Heh, so the coolest thing just took place. I'm getting paid to build my arcade cabinet!! So my old boss at the Walker, Steve (who got laid off in May), is doing this exhibit at Carleton College, and the theme I guess is gaming. So he asks me if I'll put my arcade cabinet in the show. I of course tell him that it's not done and I don't have the money to build it all, so I can't do it.

Then he says, well write up a proposal, and put down what it would cost to build it and I'll see what I can do. So I write it up, and figure it'll cost $1700 when it's all said and done (minus artwork). So I get email from him today saying it's a done deal, Carleton is going to front the bill for me to build it for the show in Nov!!

This is still a bit mind boggling to me. First of all, what is an arcade cab doing in an art show? And why would any college want to pay *me* to build what I was going to do anyway? Haha, I don't even care, this is too cool!

Of course it'll be a lot of work. I have less than two months, and I haven't been cut a check quite yet. They also do the thing of, pay some money now, pay the rest on delivery. So I won't get it all right away. But it's really nice because I can make mistakes on this and it's not a huge deal. The most expensive parts of the cab are the controls, monitor and computer. Those shouldn't change regardless of what cab type I build. I can always rebuild the cabinet if I feel like it, don't like it, or make mistakes.

I'm pretty hyped. Now I just have to get my ass in gear and start building. I got my work cut out for me, that's for sure.