Saturday, September 05, 2020

Found On The Side Of A Transwarp Conduit


Well, the ol' Borg cube has almost crashed and burned, but is still sputtering along at half impulse power.  Between the beginning of the school year adding volume and chaos to my job, and the pandemic allowing me to flex my schedule to avoid crowding the office (and waking up early), as well as the start of football (and subsequently fantasy) season, plus playoff 8-ball tournaments out of town (and 9-ball in the same place next weekend), my blogging time and energy have been diverted in several directions.  

My average is 11 posts a month - roughly three times a week - but August got only 5.  But a sudden positive development ~ many of those posts have triple digit readership.  Not sure if that's a result of recent Twitter promotion for my post on Covid-ized classic cards, or just bots branching out into other words besides "cardboard".  If it is Twitter, thanks to Fuji and any of the rest of you for spreading the word!

I have been very active on a couple different buying sites, though.  I'm awaiting a SportLots order that is just over 300 cards.  That was a binge to beat all binges.  I started with some cheap football and found a seller that had a ton of my want list hits for 25- and 50¢ each, and it just snowballed.  I came into some cash a little while ago, so I turned off any restraint I had this time.

I also have been perusing eBay as well, usually loading up a cartful from a seller that has a few things I'm looking for and then another bunch of singles for a buck a shot - then I end up comparing prices on Sportlots and finding a lot of them cheaper so I only end up with about ¼ of what I started with on the 'Bay.  I did find a bargain and used a rare eBay coupon to knock the price down another 30% on a non-sport set I've been making offers on that go unanswered.

Enough talk,  Here are some quick previews of what I have incoming.  These are just samples of the big batches that are inbound.

 


5 comments:

  1. The Star Trek cards are interesting, though I don't know much about the show. So I'm voting for the Franchise Brady.

    I don't do Blogger Twitter. So I'm not following you from there.

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  2. I never saw the original Star Trek episode with the "Mysterious Cube". Is that the first sighting of the Borg?

    Glad to hear your readership numbers increased. I doubt my tweet had anything to do with it though, since I don't have much of a following. That being said... your Covid creations were awesome!

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  3. I was thinking that the Marino rainbow was going to be the star of the post, then I saw a whole mess of '76 Star Trek, and to go back and change my initial thought.

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  4. Love those Star Trek cards! It's time to adapt, regenerate, and resume pursuit of the blog.

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  5. Nice Star Trek cards...remember the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few....

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