Not Dead Yet!

Hiya folks! 2020's been an off year for me and 2021 doesn't look to be any better. That said, I'm still here and still collecting cards even though we're still in the middle of what can only be described as half-end times. So the first thing was President Trump passed a stimulus to qalifying residents of the USA and territories(not many knew that). Many went out and bought a bigger tv while others attempted to bank pile it only to discover that they couldn't or their branch went under, etc... I bought a 3d printer and some fillament while waiting for the price of diesel to drop(and it did for awhile). I bought the EasyThreed X1 for $100 off Amazon and two rolls of fillament for $50. What does a 3d printer have to do with this blog? Well for a time I was tossing back and forth how I was going to go about storing the cards that are in the collection in a way where they wouldn't get damaged. Now, the print bed on the X1 is 100x100x100mm which is fine for what I need it for, so I opened up Sketchup, put together a card box, put some pins in it, a top rail, and split it up before sending it to Blender to convert to STL before sending it to the printer's software that uses gcode. It's alot simpler when you do it a few times.

Below is a pic of the X1, and the front part of the card box i printed. If anyone has a 3d printer and wants the STL files to make your own, message me and I'll send them along as they'll work with other types of cards not just Baseball.

Cards List Updated

Somewhere in the early stages of this blog I thought it was a good idea to list the card sets and strike them off as I have them. Not only has that process become tedius, it's made me want to not list the card period and go back to bed. Well, I changed it around so the cards page lists what's needed to finish off the sets. Don't have to mess with images, or tables, or fancy do-hickeys... simple text. K.I.S.S on that note, I've listed what at the current moment is missing from the 1988 Topps set. I have more here to go through starting tomorrow and even then unfoil(yes I had an idea to protect cards with tin foil, only then realizing they look like coke bricks then baseball cards >.<) the mountain dew-sized box of '88 Topps. Every year I'm asked what I want for Christmas and I tell em the same thing: Baseball Cards. It's the point of this blog - complete the sets. Doubles aren't doubles, just sets not completed yet. Blogs like this one need to be around for this very reason.

Happy Yule everyone, Matt

Closing out 2019

So it's become that wondrous time of the year again - yes it's getting close to ending 2019 and welcoming 2020 as a new year of hope. This blog's always on my mind even as I'm working through other projects(like the webcomic that started up in August). That said, I've purged the youtube and twitch vids. It was an idea, plain and simple, and since it didn't go over as well as I'd hoped, there's no reason to keep them around any longer. I've also returned the site back to its previous layout - someone messaged me over Gmail and asked what anime and baseball had to do in common, and it struck me that maybe I'm putting too much 'me' into here. I think it all went along the lines of trying to improve what I saw as an already good thing(again was wrong so that's 2 for 2). I was also noted by a Google rep that they plan to keep Blogger around for as long as it's being used, which further led me to research some things and confirmed what I thought: Blogger makes more money than YouTube(then again at this point, even yahoo makes more money than YouTube so...). I'm also now set up east of Kingman, AZ for those that follow what goes on in my personal life. So what does this mean for The Card Collector? This means since I only really have three projects on my plate, I can dive back into this. Not once did I ever think of giving it up, putting it on the back burner, or want to do something precarious to it - so that's something. That said, the project still runs off donations and I'm always still accepting cards no matter what they are or their condition. I think if I do what I do here, everything else will take care of itself. Merry Christmas everyone, Matt ^_^

Happy 2019 Everyone!

Yes it's belated, didn't have net for most of December and part of January. I still have a very optimistic outlook for 2019 and that keeps me going. Speaking of, I was given 60 packs of cards ranging in years from 1989 to 1992 for Christmas and a Samsung Tab A and I have a database program on there that sorts everything and spits out as a spreadsheet so i'm very excited to see how much of the collection I can cram into the program before it yells at me that there's no more room :D I might actually get the collection sorted this year which would be nice since I've been dragging my feet on it since I got that major box of cards a few years ago. For those curious or are happy, the YouTube series I was trying to push is done. It didn't do what it was suppose to do and that was to bring people here, so my next thought is to try to get the site in the top slot on search results. See if that does anything. Spreadsheet: Link Here's to a new year, Matt

Updated the wants list and we're sitting at 1,657 cards processed. There's still a giant box, a regular card box, and two large flat rate boxes to go through plus some scattered about in a box. Almost to the end of counting lol. -Matt

Business Cards

     Evening everyone, short post that i'd like to share. Since Google made some changes to how blogs are found and gave SEO the boot, I've had to come up with more creative ways of getting folks here. Only thing that i've come up with thus far are business cards with the card collector logo on the front that also lists the site so I'm putting it out there that those that help to pitch in to cover the cost of the cards will receive one of the cards for yourself plus some extras to hand out or put wherever.

     I was thinking of going with Vista Print to handle this task as the quality of their cards is really good, and 100 cards would cost $20(s/h incl). This would also allow me to go out locally and hand people something tangible for either giving me their cards or for collecting info, etc.. this past year alot of people near me were selling cards for whatever they could get for em and it would've been nice to have handed them one of these cards and talk with them about the blog and work out deals and the like.

     The way i'd like to handle this is through Paypal, that way the image can be set on the card correctly and format it correctly, etc.. so I'll ask those that are interested to visit paypal.me/logansryche, fill in the amount(min is $1), and then message me on here so I know who it came from so I can get those cards to you. If somehow I find the cash to do this on my own, then it'll be what it is.

Thanks everyone,
Matt

Wants Page

Afternoon everyone, the wants page is back and is full! It will continue to grow as I finish up the rest of these cards. We're sitting at just over 1500 cards total in the collection(1539 to be exact) including doubles, tripples, etc... Remember if you have cards or know of someone who has cards no one wants or is going to throw away, please get in contact with me and send em my way. I'd rather have them in the collection then at the bottom of the garbage can. Take care, Matt