Unexpected mail days are the best mail days!

 With the wrist injury I've been dealing with for 2+ years now I haven't been trading so mail days are pretty few and far between. I wasn't expecting anything beyond the few actual print magazines I am subscribed to. 

So it was quite a surprise when I got a letter from a name I recognized from the card hobby. An even bigger surprise awaited me when I opened it! 

Why, that is my #1 most wanted card!! 

I have been working on this set since it was issued in 1994 and they have been surprisingly difficult to hunt down. When I started keeping my Top 10 most wanted cards list, the last three cards I needed were all in the top 10. I got the other two but Jimbo eluded me. The last time I looked there was not a single copy available on either COMC or eBay! For only a 40 card set completion has been difficult, but now it's completed! 

Thank you so much Kurt!!

Fun fact: the card is a UER. Laura's hair should be brown. 

New People February 2025

 2025 started strong in January, but I gave myself a bit of burnout and didn't do anywhere NEAR the same amount in February, Whereas January saw me scan over 2000 cards, I only scanned 221 in February, and didn't really enjoy doing them...mostly working on them when it was too cold to work on models. It's too cold to spray paint outside now, so I'm doing a lot of prep work. 

Of the 221 cards scanned, 13 of them were new people, and 6 of them were people I got a card of at the card show specifically because I didn't have a card of them...it turns out I didn't have any of Ilya Zubov but I didn't know that until I did the monthly update of what is in my collection. 

On that topic, here are the people I didn't have before this last month.

15 new people. 

It wasn't much but anything that gets accomplished is a good thing.