Hitting 10,000

Had a bit of a milestone when I was doing my monthly upload to the Cardboard History Gallery, which I do on the first of every month. I hit 10,000 NHL cards scanned, which is roughly what I'm considering halfway. I actually just crossed the 21000 barrier for my collection, but the total includes all hockey- not just the NHL. However, when I post the scans and then move them into their proper folder, I break out the minor Leagues, international and National team releases, which leaves me with the total number of NHL cards scanned. Yes, someday I want to proof out those numbers so that the total is only NHL cards, and keep a separate total for the minor league cards, but I'm not there yet. 

If anyone is wondering, I've scanned 4 International, 307 minor league and 36 National Team cards. 

By the time I had finished the monthly upload, the scanned NHL cards were up to 10,261. 

Eventually, I'm going to have to break it down into subfolders for each season, like I've had to do for the NBA and NASCAR. I know that time is coming soon- probably by this time next year. Once you get to 12-13 thousand images in an album it starts to get really slow and there's actually a size limit- I believe it's 16,000 images- but for now, I'm enjoying seeing how many I have scanned. 

Oh, by the way, if you are wondering, the cards highlighted in blue are the upload that pushed it over 10,000. It happened to be the 1997-98 cards, although it most likely wasn't one of them that was the actual 10 thousandth card scanned. There's really no way to know that, since I wasn't aware that I was going to hit that milestone and didn't keep track of the exact scanning order. 

The Minnesota North Stars hit 100 cards, the Carolina Hurricanes and Columbus Blue Jackets hit 200, while both the Buffalo Sabres and Edmonton Oilers hit 300 cards scanned this month. I really am enjoying seeing the NHL team albums grow...as I've mentioned before, the team sections are my favorite sections on Cardboard History Gallery. 

However, I think my favorite "milestone" this month, may be that I got all 393 hockey cards into their proper album without missing any! When I do the uploads, I have three windows open. One line is the albums for each team, one line for an album called "working" where I put the scans I'm working with, and about half the screen is the Cardboard History Gallery. Normally, I miss a few cards when I am getting the scans to post to the team album- usually near the beginning when there are a lot of scans in the album. Since I created the Cardboard History Gallery in October 2018, this is I think the first time I've done an upload and not missed a single card! Even when I did the NBA section this month I missed two or three cards and had to go back and make a second update to the album. Not for the NHL this month, I got them all right the first time! 

Since I've already finished the NHL section, I can't really screencap that and show it, but here's how it looks with the NASCAR cards, which I will do next:

Of the 393 hockey cards scanned this month, 44 of them were people I had never scanned before...a mix of people who joined my collection in July, like Willie O'Ree, and people who I've had in my collection for years now but just got scanned for the first time.