Saturday 09/14/2024
On a quiet morning I met with Mary for a short rehearsal of our song. Then I sat down with the three (3!) Tetris Jr. games I bought off eBay. The third one came in the mail yesterday.
One, from Japan, was in fine shape. I put batteries in and it worked fine.
One was sold as “junk for parts”. It had two problems. One of the little buttons on the face had broken. And when I put batteries in it, it kind of worked but a block of pixels on the little screen was dead.
The third, which came from Spain, was still in its original blister-pack. The package copy was all in English. On this one, the little LCD screen had turned mostly black, so it was unusable. But I took the buttons from it and put them in the “junk” one. Then I took another part, I don’t want to spend 500 words trying to explain which, but anyway, swapped another part, and bingo, the dead pixels were back! So now I had two fully working ones, to go with my old original.
About 2:30pm I was feeling pretty sluggish. The temp outside was around 70F and I thought, I should really go for a walk. Where? Well, why not the famous Dish walk? I haven’t done that in a while (later I searched this blog, it was February of ’22). So I drove over there and was able to park and I walked the Dish walk, a 3.5 mile loop that goes past the big radio astronomy dish. It has lots of hills. I was walking slow, in fact I was passed by a lot of people, and I passed nobody. But I made it.
Codgerville 