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Dec. 20th, 2025 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyChristmas break is here so I'm off for over two weeks. There's a chance I can be asked to go in, and there's a chance I'll do it because $$$. If not, I'll be fine.
Do I need another radio-control car? No. Do I want one? Yes. This is exactly what I knew would happen when I got the Blackfoot truck almost 2 years ago. The kit I'm looking to get requires the end user to supply their own radio, steering servo, speed controller, and motor. That sounds like a rip-off but it's really not.
All six VCRs here do in fact have something wrong with them. As none of them are from this side of the year 2000, this is somehow less surprising than if any of them worked. I still have a few options for a couple of them, so I'm not completely out of luck. But some of the older ones from the 80s, nah, they might be done. So I do what I usually do, which is put them back together and back onto the shelf with the intention of getting to them again later.
I discovered that one of them had an original price tag of about $550 when new in 1984. Adjusted for inflation, that comes out to about $1700 in 2025. I got it for free in 1994, which comes out to free in 2025. I got my money's worth from that one.
Made some more sandwich topping/dip. Sour cream base, with gorgonzola and parmesan cheeses as a thickener, bacon bits, some hot sauce, assorted spices, salt & pepper, some horseradish, and some more hot sauce to give it some kick. Except for the sour cream that's in 8 ounce increments, the rest of the ingredients are just thrown in by vibe.
Do I need another radio-control car? No. Do I want one? Yes. This is exactly what I knew would happen when I got the Blackfoot truck almost 2 years ago. The kit I'm looking to get requires the end user to supply their own radio, steering servo, speed controller, and motor. That sounds like a rip-off but it's really not.
All six VCRs here do in fact have something wrong with them. As none of them are from this side of the year 2000, this is somehow less surprising than if any of them worked. I still have a few options for a couple of them, so I'm not completely out of luck. But some of the older ones from the 80s, nah, they might be done. So I do what I usually do, which is put them back together and back onto the shelf with the intention of getting to them again later.
I discovered that one of them had an original price tag of about $550 when new in 1984. Adjusted for inflation, that comes out to about $1700 in 2025. I got it for free in 1994, which comes out to free in 2025. I got my money's worth from that one.
Made some more sandwich topping/dip. Sour cream base, with gorgonzola and parmesan cheeses as a thickener, bacon bits, some hot sauce, assorted spices, salt & pepper, some horseradish, and some more hot sauce to give it some kick. Except for the sour cream that's in 8 ounce increments, the rest of the ingredients are just thrown in by vibe.
