Playing catchup and actually catching up! Err, not quite!

I realized something a few days ago that was really kind of a surprise...I'm actually mostly catching up with scanning my new additions in 2018. That has not happened since 2012! Starting in 2013, I began setting aside everything that was already done on the Trading Card Database, and only scanning stuff that needed scans for there, or needed for a blog post once I started Cardboard History in 2014. But basically, by the second week of January every year, I've already been setting cards aside to do later.

But, in December, I actually finished getting everything I needed to post onto the Database. Then, I essentially took January, February and March off from scanning, using that time to catch up on various Excel projects that I had been putting off in some instances for years. Sure, I did do some scanning, like when my COMC order came in and a little bit of just regular scanning.

I realized last week that I had scanned most everything that had come into my collection in 2018...and so I set about doing that. It meant doing a big batch of Revolution cards from that case I got. But I knocked them out in 2 hours. In fact, I had gotten caught up and was in the process of editing the last wave of scans to be actually caught up...then my brother checked the PO box...

I got a box from SumoMenkoMan, and a box from Corky, and a box from a Trading Card Database member which is not shown, but was a factory sealed box! (1994 Star Hooters) There's a lot of good stuff here, but it's going to be a little while before I can get these all processed...and properly posted about. The box from Ryan is mostly early 80s hockey but some 70s hockey as well...the team bags from Corky are a mix of things...showing is my first blue parallel from 2013-14 Prizm hockey, my first numbered WNBA card, the Captain America punching out Hitler card that got the ball rolling on this box, some WJT hockey cards in a language I can't ID, and two numbered NHL rookies.

It's going to take me even longer than normal because I am busy working on models, which means I can't enter them into my paper listings yet...I use the same table. I finished a model yesterday...

 and finished another today, but too late to take photos. I have a third in progress that's nearly done, which will be my 300th model built in my career. Right now, that takes precedence. It's so rare for me to be able to build- my skills left me mysteriously in 2010, and returned just as mysteriously this year- that I'm going to keep on building for as long as I can!

These are good "problems" to have! The time is coming soon where I have to put the models away for the summer- I can't work when it gets too hot- but it's not here yet. I should be able to finish more before then, I hope!