More eBay Madness

Every once and a while, I go through my collection of games and try to figure out which games I'll likely never play again. Those games are destined for the auction block, and often that money is used for new ones. Looking through my DS games tonight, I picked these eight to be listed on eBay. With the retail usually running about $30 to $35 on these things, I'm pretty happy with $20 to $25, and that's what I consistently get. Taking games I never play and getting back some money from them is pretty gratifying.

In case anyone's interested, here's a link to my 8 listings.

eBay Crazy

I love eBay as much as the next guy, but this is crazy. Steph and I sometimes pick up her Grandma Johnsons mail, since she doesn't get out too often. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but her Grandma is a major doll collector. I'm talking hundreds of dolls here. She just finished having her garage converted into a usable room so she has an accessible place to keep them all. Yes, she has that many. Anyway, I'm a little off track. When I went to the post office this morning to get her mail, she had all these packages waiting for her. Apparently her daughter Diana has been buying dolls on eBay and having them shipped directly to her. A nice gesture, but holy cow! How many dolls does one person need?!? I thought Steph's growing collection was bad. When they get everything set up in the "Doll Museum", I'll be sure to get some shots up here. If dolls creap you out as much as they do me, prepare to be horrified.

Popcaps

Ever since I went a little crazy on a great sale at Woodmans for Vault, I've been collecting these bottle caps. Each one has a 15 digit code under the cap that when entered on their website, gives you three points. I've drunk all the pop I bought, and another guy I work with, who also bought two cases, has been giving me his caps as well. Right now, I have 198 points, which is the equivalent of 66 bottles of pop. Unfortunately, after browsing the stuff you can get with these points, I'm starting to wonder if it's even worth it. Since then, I've just been kinda throwing the caps into this empty desk drawer.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I entered those codes visable before I posted this picture. No stealing!

Grados

When I started 3rd shift, I knew I'd have a lot of time on the weekends where the only thing I can really do is either watch tv, a movie, or play Xbox. I really enjoy great sound on two of the three things, but I can't very well have the stereo cranked while Stephanie is upstairs sleeping. I decided to get some headphones. The first set I bought were some wireless Sonys, but the results were less than spectacular. They were constantly full of static, and the sound was awful. After doing much more research, I decided to go with these beauties. They're called Grado SR60s, and man are they amazing. They are a little pricey, but you certainly get what you pay for. Movies and the Xbox sound great through them, and music is unreal. I recommend these to anyone looking for a great set of headphones.

Souvenir

Dad stopped by tonight with a nice little surprise. He bought me this autographed 2005 World Series Baseball signed by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. I'm a really big White Sox fan, and the Sox wining the 2005 World Series is one of my fondest memories. Thanks Dad!

Oh! I forgot to mention that on Monday morning I found out that my request to move my vacation from October to next week has been approved! They were really reluctant to allow me to change it, and I never thought for a second that it would happen. It was a nice surprise, and now, instead of working 3 of the next 4 Saturdays, I only have to work 1. Very nice!

High Definition

About a week ago on eBay I bought a HD DVD player. HD DVD is just like DVD, only the video is High Definition quality. Microsoft, who is the maker of my current favorite game system, the Xbox 360, also makes the player that I bought. It connects to the Xbox, and provides HD DVD and DVD playback agt a very affordable price. The player in the stores runs about $200, but I got my player with three movies for a cool $150. This was a great deal considering the average HD DVD player is about $500. The movies are about $20 each, so really the $200 player only cost about $100. The movies that came with it are The Departed, Batman Begins, and King Kong. These are all pretty good movies, but the real reason I wanted this player is for the BBC documentary Planet Earth. It was shot entirely with HD cameras, and is supposed to be amazing. I just ordered it yesterday, and I'm really looking forward to watching it.

More Yardwork

Sunday afternoons seem to be the day to get my hands dirty lately. Since I'm often working 6 days a week, it's really difficult to find the time to do the little things around here that really need to be done. In the yard, I'm taking these things in bite-sized chunks, and that is helping quite a bit. Today, I finished planting our new landscaping by putting in the final tree while Steph put some flowers in our flower boxes. Moss Roses, which are my favorite, are sometimes really hard to find. We got lucky Saturday night, and Lowes has a few in stock. I also picked up some sticks out of the yard and cut the grass. It's really nice to have a nicely trimmed lawn, but it's oftem hard to find the time to keep it that way. All I really have left as far as the new bushes are concerned is putting in some trim bricks and putting down mulch.