I was in Goodwill yesterday when I saw an old VCR for sale. I thought about buying it, but they wanted $15 for it. $15! That’s absurd, I thought, but then I went home and looked on eBay and Craigslist and found out that you can’t find a VCR for less than $50, and most of them are over $100, so $15 seems like a steal.

So, the stupid VCR has been on my mind all day, but I just didn’t feel like riding all the way to the other end of town. Because I was starting to really feel bad, I knew I needed to ride, and since the Goodwill is right off of my normal route, I stopped in and bought it.

I had no idea if it worked or not, but I was kind of hoping it didn’t, so I could tinker with it. It’s dirty, but it actually mostly works.

There’s audio, and a bit of a picture poking through the static, so all hope is not lost.

It will be fun to take it apart and see what’s inside.

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I found a whole section of old electronics. I found a rack mount patch panel, two old rack mount video selectors, and a rack mount power strip. I also found a large, hard case, with two metal power strips. I stopped looking for things when I was no longer able to carry everything. Bonnie found a few things too. She even found a little Manfrotto tripod for me.

When I carried all of this cool shit up to the front to check out, I was worried they were going to charge a premium for all of the electronics, but she just looked it over, asked me if there was anything in the case – I told her about the power strips – and then said, “How about $40 for everything?” That happened to be exactly how much cash I took out on the way to the sale. I had no problem handing both $20 bills over in exchange for all the cool shit I found. I can’t wait to play with all of it.

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