Win Wednesday!

I'm a very positive person on the outside, but if you read everything I write, you'd probably think I'm a very negative person on the outside. In reality, I just never like to show it, so I whine about it when I write. Because of this, I try to find something happy and exciting on Wednesdays now!



So, something I've been wanting to do for awhile is to make my own arcade machine. Got some old arcade machines in an auction, and they're at home waiting for me! More pics from home here:

They look like they made the trip from Indianapolis to Columbus just fine. I'll be taking tons of pictures when I'm working on them, so there'll be plenty to follow!

What I plan on doing:

• Sanding down one of these cabinets to repaint it (don't know what color yet)
• Getting the old screen to work, or replacing it with an old TV screen
• Adding new lights/general fixing up stuff to be more exciting
• Replacing the old joysticks (and maybe buttons) with new ones
• Wiring this all up together
• Dropping an old computer of mine in to run MAME

I get to tinker around with this over Easter break, which I'm pretty excited about, but it definitely will be a summer project.

Win Wednesday

It's hump day, which means that the week is half over. Kinda feeling crummy today, so I wanted to find something happy to write about. Tinkering and fixing problems is one of the big things I do to distract myself from my problems, so here it goes! Happy face time! :)

Actual units I won

Stock photo of the second unit

I got two arcade machines in an online auction, dad is picking it up this Friday. I've always wanted to build/restore one, maybe put a computer with some arcade emulators on it and make a really cool machine. Both of them are games that I don't really care about, so I plan on stripping them out, sanding/repainting them, and restoring them. I don't know when I'll get to this, with school being super busy, graduation fast approaching, and my last family trip (to Europe!) right after graduation. Hopefully I'll find a job soon and a place of my own to work on this project.

The weather's fine and I'm hoping to start feeling good about things soon. Can't get this song out of my head:

That's all for now!