Today's theme: Failesses (Failure-Successes)
The day started off promising enough: Went to the town's weekly flea market-thing and actually found stuff this week (It's like every other I find stuff - two or three weeks ago I found some cool old coins). This time, it was two games (albeit sports games) and two memory cards, all for the N64, for $5...nothing fail-y about it (unless you consider it's a console I don't have yet :V)
Cut to around 10:30, since my dad is like "you need to be on a separate bill now". except two things: 1.) since he pre-payed the bill, my brother and I would have effectively had to pay our share again if we went on our own plans. and 2.) You know how they say stuff is free after mail-in rebate, but the price you pay up-front is in smaller print than the zero dollars thing? Yeah, that happened, and when my dad got home to try and fill out the form thing, our phones were apparently non-rebatable. Email pending, I dunno. But the success part of it was that we all upgraded to smartphones, so maybe I can have motivation to play apps instead of booting up my tablet which I haven't done in who knows how long.
Finally, there's this retro game place in New Bedford (about 30-45 mins from where I live), and I went there before to check the place out, and they had had a Dreamcast for $30, so I thought I would trade in my old xbox [+ its games] and a few other games too. Problem: None of the $30s in available stock (they had $50 black sports ones) and to boot, they offered crap for the xbox stuff [at least from what I felt it was worth, though maybe I should have taken it to get the crap outta my house]. On the plus side: They did have a gamecube also for $30, and there were 4 games I was willing to depart with there (I paid $5 for two of them, and got the other 2 free elsewhere) which gave me $10 credit toward the purchase. So at $22, I can't complain [Now to order a gamecube memory card off amazon.
Pics may be posted later if asked for, but for now, I don't know what to think of today, mainly since there were a few things I'd like to go back there for, but for now, I'm pretty chill with what I have. Maybe I'll find a reasonably-priced Dreamcast elsetimes over the summer, but oh well for now.