quick roundup

Gonna try to get a flurry of posts published here by the end of the year, with the hopes of catching 2024's post count of 36-- which narrowly bested 2023's 35 posts-- trying to keep the blog trending in a positive direction. I'm currently up to 27 for the year as I draft this, so that's a goal of, what, 10 posts in 20 days? Hmm. Might be tough, but I'll give it a shot and hopefully at least get into the 30s. But yeah, I might seem a little more rushed than usual for these next few posts.

For now, just catching up on some non-purchased incoming cards, as I like to document on here. First up's the page's worth of cards I got randomized from Johnny's giveaway last month: 

Fun lot of cards. Mike Trout's still a big PC guy for me, and the '75 Kellogg's is a set need. Love the Clyde Drexler, and all the baseball oddballs are appreciated too.

Thanks a lot for your generosity, John!

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I'll bet you can guess who sent me this pair. Yep, it was a micro-zapping from Japan. Great looking 2011 J.A. Happ atomic refractor and the cat is cute too.

Thanks as always, Zippy!

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I don't always bother to post about my sporadic TCDB trades on the blog, but it's been a quiet few weeks, so why not show off this quick return from user ILLRIMESAYA. Maybe I'm jumping the gun, because he has yet to update the transaction to received, and it'd be crap luck if my end got lost in the mail and I have to send these cards back or someshit. But yeah, fingers crossed the Ginter X mini he asked for in return arrives shortly.

I've been going nuts for refractor reprints lately. I've been snatching up a bunch and damn near flooding my TCDB wantlist with 'em, hence the Hank Bauer. And happy to score the xfractor of Gavin Sheet's first card as a Padre, having thrown all its parallels into my wantlist. I don't expect to do the same for every Gavin Sheets card with San Diego going forward, but that "first ever Padres card of a Gavin" is kinda special, I guess. But I've been doing some other modern rainbowing lately (post coming soon), and I prefer keeping my hobby focus pre-Fanatics as much as possible because everything was better before and it's only going to get worse, right?

Anyways, thanks for stopping by.