That was much longer of a delay than I anticipated, but I was finally able to coordinate with my dad and get everything soldered to the PCB.  Why my dad you might ask?  His soldering skills far eclipse mine and I didn't want bad solders to be a factor when I plug the board in - you see I'm afraid it won't work initially, most likely some step I will have missed when translating my bread board wiring to the diptrace schematic..I tried to be thorough.. but this is my first time and all.

The next step will be to wire up the DB9 joystick connector, RS232 output (serial output), and the power.. then we'll see what happens!  I'm planning to get to that tonight.  Man I'm excited!  But, I have to get back to my day job now - so I'll leave it at that.  Below you can see pics of the final solder job!

Here we are getting started...

Here's the bottom - all finished!

And here's the top!  A thing of beauty, he's such a stud!