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

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

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Happy New Year, everyone. It is now January 1st, 2026, and we are on Thursday. Yeah. So today is officially New Year's Day. Of course, I do not stay up for that fall celebration. I'm sure it would be really fun to do. As we've always talked about, I've been clean and sober since 2011. So another year of sobriety and good mental health to start the new.

new year. So anything, the New Year's thing, mostly requires drinking and things like that and late night. But I go to bed early. I'm always in bed by four. Breaking, get rid of my nights is part of the process of being sober. That's where all the stuff happened. So, whatever was going wrong, you can just eliminate those things and that makes new life a lot better. So we're on the new year, 2026. And also, congratulations to the Nintendo Wii. It is, 20 years old, 2006 might not be exact date. It came out in the U.S. first, and then it came out of the other countries a little bit later. But that was in 2006. So I'm going to add some new stuff to my Etsy store. Because as an Etsy store, you're allowed to do things that's

supposed to be anything 20 years or older or handmade. And another major change that I just made yesterday is my eBay store is now called FF Archive The Forum. I've since taken away the word gaming because I've been

doing, and I'm going to continue to do a lot more, vintage computers and other archive older stuff. So when I, I didn't want to use retro. I was, I didn't want to use, I thought about relic, so that I went to my buddy zipping. I said,

anything word that I can replace. and archive is the one that I liked because everything I have is older and it's you know it could be apples, it could be computers so now I can really venture out so for the new year we changed the name

so we're now officially FF Archive Emporium and the FFF always stands for fast friendly first day that's where I started out as FFF Emporium and then we added archive as

anything old and Emporium means a place with a lot of fun stuff and I really feel that my eBay store is lots of fun stuff so that's official FFF, RK, Archive, Empireum

and we got new logos we worked on yesterday and my buddy Zippy so it's pretty awesome and we're going to change all I changed my Etsy although Etsy really is just all gaming but still I changed it there

YouTube, no eBay Etsy I changed it it and some of the social media places are so yesterday we worked on oh um I finally got the chance to sit down I did take first I had to take all those desktops that were on my workbench here and move more I was a lot of organization yesterday in my room to do that but finally I had some time during the end of the day we did Sega CDs went through them again somebody wants to butt off one of the top covers so I'm gonna pull one of those but normally just sell the whole top cover

trying to sell one button is and people really don't want much but he had a fair offer for just a button so we'll get that done today and today is a holiday so I don't have to really rush of course we had lots of orders yesterday so we got those out New Year's Eve I went and dropped some off the mailman came and picked up the rest of them so always always you want me as you're selling I'll keep pumping stuff out even on technically it was officially kind of like a pre-house holiday but today is actually the holiday so all right so let's see what's going on didn't do anything else much by that of course I was in bed by 430 a barfire in Switzerland oh that sounds terrible hopefully everyone has safe New Year's

wherever you went to and so in however you celebrated you found a ride home because it's very little been very important so let me see what's going on here we look at the local news anything that's anything that disastrous except in switzerland that happened overnight for new year so that's cool another safe new year's at times clear in the book that's pretty awesome let's look at um all right so we'll go away to business here it's one what's going on so let's see nothing going on there we had a couple orders we get once so i'm going to try to get some time this we can stop

put listening that i'd see if i can move some stuff over from e-bag it's kind of pain even i can use a program but i would have to sign up for again pay a migration thing you know bring it from one one place to the other but the thing with etsy is it asked for a wait so i can't do it directly i have to do each one one at a time i'd think about that i think about that i think about that i think I think that's where I'm going to probably sign up for one of them. There's two migration programs I can use. I can't remember the name of them. I'm not.

I haven't been connected to them because I haven't needed to use it. But I can sign up for a month and then just migrate some stuff. It's easier than sitting there trying to do all new listings for Etsy, but it still takes an extra step. I still have to do them one by one. As opposed to pulling things to the parchment, I can do all that just instantly. I just, because there's no, it pretty much goes with one for one right to one to another.

That's you won't let me do that. And Macari is another thing I'd like to try this year with New Year. But besides that, I don't really have any resolutions. I'm just grateful to the, we're all healthy, and it's another year. Starting a new year, still in Life 9.0, which we talk about all the time. my YouTube channel is prologue life 10.3 and at some point

I'll significantly going to change but hopefully not for a long time but we're going to stay in that mode because it could happen any time or not for a long time we'll see. Colvin really escalated everything but then now kind of calmed it down. We both survived Colvin so that was

that was my big thing for 2025 is I had COVID and my mother had it too brutal and also those vaccines were there was this new strains out that just when we pass the vaccine maybe made a little bit less brutal on me I'm not sure my mother so that's how we survived but it was pretty rough all right so that's the thing I'll remember in 2025 I had COVID so Etsy let's go to parchment I got to clean this parchment thing up cut it down just like a hundred or it doesn't cost me to be here so I don't really mind it as we always talk about that too so I have 1,288 followers just the one sale it's kind of repetitive

every day but we got to check it try to keep it in my routine that always do all right so let's go to RSS feed let's see yesterday we had a couple downloads I don't entertain anybody I can out there it's my message in a bottle over the internet ocean wherever it may go and always goes all over the world so it's really cool so let's see what we had yesterday just one download 251 in the last 30 days 1,611 yesterday I don't know if this yesterday the last few days we Miami, United States, Watford, UK, York, UK. So we've got a couple of UKs in there.

It'll sound new. United States, Berlin, and United States, Elgin. So a couple of UKs. I get them once in a while, so I always welcome anywhere from the world that comes around. It's pretty fun. All right, so let's... Oh, then we'll check my monetize, so everyone knows the big bucks we make here for podcasting. I am now at 17 cents.

so far this month. I have no available amounts to take out that 17 cents yet. And my lifetime withdrawals, I've made 15 cents. Somewhere I had 45 cents. If you look back to, I mean a few videos before, I mean podcasts, it was up to 45 cents. I got pumped. I was going to say, I'm going to hit a dollar.

And then all of a sudden, it withdrew the 15 cents, and then the rest of the cents went away. I don't know. I don't know where they went. It must be someone takes money out of my, the percentage gets taken out of it that's kind of a bummer huh

it's my luck with PayPal I mean with my podcast and of course my eBay I'm not my eBay's good as my YouTube that has a problem

but my views are going way up but it just doesn't move over to I'm actually losing money now on I estimated to my 100,000, 3,000

289 subscribers lost the 300 289 I was at the highest level that was 655 so those are still dropping we're not getting any subscribers maybe once in one or two when I do a live feed but we're losing

more but what is going way up is my view is 1.7 million watch hours of 14.1k these are I never had before. The only reason is because I promote every once in a while and I use the last option for Google promotion, which is to go back to your website, which is my eBay still. So now I know how to pull numbers, big numbers. 44.9K is my make.com. So these are when I promote maybe $20 to $40 for a little bit of a span of time. on Amiga 500, 24.4K.

My first cold was still hanging in there at 21.2K. Maybe I think I did one of those at $60. But of course, all that adds up. And there's fewer. But I'm just trying to limit the amount I do. Because even though the numbers are really high, it still does not affect my revenue. At the end of the day, you just kind of want to make a little money here.

It just doesn't happen. All right, so let's go where I do make some money. So I have my survival. hustle, which is eBay. All right, so we had to sign it to our new account. So we switched. It took a while to switch everything over. You can only change your actual title for your

eBay every 30 days. But the store itself, I could do that right away. We started game plan on what I wanted to do yesterday. I had the idea. I ran it through my buddy Zippy. We'd come up to deep what I really wanted. And then we went for it. New Year, new name.

I don't trust this browser here. Let's see if we got sales. Let's look first at... Feedback. Super fast shipping with secure packing as always. I will continue to use this person for all my project needs. Oh, that was that

big. Oh, that was the button in spring for the Atari 5200. Excellent. I'm going to prop, shift, better than described. Five stars. That was a Sony Apple floppy. It probably worked.

I say things just don't work. Or I say untested, because that's all I know. I specifically know it doesn't work. Or I know as an issue. I'll make sure that I'm not going to just say I'm tested. I'll make sure to say it doesn't work. I usually do defective donor. I know something doesn't work.

A great, great item as described, great condition, fast postage. It's kind of be international. So that's bad. We have nothing coming in today, but maybe we have some. Let's assume I got a couple of orders, maybe. Oh, we just want order. So let's see who that is. Just a little guy.

Xbox 1, Distrive Lens assembly. A few of those left. Pull them all. Give them offer a message. We still have three. Tomorrow is when eBay will secondary payment. Oh, somebody's asking what my channel is, so...

Okay, let's see. We tested those. There's two videos that we did for... Somebody's asking about my Amiga power supply. So let's see what he says here. It says, hi, what's your channel? I'm interested in the Amiga power supply. Mega Power Supply.

Two Amiga. One video. I think those ones I tore apart. So, So... So... So... These are the recent

videos videos. So... These are the I said to me that type the twice and I don't remember doing it My site's starting to go a little bit now too. I can't really see that close anymore So it's one video A couple of videos I'm gonna give him so of course if somebody asked me for my YouTube channel for sure I want to share it All right, so we're going to unbox it.

And it's actually not the one that I wanted to do, but we'll put down. Let's find... All right, so I'll send him some links. Ah, goddamn eBay. It does it to me every flipping time. It won't let me do links. Oh, man. It really jammed me up.

Try to communicate with buyers with my links to YouTube to try to sell stuff. And I won't we do it now. It says it's against the policy. I'm not trying to communicate to do anything weird. I'm just trying to send a link. Now, I really don't have. I tried to do it. It's a real pain.

So I'm trying to. sell more stuff so eBay can make more money, yet it jams me up with trying to do it. I'm doing everything legit. There's nothing to do with me communicating to try to sell off eBay or anything like that. It just has to do with selling stuff. Let's see once I do that now, let's see if I can get it. Ah, won't let me do it. Because I went and put three links instead of not doing that.

All right, so we'll move on from that for a second. Okay. I'll give a copy of the Prolog. That way. I'll give it that way. I didn't give the link, but I gave him the title. So I can do it that way. That's fine.

I don't want it. something new today all right so we had one offer one sale two offers for buyers we'll give you a four dollar offer so you know what's gonna happen that no yeah that's it's so that definitely be declined and you are added to the wall blocked the first thing I'm going to do is block you I'm going right to block a buyer we'll add you to my list and I never have to worry about the first thing again because next time I do it right away now because The next thing I'll do, I'll look at it, there'll be a $6 offer.

And then we'll do that every, like, then I don't do that anymore. I'm listening to have to deal with. So that's a heck now. You're on my list. You have up to 5,000 people, I think. 5,000 members I can block. I'm getting there, though. I mean, I'm on some block lists, but not too many.

all right so that takes care of that let's go to selling I think about $11 so yes he just came back with an offer but I just get rid of him he's still on there but the block should kick in now I don't have to worry about it let's go back to I see he should only get we got he snuck in one more or I told you but he did come back with $11 once four dollars eleven dollars that'll be enough now you're blocked just one less thing I could do it so you're a pal just don't want to hold up this

just a one hit one day way more than a half hacker take a break today told a couple things bought a lot of stuff but we're going to we're going to be amassed all my desktop

tandy 1,000 desktops and I ended up having eight of them that I bought over the last few years. So we're going to strip all those down and sew all the parts off all of them one by one. Most of that stuff works. If I remember correctly, I'm going to keep my little RL

because I invested in my Omega 2000, which I was also able to invest in an Omega 2000 bridgeboard, which will turn that into a DOS machine as well. So it'll have all the best bells, those no whistles, and a DOS machine. I really don't need any other ones. So slowly we're going to sell all the other stuff. And I'm not a collector. I'm just an inspector.

So I just wanted to learn about every Tandy that came in that I got over the years. Now I'm ready to just sell it all off. And of course, I'm not going to sell them all parts. Everyone needs parts, and I do that a long term selling the parts. So that's what we're going to do. Well, first we had to get them all together. and we did a video the other day and see that of all the different ones have

really fun stuff I got a couple of monitor extra monitors too for Tandy but I won't ship those I've got them shipped to me but I won't do it it's just too much for disaster waiting to happen

all right everyone so you have a good new year and try to recover if you're indulging last night so you'll be in the recovery mode this one suggest you get clean and sober and stay that way it's once you get Once you get a clear head and a clear mind, things look much, much better. Of course, you have to sit back and look at all the other things you did wrong and some regret and guilt and all that.

But if you stay positive and look at the things going forward, it's pretty fun. Being clean sober. So you're not in that darkness of all of that. So just a little thing that for you. So when you do recover today, think about it. Take a month off from drinking. and all that stuff get yourself together get your act together if you need to need some extra mental health help get that as well anything you can do and you see how

clear everything is it's pretty wild once you want you can really actually see it pretty wild all right everyone so you have a great day and uh enjoyed the new year new year day and i will talk to tomorrow bye