Recent purchases and potential good news

Well, just blogging to fill you guys in on what I've been up to recently... This mostly consists of some purchases, and some potentially good news - I'll leave the latter until last :)

Recent purchases

• GBA SP - Limited Classic NES edition - Lyss paid for half of this as an early birthday present, and I must say - Nintendo really made a mistake with the first edition... I've rediscovered my love of portable gaming, now that I can actually see the games I'm playing :p This is the basis of my next few purchases.
• Final Fantasy Tactics - Brilliant game - both me and Lyss have it, and I've played it a lot (and thanks to the GBA SP, I've not lost any time I could've been productive with). It reminds me a lot of Shining Force 3... There's a lot more depth to the battles, stats and the like, but a lot less depth to the story and adventure element. Very good though - not a Shining Force 3 (or even 2 I don't think) beater, but certainly worth playing.
• GBA SP headphone adaptor - Nintendo are so damn cheap... Not only do I have to get another GBA to play my games properly (I've sold my old one though mind), but I have to buy a bloody adaptor to use headphones with it! Good thing it only cost £2.50..
• Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island - Classic game, as I'm sure you both already know... Haven't received it yet, but looking forward to playing it at work :) I wasn't aware of this (and I did play Yoshi's Island quite a bit, so it's surprising to me), but did you know that Yoshi's Island is actually a bigger game than Mario World? It always struck me that Mario World was huge, but then I never played it much.... Interesting little fact there for you anyway.
• Airform GBA SP case - Nice little stretchy case thingy that fits snugly around the SP and can fit two extra game cartridges... Cost me about £3.50, also hasn't arrived yet... Looks cool, not really got much to say about this...

Planned purchases

• Sharp Zaurus serial cable - It's a little expensive (£25! rip-off...), but it's quite rare now, and I need it for development... I was a little reluctant to shell out the money at first, but once you hear my potentially good news, you'll see why I no longer mind (Although given that it is only potentially good news, I may be let down). I haven't bought this yet because it's not available - it becomes so on March 17th, hopefully.

If you're wondering where I'm getting all the money for this stuff, I've managed to wrangle myself some extra work (at my place of work, doing odd jobs), so it's all good.

Now, on to the less mundane, and potentially totally awesome news.

Summer work - I may be working on Matchbox/OpenEmbedded stuff as a summer job. PAID to work on what I work on pretty much every day. The reason this is potential and not solid is that it depends on how well the company is doing at the time, but the head of it is a guy who idles in #gpe and I've spoken to him lots and had dealings with him and such - I'm sure he knows I'm a pretty capable guy (or he wouldn't have said that there may be a job kinda thing... I'd hope!) and I love working on OpenEmbedded and GPE and such, so if I got that, that'd be totally awesome.

Totally Awesome.