the gypsy rig

The impending garage sale is tomorrow… The house looks like we just moved in.. Boxes and crap everywhere.

Yesterday was XboxLIVE night… Thin crowd… sinnabor and bleepkeeper. The only game we’re good at, Mech, they don’t like to play – but hey – interactive fun is interactive fun weather your kickin’ ass or the ass kick-ee.

While I was on the road yesterday, I popped into my the local Radio-Smack and picked up a bag of adapters. In order to broadcast com chatter to speakers so everyone can hear, (and if you don’t want to screw with soddering connections) –

• 274-0948 – Micro Stereo Plug Splitter
• 274-0373 – Micro to Mini Stereo Plug Adapter
• 274-0871 – Mini-Stereo to RCA Splitter
• 274-0883 – RCA Plug to Mini Plug Adapter

*this set up is for use with amplified computer speakers with a 1/8″ (Mini) stereo jack.

total cost – $21.48

Few and far between are ye who know I worked there for five years through high school and the first part of college.

I used to be embarrassed about my tenure at the texas-based, leather goods trader turned gizmo peddler. I mean,… come on.. It’s fucking Radio Shack. How geeky is that?

But when you consider the occupation options for 16 year olds. A smidge over minimum wage plus a modest commission was a great job. Sure I had to wear a necktie and dressy clothes, (the perfect opportunity to flex my then tragic late-80′s sense of fashion… ChessKing anyone? Anyone?)…. Sure I had to pass out battery-club cards… But it was all worthwhile when I’d land that sale of “the new HANDHELD cellular phone! Only $1400 and just a little bigger than a brick!”.

There’s an odd place for Radio Shack in our contemporary consumer culture. Still to this day, (although it seems less so) – if you have an odd connection puzzle, rest assured you can stop in and get expert advice from guys who need to get a girlfriend.

I too was one of these advice dispensing, diagram drawing, geeks… (Except I didn’t “want” a girlfriend).

Sales experience, above all I think, is really the best thing a young person can get. Regardless of your life path, (at least in our culture), “Sales” touches everything you do…

Even a fancy-schmansy blog is really a form of sales.. If I had a blog, I’d be in-theory selling you on the concept, (the package) which I would portray as my life and thoughts.

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