My first board has arrived!!

I received a confirmation e-mail from BatchPCB, on the 27th of September, alerting me that the board has shipped.  It then arrived today, the 30th.  It only took 19 days to receive the board!  Not bad for $25.86.  I was surprised to find that although I ordered only one board, they sent me two!!  I had actually wanted two but was broke at the time I placed the order.  An additional board would have cost $14.98 (dependent upon area of board).  Maybe I just overlooked that fact when reading through the site.... a mystery....

Board front and back

After about 15 minutes of searching around for the components I had on hand and another 15 minutes of actual soldering, I have a mostly populated board!  (It took longer to take these snazzy pictures)

Mostly Populated Board

I was lazy (mostly broke) and have not yet ordered the finishing parts; joystick and power plug from SparkFun, and the PIC microchip... probably from DigiKey.  I left the crystal out for now because it is close to the surface mount PIC and I didn't want to make soldering harder than it needs to be.  I'll try to get those ordered in the next week.  I really hope this works...