50 @ 50 # 4

My favorite hat!

Another unprofitable Saturday morning.

Visited a couple parks in Sarpy County and found mostly crap.  Then, on the way home, I stopped a little park and found a 'diamond' earring.  I'm 99.8% sure that it's a CZ.  The setting is crap.

An interesting but unprofitable Saturday morning.

One Kennedy half dollar, 3 quarters, 3 dimes (one 1936 Mercury (silver yo!), a token of some sort and 11 nasty pennies.

This is what is I typically find at a sandy playground and the surrounding areas.

Paper clips and bobby pins are all over most play grounds. I didn't know bobby pins were still a thing.  Pull tabs and bottle caps generally come next.  Not pictures are shards of beer cans and foil juice pouches.  I find these oftentimes buried under about 5 inches of sand or wood chips.  There's usually a trash can nearby. I guess kids just don't care.

Today's Loot Haul

This is not turning into a lucrative hobby.

9 bobby pins
4 'tent' spikey things
1 rusty fish hook
1 decent safety pin
two pull tabs
three bottle caps
one bullet casing
1 plastic diamond
random foil junk
3 pennies
1 nickle
2 dimes
a snap

Loot Haul 9/12/15

A short trip to Roberts Skate Park near 78th and Dodge after getting a semi-flat tire fixed at Discount Tire.

Five whole pennies of no special significance. A useful spoon. An old pepsi cap and a bunch of rusty crap.

This is definitely not the way to get rich quick.

Total haul thus far: 4.74

I found a *come up* at the Thrift store.

The good old CD120!  Only $289.99... 

 I was browsing at a local thrift store this past weekend when I stumbled upon this *thing*. A "Reveal" Internal CD-Rom Drive circa 1992. I held this exact same box (actually, more likely one *just* like it) in my hand more than a few times when I was stationed in Japan between 1989 and 1992.
I owned an Amiga computer, which I bought through the AAFES (Army, Air force Exchange Service on base at Misawa, but I was frequently looking at IBM compatibles. But when a single component was selling for almost half what I paid for my entire computer, well, no thanks!

Of course, by the time the CD120 was out on the shelf my computer was getting long in the tooth.

You can get a fine CD/DVD combo burner for $19.99.

Fifty @ 50; 3/50 - "Exhausted and hungry"

Fifty @ 50; 3/50 - 8/28/15