Impulse Buys and Anticipation

Great weekend. I got to hang out with my friends, get some work done on CustomTacos, eat Cracker Barrell and Taco Bell, and catch up on sleep.

Our six-month house inspection was this morning at 7:30AM (ugh!). They just wanted to make sure that everything was going OK and that we were changing our filters, etc. We asked them a few questions we've had and showed them a few things that needed fixin'. They fixed the stuff and were gone by 8:00.

This gave me just enough time to check our SlickDeals.net where I found my impulse buy of the day: a silver ATX case with power supply, plexiglass window, and built-in LED fan for only $31. I guess this'll be my next project: fitting my Blue & White G3 innards into this cool looking case. A guy on AppleFritter did something similar, so I can use his notes as a guide. Should be fun. And hey, if it doesn't work out, I can probably turn around and sell that case on eBay for around $30.

Also on the "accomplished" list from this wekend was resurrecting my webcam at home. I brought both the webcam computer and camera home to play with and found that BOTh are still working fine. Weird. So, I now have the camera in my computer room window looking out the front of our house. The only problem is that the camera doesn;t adjust to bright light very well at all, so instead of the picture being black all day, it'll now be white almost all the time. I'll have to look into fixing that.

And for all of you waiting in suspense to see what comes in my 10lb. box from California, here's something to add to your suspense: I just checked UPS tracking and they show that the package has been delivered. It's aparrently sitting on my front porch right now. The suspense is killing me!

Listening to the "new" Eiffel 65 this morning. Awesome stuff. I think I may have to buy this one. A little corny at times, but still very cool.

Posted by Jeff at March 3, 2003 12:05 PM