By David G. Firestone
So, over the past few weeks, we’ve had a lot of things going on and in Driver Suit Blog HQ. As a direct result, we’ve had a lot of technical issues, through no fault of our own. The village is replacing the pipes in our neighborhood, and a cable got cut during the work. As a result, the WiFi has been iffy for most of this time, so I haven’t been able to commit to The Driver Suit Blog as much as I would like.
This is not unique to the blog, as I’m also far behind on YouTube material as well. I knew that this could be a problem, but it’s so much worse, and has been so much longer than I could have ever predicted. So, columns will be shorter until this situation has been resolved, whenever that might be.
With that said, this whole fiasco did have one silver lining, I was able to finally finish a project I’ve been working on since January. In January of 2020, before all this COVID horseshit, I purchased a pachislo machine for the purpose of making YouTube videos.
Knowing nothing about these machines, I purchased a 30 pound lot of tokens for use. I didn’t realize that I needed actual Pachislo tokens, not random quarter-sized tokens. I had to purchase 1000 of these tokens, which left me with the 30 pound lot of over 3300 tokens just sitting in my office.
I eventually organized the tokens into categories, which I kept in bags. In January of 2025, I decided to put these tokens into square coin flips, and eventually in pages in binders. With the time freed up with these technical issues, I was finally able to finish this project last week. All of the tokens worth displaying are displayed, and the rest are listed on eBay.
I love how these binders look, and I love how it looks in the display. I’m also happy I’m done with this project. I’m looking forward also to the sewer pipes being replaced, and the street repaved, so my house will stop shaking when they tear up the street.
I’ll figure something out for next week, hopefully, but if nothing surfaces, you’ll know why.
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