planning ahead for a sick day that finally came

 It's no secret that my health is not that great, that I've got a compromised immune system. It's more a question of "when" rather than "if" I will get sick, but I had been on a pretty good streak of not getting sick, the last time was in either 2018 or 2019. Note that I'm speaking of that in the past tense. Yes, I woke up yesterday with a sore throat and now I'm definitely sick...although hopefully it won't last too long. My brother woke up sick on Christmas morning and I guess I didn't stay far enough away from him. I'm not in as bad a shape as he was in so hopefully it stays that way and this doesn't stick around too long.

But I planned for this...I knew this would happen eventually. And, I also knew that sickness equals complete and utter boredom, since I won't touch any of my cards or model stuff while I am sick. I used to not really worry about that...when my friend sent me over 2000 hockey cards back in 2015 I was very sick that day/week I was going through them, and now every time I handle one of them, I can't help but wonder if I am going to give myself germs as a "gift" from, holy crap, how is that 7 years ago already? So I decided a couple years ago I would not touch any hobby stuff, just my mouse and keyboard which can be cleaned. 

I really hate doing the foil and Finest style card scans. I know they need to be done, if I want to have my entire collection scanned uniformly, but they aren't fun in the least and they take a long time. When my brother got me my "new" scanner a couple years ago, I scanned all the foil and Finest cards I could lay my hands on at that time, which was a lot- probably close to 1000. I've worked on them on and off since then, mostly when I was really down and needed to focus on something to get my mind off my mind, if that makes sense. 

I still have 268 pages to do, although that does include the backs as well, which in most cases are normal card stock. 

Here's just a sample of what I have ahead of me. 

Now, I know realistically I will not complete these all this time I'm sick...I'll work on them for a while, but honestly, I'll probably get frustrated and go do something else...even if that something else is just playing Angry Birds , I really enjoy doing this so little that I tend to wander. Heck, writing this post is partially just to put off starting to work on them! 

So it occurred to me to figure out how many cards I have ahead of me to do. Oh joy.

I really want to write about what I got for Christmas, but I don't think I will get them all scanned in time for the end of this year...I did exceptionally well and pulled a 1/1! I will show it as soon as I can. 

My annual Year in Review will also be delayed until sometime in January, whenever I can get what I need scanned for the post. None of that will happen until I am better...I should still get my annual "In Memoriam" post up on the 31st. That's the least fun post to write but I feel I need to do it. I will wait and write it on the 31st and that will cap off the year for me. I'd like to think I won't need to add anybody to it over the next three days but I know to wait, since twice in that series history it's been published before people died that should have been on it. 

OK, I can't put off the editing any more, time to go start working on it.