A Whole Lotta Nothin'

Not sure why I'm so uninspired lately.

The influx of cardboard continues at a decent pace.  There have been a steady stream of trades every few days or so.  I just sent out four more PWEs, on top of two or three bubble mailers.  And I've taken in several packages of varying sizes in the last couple weeks.

I also got two halves of another major SportLots order in. 

But none of it is really remarkable enough to post about.  No disrespect to the traders - I love what I got - it's just mostly set hits from things I or many others have posted about already.  My big order was a start to the serial numbered base set from 2007 Sweet Spot Classic, and the back end of two huge rookie saturated football sets from the early 2000s. 

I just get tired of doing nothing but loot posts and trades.  They're fine, but there's got to be better ideas to sprinkle in now and then.  Look at how Night Owl can make profound statements, even out of the contents of a PWE...

Another strike against me is that I write posts in the same place that I do phone support for work.  I have my work phone, laptop and all the connecting equipment set up in the computer room hooked to the monitor that also serves my home PC.  I could go over to the card room and use the other monitor and keyboard I have over there, but then I'm contending with the piles of cards on the desk.  There's not quite adequate room for the mouse over there.  But either way, it's more "screen time" on top of a full 8-hour day.  I'm already half bleary eyed at 5 o'clock, so I'm not eager to sit there for another couple hours.

There's another obvious lack of inspiration since there are no live games to watch.  We're still waiting for all the leagues to negotiate salaries, schedules, locations, and COVID precautions to start or continue their seasons.  They're still weeks away.

Expected this

Found this

Since I've still continued to buy and trade cards online, I wasn't really motivated to check the retail aisles since the stores have opened up.  (I'm not sure the Targets & Wal-Marts ever closed).  But I had the chance this past weekend.  Needed a couple things, so I ventured out to Target first, since they generally have a good selection.  What I found was that I hadn't missed a thing.  I don't think the distributor had been there since February.  There were about six or seven factory sets, mostly baseball, and two empty single pack dispenser boxes - and not a single sports card otherwise.  Not in their whole display - which it seemed had been encroached upon another three feet by the Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh section.  I didn't bother to look in Wally World.  I didn't want to spend any more time in there than I had to.  Maybe it's that cards are "non-essentials"?

I've still got nine monster boxes of football to sort through.  While I'm on phone duty, I'll turn around and sort out some of my dupes, so I've put most of my extra stuff in order.  That makes it nice to pull trade bait, but doesn't lend itself to good posts.  I've got one more post's worth on the baseball hoard, and then I might put up some giveaways, because it seems that's the trendy thing to do.  And I've got a lot of offbeat stuff to give away.

But in the meantime, I'll just have to muddle through my work duties, the negative energy from the pandemic and social protests, and the waiting game for sports, shops, and shows to open up again.

So don't worry, I'm not going away. I just might be going to bed early tonight.