Pack stack slack attack

I finally got myself motivated and worked on scanning a bunch of the unopened packs I had ahead of me...some of them have been waiting since 2017 now. I had built up the stash (almost all of which came from Angus and SumoMenkoMan!) for my 2018 Card of the Day project, but that got me burned out on the hobby, which lasted for most of 2019, and is just showing signs of abating now...finally. Almost a year I was just "going through the motions" but I'm feeling excitement and wonder again, the essential feelings for the hobby to be fun.

While I was working on some other stuff, I determined I couldn't put off the hockey packs that Ryan had sent me sometime earlier this year...I don't even remember exactly when. I wrote about them in September but they were in my possession long before then, and they weren't the first box of packs he'd sent me this year.

I'm sure these need to be scanned...or did when I put them in the box. The majority of them are from Ryan, but a couple I got myself made it into the box- note the Panini stickers, and I see a Bigfoot pack in there as well. You can tell how burned out the Card of the Day project made me because I have not opened that 1996 Olympicards pack yet! They are actually still in the box Ryan sent them to me in, believe it or not!

This box, which mostly came to me from Angus and also has stuff I got locally, I THINK is already scanned, but I'm not 100% sure. It has been sitting so long I can't remember, so you know what that means....I have to go through each and every one and check out the pack section on Cardboard History Gallery to see if they are there or not. (It turned out that most were NOT scanned yet!)

And those are just the ones I can get easy access to. There's more. And that's not even counting the two boxes I've already scanned, one of which is shown in the linked post from September.

Some of the sets are technically not in my collection yet, because, while I have packs of them and have for a while now, I have not gotten any of the individual cards into my collection...to me it counts when I look at the card, not when the pack comes to me.

This one, for example, is not yet in my collection as of writing this...perhaps, by time I actually post it, it will be. I have a queue of posts waiting for publication- another sign that the burnout is passing- and I don't know when I will get this one posted. I wrote this paragraph at 5:55 AM on 11/25/2019. Of course, I could simply open the pack and make it part of my collection, but, I want to finish scanning them all before I start opening any.

Some of them will surely make it into 2020 before they get opened...which, I guess from a certain point of view, means it took me 2 decades to open them...


The sad thing is, the scanning process is quick. For example, all 20 packs shown in the September post took only about 45 minutes to dust, scan, edit and label. I should be able to get them all done within one day. Why the heck did I wait so long???
And update: I got them all scanned, edited, and labeled by noon that day. And I took time out to try and clean some of the packs and have a meal. I ended up with 228 scans made.

Now that I've gotten all the stuff in the queue posted, stay tuned because something very exciting (to me) is coming next...and it's not another update on the Cardboard History Gallery, which I can tell by the lack of views and comments that nobody really cares about, LOL.