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2003-10-09 - 12:41 a.m. The Video Game Blues... or How to Give Your Cat a Perm in one easy step When I first moved in with the chick and set up my TV and stereo system. I had mentioned I had an old Sega Genesis kicking around. That's not really that exciting except I own Monopoly on it. So, it now makes the Sega super useful cause Monopoly has so many pieces and this way you can play it and when the games over you can just shut it off and the game is cleaned up. Well, I found the box I had put the dear old Sega in and hooked it up. Plugged in the Adapter and flipped the switch. Nothing. WTF?! I checked the connection and tried again. STILL Nothing. I was rather disappointed about it. I said I'd have to go find a new adapter. Well, As you can tell it's October now. I decided to go down to a pawn shop and buy a used sega. That way I could get a whole system. Don't ask me why I do crazy things like this but it only cost me $25 bux. I also picked up three more games for it. "Batman Forever" (Cause I'm a Batman Fanatic), "Star Trek : TNG" (Cause I rented it a long time ago and never finished it), and "Jurassic Park". I bought the last one for The Chick's Son cause he's really into dinosaurs. He's only 5 and video games at the moment are still a challenge for it so my old Sega is perfect for him. Anyway, So I hooked it up and let The Kid play. He was pretty excited about it. He got to play for a 15 minutes before he had to go to soccer. Meanwhile, The Chick and I then plugged in Monopoly. I eventually lost. Anyway, Once The Kid got back from soccer I let him play for another 15 minutes before his bedtime came roaring along. He was pretty good about since I told him his time was limited. Anyway, We all went to bed. I woke up somewhere around 11am as it was my day off. The Chick and The Kid were already gone. So, i thought, I'd sit down and try and figure out the "Batman Forever" game since it was a loose cartridge game and so I have no manual. I plugged in the adapter and flipped the switch. Nothing. WTF?! I checked the connection. Looked over at the Adapter (This one has a power LED on it) and the LED was on. I flipped the switch again. STILL nothing. I followed the cord from the Sega back to the wall that's when I saw it. About half way up the cord it was in two pieces. Yep... One of the cat's (I figured The Stink) had chewed through the cord sometime during the night. Fortunately for Stink, I had unplugged the adapter otherwise I might have a cat with a perm. Dammit! $25 for ONE fucking day of having a working Video Game System again. How frustrating. Try explaining THAT to a FIVE year old. When he got home from school he took the news quite well as I showed him the two pieces of adapter that should be one. Being the inquistive one he is he asked me could I just put the pieces back together? I told him, yes, I could but I didn't have the right tools/stuff to fix it. So, We went a day without it. He really likes it alread you can tell cause the whole night and the next morning when he was sitting watching TV he would hold the controller like he was playing and move the joypad and push the buttons. I had a good secret laugh about watching that. I had to go back to work this morning. So, I couldn't do anything about it in the day. After work I stopped by the Hardware store. I walked around picking up items I needed. Wire Strippers/Cutters, Soldering Iron, and Solder, of course. I got home and before I even had dinner I sat down at the coffee table and started Surgery. Just Call Me Dr. Bingoguy. I stripped the wires cut a bit of excess off and then twisted the wires together. All the while heating the soldering iron. I was actually quite amazed with myself. My Soldering job was really neat and tidy. I can't tell you the last time I actually soldered to wires together. I managed to get nice even solder across the wires. Then came the moment of truth. Testing the Adapter. I wrapped the newly soldered wires in electrical tape nice and tight. I plugged it into the Sega and into the wall. Crossed my fingers and flipped the switch. Yee-HAW! Hot Dog! It worked, first try! I rock. Only $25 for the new Sega plus $30 in electrical repair equipment. $55 dollars later, I've got a Sega again! Now a five year old gets to play the "Dinosaur" game. But I'm pretty sure The Chick is the happiest cause she gets to kick my ass at "Monopoly" again. Which is where I'm going right now.
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