100th Post Giveaway Contest! Free NBA cards! (and an anniversary message)

This is my 100th post on Cardboard History. I'm not even at the 1 year mark yet so that is a victory to me. I have some issues with follow through so to have been able to keep it going this long, I kind of surprised myself. And I have so many more things I want to post, so I should be able to keep this going for a decade or more. (Hopefully!)

Since it is my 100th post, let's do a small giveaway. Comment on this post for a chance to win a small padded mailer full of NBA cards, taken from my duplicate stash that's not yet posted onto my tradelist on the Database. Will be a mixture of things ranging in age from early 1990s to 2014-15.

Simply comment to enter. I will use random.org to pick the winner's number and I will let that winner know so they can get me their address. You have until Thursday night to enter. I can only mail on Saturdays since our Jeep is essentially dead, have to borrow a car to get to the post office. Open to all- I will ship internationally - and following the blog is not necessary but would be appreciated. 

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And now, the anniversary. I realized today that this past Sunday, my birthday, was the 10 year anniversary of when my brother gave me my first scanner! That was the best one I ever had, but my new computer does not recognize it. I can still use it, but it involves getting my old computer out, which barely works at all. I basically save it for when I  have to scan slides and negatives, which  neither of my other two scanners can do.
The very first thing I scanned with my first scanner was in fact a card...however, I had it too close to the edge and cut part of it off.
This was the very first scan I ever made-

You can see how I cut the point off the card. I had to rescan it, shown below. The second version of the scan had it's colors overadjusted. I hadn't quite gotten it perfect yet when I did the majority of my NASCAR collection.

The reason this became Scan #1? It was simply on top of the pile of cards that I had just gotten recently...possibly earlier that day, I no longer remember, and don't feel like getting my collection book out to check (lol). I have no idea how many scans I've made since then...I know by time my first computer (mostly) died it was over 20,000 and I have not slowed down over the past two computers...I average about 15-25 a day!