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Honeymoon is booked

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Today I hopped on sandals.com and booked our honeymoon. A fun and sun-filled week on the lovely Carribean isle of Antigua – looks like it’s really nice, and I haven’t heard anything but good things about the Sandals Resorts.

The really fun part is, our flight leaves at 6 AM the morning after the wedding. So that means getting out the door of the hotel before 5 AM. And the reception will probably go until midnight – it’s going to be an exhausing 48 hours or so.

There were later flights, or we could leave on Monday or Tuesday, but those options really were worse. It’s either leave at the crack of dawn on the 1st, make a short hop to Atlanta, then arrive in Antigua at 3 in the afternoon; OR leave at the same time next day, fly to Chicago (I’m not kidding), fly to San Juan, have a 3 hour layover, then finally get to Antigua around 8:30 at night. And the flight costs more to boot.

So yeah, I think we can deal with leaving on the 1st, being a bit tired and getting a good snooze on the plane.

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Begging for stuff

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…though I believe the official term is “Wedding Registry”. Emily and I spent the better part of Sunday registering for gifts at the Pottery Barn, as well as Bed Bath and Beyond. That is a tiring process… we were at Bed Bath and Beyond a good hour after they closed, zapping stuff with the registry gun. But a lot of fun as well.

At Bed Bath and Beyond I noticed their little electronic kiosks were still using Netscape 4 as their browser… icky icky.

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My first “Rarity: 8” cartridge!

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On a gaming website I frequent, I’m probably the only person actively interested in anything pre-Nintendo. So whenever someone has some old Atari games to unload, I’m usually the one they unload them upon icon_smile.gif

Recently a guy said he found 40 or so cartridges in his basement, as well as a 2600 and a few joysticks. We worked out a deal, and I ended up getting the whole deal for $80 plus shipping.

I received the package yesterday, and the first thing I noticed was how nice all the carts were… they were all in excellent condition. The Activision carts had virtually no “plaque”, all of the labels were secure and clean, no grime anywhere – they looked like they had been pampered from day one.

But even more exciting was the handful of 4- and 5- rarity carts… the “Pole Posit’n” label, Donkey Kong Jr., Mr. Do., etc. But the coup de gracie was the pristine Mr. Do!’s Castle cartridge. I knew it wasn’t common, but looking it up on the Atari Age rarity guide, turns out it’s an 8. I’d say that made the bundle worth it right there.

I looked it up on ebay, and it’s not quite going for the fortune I expected it to command icon_smile.gif There are quite a few games that are rare that aren’t exactly well known or highly sought after, and apparently this is one of them. No matter – I just like the fact that I have an “8” now icon_smile.gif

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…and we’ve got a preacher

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Just talked to Jeff Jacob, associate pastor at the church I grew up in. He said he’d be glad to do the wedding, so that’s great too!