The Projector Is Sold

Posted on by Jordan

My first brush with Craigslist has concluded with success.

I think things could have gone a lot better but I did sell my projector, and it has been picked up before I had to move it. The downside is I under-estimated peoples interest in the projector, and was impatient in selling it. If I had been willing to take two weeks to sell it, and started the price about 25% higher, I think I could have sold it for quite a bit higher than I ended up making the sale for.

All the same any cash is a lot more useful to me than having electronics decaying in a closet somewhere. A 780p image stretched over a 110″ diagonal screen looks pretty good, but it will be obsolete by the time I live in a place I could set it up again. I would love to see organic displays come into their own, or something along those lines. Whatever happens I will be content to sit on the sidelines for a year or two and see what becomes the next cutting-edge.

Also my new monitor has an HDMI input port, so if I really really need to see something in HD I can use that 🙂

-Jordan

And It Just Gets Worse

Posted on by Jordan

I suppose I should take the hint and stop complaining about weather on the blog. I said it was cold yesterday, and now today is not only colder, but driving to work required scraping my windows!

Scraping ice isn’t a chore I really mind that much, but doing it today was depressing. Its not even November yet, I didn’t want to start doing this every day quite yet. Then again, Saturday was nice enough I didn’t even need a coat, so I shouldn’t act like its going to be bitterly cold until March. The weather will swing the other way a few times I am sure.

I might have my projector sold, but it will be a few days until I know for sure. Selling off a few things I own, and cutting ourselves down to just one round of rent and utilities for the remaining time until the wedding is going to do wonders for our goal of paying off all our debt ASAP. Dave Ramsey would be proud I am sure 🙂

Only three more days until I move, and I am maybe 15% packed… you would think I could have used some of that time last week when Heather was gone to get that take care of, but I really didn’t accomplish much on that front. Moving is more fun if you wait till the last minute anyway, right?

-Jordan

(Doing these rambling multi-topic posts is messing up my nice clean plan for categories and tags, you would think the editor would crack down on that)