My first card of 2019 is...Me!

And that can only mean one thing...my shipment of Trading Card Database cards has arrived from C2Cigars, a.k.a. Chuck!

But this year, it was more than one base card design...

 There's an insert from the time I met Chuck in person at the Hemmings Concours D'Elegance in 2017, and...

a T-Shirt insert! The latter two pictures were both taken by my brother, so now all three of us have had a photo printed on a card- my mom took the photo of me on the self-published, Gavin printed custom I had made up and in the Rangers shirt, and I took my own photo of myself in last year's C2 set.

But that's not all...

I also have an autographed card in the set! Back in late November or early December, Chuck had sent me some copies of the card to sign, which I did, in silver Sharpie. What I didn't realize is that I am the ONLY autograph in the set! I figured it was a full parallel, but nope. Apparently it's because I was the reigning Member of the Year, an award that still kind of floors me- I voted for Vrooomed, aka Dan, who will probably be the second Database member I meet in person- he lives literally two towns away from me.

Although #1 was not the nicest looking autograph I signed- the Ls in my first name are two close together, with the second one being too small- Chuck gave me the option and I had to take #1.

Quite a few of the Database regulars got cards as well, and all have been added to my wantlist.

What a cool way to start the year! I also received my first trade of 2019 that day but I'll save that for later...now that I'm done with the Card of the Day project I will go back to posting monthly trade updates instead of working them into those posts.