Weeeeeeeeeeeell fuck.
Here we are again. Thursday night’s prep for Friday’s post. What to talk about. I’m kind of stuck in this state of having so much to deal with I can’t focus on one thing I need to do. Generally I can choose a task and complete it, then move on to the next thing, but recently I’ve just sort of frozen when confronted by a group of things. Since I don’t block out all thought to do with things other than what I’m doing I don’t work as fast and task start to back up. I’m finally starting to reach a level of overwhelm that I can’t power through. Another thing that I do when I reach these points is I start to get distracted by the desire to play. Usually I can ignore that urge. Which is why I have literally a 20 year backlog of incomplete games. Of course the problem is that when I reach this state even when I do allow myself to goof off I want to play something I find comforting. Old games I’ve already completed. Recently that game has been SimCity SNES. I don’t need to finish it. You can’t really finish it at all apart from picking a goal and achieving it. I just like noodling around building different city layouts.

Of course my copy is an original, so the battery was extremely old and it died. My response to this was to get out the soldering set I inherited from my brother in law, and learn how to replace batteries in old games. This amounted to listening to 2 40 minute crash courses on 2X speed and memorizing what I heard. I looked at what they were actually doing when it seemed like something I needed to see to understand. So, after 40 minutes or so I felt like I knew enough to accomplish this task I didn’t really NEED to do. I was able to remove the old battery and solder the new one to the board and now my game saves again. Battery replacement is very much an entry level soldering task. I’ve seen it done in retro modding videos many time, so I had some understanding of what I was getting into already. I bought enough batteries that I could replace all of the ones in my collection and then some. They’re quite cheap. Really, what I should do I fix my Pokemon games, put them in their boxes, and sell them. There’s probably a lot of my collection I don’t need to keep anymore. I’m just being sentimental about it.

I dunno. If nothing else I’ve picked up the basics of a new skill I’ve been interested in for a long time. I didn’t get things done I needed to do in a timely manner, but there’s a silver lining at least. I should go to the local radio Shack and get more of the supplies you need to do soldering properly. I assume they would keep that sort of thing around. Although I’ve never even looked in walmart for braiding wicks or anything. Maybe they have it too. I’ve just become accustomed to them not having things anymore.

One of the things I originally wanted to do after I learned to solder is to make a new light bulb housing for the Tomb Of Doom playset from Tonka’s Super Naturals. The original version is just a standard light bulb with a weird battery of uncommon dimensions. They still make the battery but this toy is the only thing I’ve ever seen one used in. I can, in theory, wire up an LED that will be brighter, last longer, and use less power. The light should also be more clear and white so that the hologram gimmick will work better. I guess I can actually do that now. I have all the stuff I need basically. But I should do all the other important things first…

Bleh. Anyway, there’s another look behind the curtain. I’m goofing around when I should be doing things for money. Which is why I’m not excelling! You gotta get on that grind to succeed! XD

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