In early 2006, I powered up my old IBM PCjr and realized it would not boot up. The BIOS would beep a few times, but nothing else would happen. How was I supposed to play JumpMan or Shamus?! So to eBay I went and in April 2006 I found and won a working IBM PCjr. It cost me $51 and even came with original manuals, keyboard, and power supply… all in the original box. A great deal in my mind.

Fast forward to the end of August 2007. My original IBM PCjr (which refuses to boot up) just sold on eBay. I threw it back in the original box I previously bought and included my old keyboard and the manuals. The winning bid? A whopping $154.50. I couldn’t believe it. With the housing market in a slump, is this turning out to be prime PCjr selling season?

So I guess the moral of the story is this: Broken crap is worth more than working crap. Who knew?

With the recent demise of SunRocket, I was forced to switch VoIP providers in a pinch. My wife and I did some quick research and had narrowed it down to a few companies that provided features and price comparable to what SunRocket had offered. Since we take advantage of the free long distance and free roaming on our cell phones, having a home phone is not critical – it’s just nice to not have to worry about low batteries and lost signals once in a while. For that reason, we wanted an affordable (read: low price) service. The major VoIP players charge way too much, as do the cable providers. In the end, one company stood above all the rest when it came to the features and the price they offered. Unfortunately, with all the SunRocket customers heading for the same handful of companies, nobody can keep up. After a couple weeks of unreliable service, we’re now faced with our old phone number not yet transfered to our new provider. This means people calling us get a “SunRocket is out of busines” recording.

Turns out there would have been a lot less aggravation if we simply handed out tin cans and ran string to our friend’s houses.

My brother got married on 7-7-7 and I finally got around to taking the pictures off of my camera. A selected sampling of pictures from the evening’s festivities are available on Craig’s site. Go check them out!