August 23rd, 2012:

	Not much happening in the lab at the moment.  I was fortunate to 
find a few goodies while trolling my usual thrift store haunts last 
weekend, but I haven't been fortunate enough to find the time to use them!

	Well, that's not *entirely* true... I picked up a portable USB 
card reader for $2 and tested it to see if it worked.  It read the 8Gb 
micro SD card I bought some time ago, so that's a definite plus.  I was 
originally going to fill it with podcasts so I could listen on my 
Blackberry, but I've since decided to fill it up with old Amiga .MOD 
files.

	Now, I couldn't be bothered to see if there was a mod player 
available for the Blackberry.  Instead, I opted to download the PC app 
Modplug for Windows 2000, and will use that to convert the MODs (and STMs, 
S3Ms, ITs, XMs, etc) to MP3s so I can listen to them on any device.

	I also picked up another GVC 56K external modem (with PSU!), which 
was identical to the one I used on my Amiga 2000 a few years back.  There 
was a caller ID program called El CID for the Amiga, which had a TON of 
options (call drop, caller annoy, etc) and which also supported the GVC 
modem's caller ID feature.  I may install it on one of my Amigas once 
they're fixed.

	I also picked up a couple of serial cables, a couple of 
USB-to-Serial adapters, a USB-to-Parallel Printer cable, and a few other 
things that are largely irrelevant to this story.

(One of the irrelevant things was a desk microphone for a CB radio base 
station.  I have an antenna and now a microphone, now all I need is the CB
radio itself.  Hopefully a nice retro-looking base station comes my way)