Big Breakfast, Big Music, and Dog Parades

Both of the dogs were up early early this morning. By the time I finally woke up, Sarah had been up with Nokes for probably and hour and a half, and she with mom and dad had taken a long walk around the block.

We did the big breakfast thing a little later in the morning. Sarah braved making omelettes, and did an awesome job. I tried to make a breakfast tortilla in the tortilla maker. It was good, but not perfect. Next time it will be better:)

One of the original …

Space Invaders Deluxe Boards Fixed!

I got an email back from Alex tonight. He got the boards, did his tests, and fixed them. It was the problem that I had narrowed down with the power supply, this is what he said;

We did find that the -5V voltage regulator on your power regulator board had failed. It’s been replaced, and the power regulator is working properly again.

The motherboard and sound board both tested OK – luckily the problem with the power regulator board didn’t do any damage to them.

My biggest concern was that …

Can’t get my Illustrator crop marks to go away!

This was a problem I was having this morning. I had an Illustrator file that I hadn’t built originally that I had edit and adjust the document size on, and a there were some corresponding crop marks with the original document dimensions.

I was used to using a filter to make crop marks, so I looked through the file to find locked artwork paths for the crop marks, but to no avail. I didn’t realize that there was an object now where you can easily make, preserve, and re-use …

Having company forces you to start cleaning

I got out of work early today because my boss is so nice. I picked up Sarah and we went to the gym and lifted.

We got home, and then went back out on our bikes to run some errands, stopping at the bank, the movie store and Aldi for some buns and green peppers.

Then when we got back, the cleaning started. Sarah did some vacuuming, I organized papers that needed to find a home and picked up general clutter. I didn’t have much of that to do, so I sat …

Progress on the Xevious

We had a Discover gift card from last Christmas, and we had to go to Menard’s on Saturday so I decided to pick up the industrial liquid container of Goof Off. I worked on the top corner of the game, just scraping off a little bit to see how I would apply it and how well the liquid worked. Pretty much worked the same, and it is difficult to apply but by unit it is cheaper as a larger container.

I was killing some time, so I just took apart some …

Final cherries for rare white Mr. Do! bezel

I got the photos for the final Mr. Do! bezel cherries late last week, and I traced the artwork in Illustrator tonight and added them into the original bezel. I am really pumped that I am finally finished with the Mr. Do! bezel and can focus on finding other examples of this machine.

Thanks to Bruce for the final photos of his prized rare white Mr. Do!.