Archive for February, 2009

Fight or Flight

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Two months time I get to conquer my fear of flying, traveling alone and leaving the green fields of blighty all in one epic journey to a far away land. I’m going business class as I have enough problems fitting in a cinema seat for 2 hours, let alone an economy class fight for 10+.

I’ll admit it’s a bit of an epic journey, especially as my destination is another internal flight away from the internation airport.

But hey, she’s so worth it.

This time next year, Rodney…

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

So, 11 items down and £131 in the kitty, with another 8 items listed and ending within a few days. I’ve just gotta resist the temptation of spending it all on airsoft gear for the 28th.

Maybe i’ll just spend a little bit on airsoft. Just a holster. And some tactical gloves. What the fuck is tactical about a pair of gloves? When to normal gloves stop being gloves and start being tactical gloves?

Riot shield on ebay for £34.99. Must not buy a riot shield….must not buy a riot shield…

A-ddicted to E-bay

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Since flogging £300 quids worth of old stuff for work the other week i’ve become addicted to selling stuff on ebay. I’m hoping to raise some funds for my flight later this year and selling all my old junk seems a pretty sweet idea.

So far i’ve managed to round up:

Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with Mainboard and 1.5GB RAM
Athlon 2000+ with Mainboard and 1GB RAM
Pentium III 1Ghz with Mainboard, 384MB Ram and a TNT2 32MB Graphics card
Duron 950Mhz with Mainboard, 128MB Ram and a TNT2 32MB Graphics card
Socket 462 Mainboard
450W PSU
195W Small Form Factor PSU
Nvidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI-E Graphics Card
40GB IDE HDD
60GB IDE HDD
80GB IDE HDD
2 Warhammer 40k Sential Walkers, still boxed
Belkin 54g PCI Wi-Fi Card (still boxed and shrinkwrapped)
Dlink 54g USB2 Wi-Fi Dongle
Rainbow 6 Vegas Poker Set (don’t ask)
Antec Green 120mm Case fan
512MB DDR400 Ram
256MB DDR333 Ram

Hoping I can get a couple of hundred quid for that lot. The graphics card is still worth a few quid, and might be able to get £15-25 each for the mainboard combos as they are all fully working and tested.