I found it!

[WispFollower]

I decided to get my Intellivision 2 out of the closet today. I have my intv 1 hooked up to my main command center in my bedroom, but it acts weird on my newer 40 inch samsung lcd (after buying a new cable and adapter, I think I need a signal booster). In the other room, I have my samsung 32 inch LCD which worked fine with intv last time I tried it. I got the intv 2 out and dusted it and the tv off. I didn't want to face the cord jungle in attempting to remove the intv 1 from it's sacred temple while replacing it with a bag of sand so my tv doesn't fall on me or something.

 

After going through all that, I realized I had no clue where the power supply was.. Do you know what this means? It means that this damn thing doesn't work at all!!

 

Ok, I realize I've gone too far with the movie references, and I'm stopping now.

 

I started tearing the place apart to find the power supply. I took a break to look online and see if any substitutions can be safely used or if a replacement (first party is all I want after reading horror stories) could be purchased. The prognosis is not good.

 

I went back to an all out search. I have a problem involving losing things. I will search until something is found, or until I have skipped too many meals and hours of sleep and to have anything but a detached view of reality and perceived existence. At this point, my search transforms into a spirit quest where part of my mind wonders why I put myself through such an ordeal. Many philosophical quandaries later, I find myself wondering why we exist at all (of course I always remember it is to be entertained, mainly by video games).

 

Soon after, I finally get some sleep and move to the next phase: dreaming about the item I so desperately want to find. I dream of remembering a lost box of odds n ends, inside which is the buried treasure I have spent so much time and energy seeking!

 

Usually, at this point, I begin to wake up. The feeling returns to my numbed mind, body, and soul. I am treated to the usual experience of falling asleep and waking up- Strange noises and flashes of color burst in my senses like cosmic fireworks of untold brilliance. I blink my eyes, and my nervous system and consciousness reboot with a shock- I am still physically moving around.. Searching everywhere. I realize the truth.. sleep was an illusion created by a relentless partition in my brain which could not be convinced to call off the original search. My mind recoils in horror, and a temporary out of body experience ensues during which different parts of my consciousness sign peace treaties and promise not to lie to each other anymore.

 

The end of a long day finally comes. All the mead has been swilled, and all the songs of victory have died down. I can finally lay my aching head and body down to rest, hoping I will get some real sleep this time.

 

Sorry for the long post, and thanks for reading if you made it through. My question to everyone is: do you have any stories of triumph involving losing or forgetting about things which are eventually gloriously regained/mysteriously lost forever?

[oldjd]

Entertaining story.

I figure if I cant find something,to hell with it,it wasnt that important in the first place

[Chuck D. Head]

Hmmm, Intellivision fan fiction. You just described every day for me; always losing something and finding it somewhere I have already looked twice. My wife thinks it's funny when I bumble around Mr Magoo style looking for something, not smart enough to ask her if she knows where it is.

[WispFollower]

Hmmm, Intellivision fan fiction. You just described every day for me; always losing something and finding it somewhere I have already looked twice. My wife thinks it's funny when I bumble around Mr Magoo style looking for something, not smart enough to ask her if she knows where it is.

 

If only it was fiction..if only it was...

It made me laugh when you said I described every day for you. It's funny, my girlfriend will surprise me by knowing where something is which I absolutely can not find. How do they do that?

[sega_SHARK]

I was helping the neighbors extend the concrete patio over where the sandbox used to be. While leveling out the sand with a metal rake, I found some of my old Star Wars figures. Snaggletooth and Death Star Droid.

 

 

 

score!

[WispFollower]

Wow, that is quite the find. How did they look?

[sega_SHARK]

Like they had been buried in a sandbox for ten years. XD

[WispFollower]

Sometimes exhausting searches turn up lost gems from previous defeats. I don't need to use a ten year old Creative Nomad charger for my Darth Vader psp anymore.. Found the original charge cable when I was looking for the intv 2 power supply. Double score!