patriots weren't playing until later

they beat up on Miami. So this is the first year I think we've beaten both Miami and the Jets and we were one for one with the Buffalo Bills all got to play I think the playoffs are set and I believe we play

Buffalo again so I have one message and some others let's look at those uh does the water appear to be

these might these might I try to detail photo so that someone's asking about the Sega Game Gear V-A-1 detail with photos of exact board on both sides best I so he was asking some of the caps on there the caps there caps

all these always need replacing. That is just a starting point. this is titled as effective donor, meaning it does not work and may never work, hence the word donor. as you might only be able to use this board to pull parts off. Whoa Flash forward $100 are you insane That's going to cost me

I got wrecked on that last thing I'm insane Are you serious This is going to cost me $100 to ship it. You are now blocked. I'm blocking them. This is my flash forward, porch. Do up that out of sense.

When CD, I got it already as low as I'm going to go. I got wrecked on that last thing I did. And this is even heavier. So I got to expect that we're going to. So yeah, they just, you know, yesterday, once every once in a while, I'll see something I'll say, underpaid. underpaid and it was for that and it was underpaid by they said it was 61 pounds for that big project I did cost me to the $68 and I already did like 30 so it was like

it was 90 bucks oh you got to be kidding me but luckily I haven't heard anything no news is good news that's something I would dread if I had to return that because again it's going to cost me the $100 bring back I don't want that all right so I think that my only offer block that guy I'd be on it just a heck no to do you know how many percent off I have people still want more that's a heck no I didn't know I didn't know I had them that low I haven't that low Yeah, pull all the ram off to test it, but I just haven't got back to it. See what those are going to take those down, actually.

I want to go back through those because I still have an IBM. Those are too low now. It puts the ram back on itself much better. Let's do that. Let's go to purchase notes. It's go to active. Let's not. once I sell

when I sell out of something then I need to take it out of my listings we have to do that we have a few things here I sold out of yesterday a bunch of things I'm working on a

resolve on a problem with my Amiga 1000 motherboard but luckily the buyer is really nice things that just needs the door to board too which I hope that's a little problem worked perfect

but then I took off the expansion CPU expansion. I put it regular CPU back on it and said they can get it to work. But then yesterday he said he got partially working. I fully work. All I do was swap out modded CPU expansion and put back the original CPU. So there should have been any issues, but I didn't test it. That was my problem. That's it on me. But he's working through it. So that's pretty hard. And he just bought the daughter board so it even better. all right so we're going to go to look for how did i want to take those down because i got i got little cut cat things and i want to learn some projects on how to let's do it's just computing correct

integer computer system parts so what we're going to do is not to let that person have that for thirty four dollars and i'm just going to take it down all together and we'll regroup on that I think it's worth it first one of them okay so we're gonna take those down we're gonna start over with those in those listings can't sell them 45 forget delete them we'll go through those some other time well sold spirit technology oh no actually we're going to list my spirit technology back for less now that he doesn't want it so now that he doesn't want it so So I can get that listed.

Let's list. We'll do it. We'll change it though. I'll get that out. $2.90. We'll get that relisted. Okay. Then we have full orders to print out, but I do that after I finish my podcast here.

I use my laptop for this podcast. while I'm just waking up and then going through all my emotions here everything I've got to do and then we'll go back turn my big computer on and then we'll start doing business to get to work

so that's what's playing do that Spirit Port done there Smash Brothers I'm deleting some stuff that was unsold unless I relist it Save that.

Go fix those later. So that's about it for the morning. Decided to take those down. I'm going to go. I have one IBM 50-150 that works. Now I have a little chip tester, so we're going to play around swapping chips and figure out that'll be a project down the road somewhere.

Instead of just selling those boards, I'm having a board chart. I also got some little capy things for them, too. A little, if they're cold, ceramic, something, something. I got some. So that looks like it this one. All right, so everyone have a, well, get back to the work week. It's going to be a little bit of a grind to get back into that. After two weeks of having a mid-holiday, mid-week.

So it's going to be an adjustment. But I work every day. another me all right so everyone you guys have a great day and i will talk to you tomorrow all right bye