i aten’t dead

Only sleeping (or depressed, or busy, all very personal things not fit for this blog)
The reason I haven’t been card or paper blogging is because of those things above, and for the simple fact that I haven’t had time to even organize the few cards that I’ve bought. I’ve also been moving (the address, for [...]

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Since I have nothing else to post, here’s someone else’s blog with a few scans of old Doctor Who trading cards.

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To update my last post, I do still have a job; I just have more work than I’d like per day, with more days off. This should increase my blogging eventually.
I have been buying bits and pieces of the 2009 baseball base sets. I finally saw an Upper Deck blaster at Target tonight. I am [...]

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According to this post there indeed is a Craig Counsell card in 2009 Topps! This gives me a reason to buy it!
…except for the fact that I’m waiting on some not so good news, and I think my purchases of 2009 sports cards will be limited to the one pack of ‘09 Topps I bought [...]

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I didn’t realize that it’s been over a month since I’ve updated. Once again, if you’ve mailed me about trades, I’ll get back to you when I can. Unfortunately there are a lot of issues going on at home and with me personally that I don’t feel are appropriate for going over in a ballcard [...]

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My Internet service (and telephone) have been out at home for about a week. I know, from now being able to log in to wordpress.com, people have sent me mails. However, I cannot answer them because the library is blocking the port on my webmail. (“What? This isn’t port 80?! Block! Block!) Since I can’t [...]

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For those of you who read the blog via RSS feed, there is a new section up on the site, the Trade List. These are cards I have that I can and will send out in trades.
Both this and the want list are a work in progress and should be further updated throughout this week.
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Yes, I got an autograph card out of a $1.59 pack at Target. Not only that, I hadn’t intended to buy this pack in the first place but I forgot to take it out of the cart when I checked out. I bought it anyway.

The name sounded familiar. As it turns out, he was playing [...]

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I had to work today. I didn’t do Buy Nothing Day, though, because I had to buy lunch. 6 people + turkey sized for 3 people = no leftovers.
Also due to the surprise relatives, I only managed to get 12 cards uploaded to my postcard wall. This is only about 1/12 of the easily available [...]

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I received a package from White Sox Cards the other day, part of a trade we’ve been working on since March or so. It looks like it’s going to be, um, a bit lopsided, as I received a small white box full of 2007 Upper Deck (too much to list) and a few other things, [...]

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Just a week after saying I didn’t know anyone who played Magic anymore, some of the guys in tech support were playing Magic in the break room today. It was another reminder that, well, it’s not the deck that’s the loser, it’s the player. Looked like not enough mana sources to me…but I was [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, another Twin Cities resident commented on my blog asking if I knew of any remaining sports card shops in the area other than Uncommon Sports Cards in Richfield, which is a store that I like–the only problem is that it’s in Richfield, and I live about 25 miles away. Thus, [...]

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At least, I had a parcel slip in my mailbox today, but the line was ridiculous and I didn’t have time to wait in it. I don’t really want to drive around that much in the brrrr, you know?
I really needed 94-cent stamps, too. ‘Tis the season to nearly hit the 12-card sending limit at [...]

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Unfortunately I have no time to hook it up until probably next weekend. I also have an ear infection. Vertigo, mmmmm.
The only benefit: the local CVS has started to carry postcards, which is great because the local Wal-mart no longer does. (I’ve seen postcards at CVS, but that was in Boston, and my friends and [...]

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I bought three hobby packs of Heritage High Numbers today because I didn’t feel like using a credit card for 70 cents of empty boxes.
One of the packs of cards only had seven cards in it. The wrapper looked untampered with, at least.
Also, Topps has changed the manufacturer of the insert gum and it tastes [...]

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So here I wait all year to see if any card company will make a Seth McClung card that’s not an insert and now I find out it’s a freakin’ SHORT PRINT? Oh, Topps, you fail so, so hard.
(and here I thought I wouldn’t have anything to post about today.)
      

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This is my post for the blog carnival Bat Around over at Sports Card Uncensored.
what type of collector am I?
I don’t really classify myself as a type of collector. I like stuff printed on paper. This blog is about all sorts of stuff printed on flat sheets of paper. However, I like those things to [...]

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If I was going to send things out to you or was planning on digging up things to send out to you, it will be done this weekend. Busybusybusy. Also, out of nice envelopes.
      

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I really like looking at these cards; however, they do seem to get easily damaged. Just by opening the pack. I know I know how to open packs correctly so there must be some other avenue of fail here. I’d like to collect this set, but according to other posts I’ve seen it’s just full [...]

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I was planning on doing this post when I got a scanner, but I’ll go into it a bit now. Are there any teams still selling team sets of postcards? I was thinking about this after seeing Paul’s post about his eBay Mets postcard find; then I was looking at the postcard section at TwinsCards.com [...]

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I don’t really have too much to say about this card, other than I like the picture effect on the 2007 Goudeys more than I do the 2008s, which is why I’ve only bought one pack of the ’08s.
Tulowitzki reminds me of a knight from a Pre-Raphaelite painting in that card. No, I’m not talking [...]

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Bit of a family crisis here, so no time to think about cards. I’m sitting here watching my 1987 World Series DVDs to destress. Joe Magrane reminds me of Todd Wellemeyer, except for the pitching left-handed bit. There were a lot more creative sheet signs back in the 1980s. Also, back then catchers were apparently [...]

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I finally managed to get down to the post office to pick up my mail (3 PaperBackSwap books, 1 BookMooch book, 5 Postcrossing cards, package from Thorzul.)
The postcards are beat to heck, which isn’t so surprising–but that could be blamed on the Finnish postal service. There really is no excuse for how mangled the package [...]

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I see the sell sheets and checklists for ‘09 Topps base are out and I’m only semi-pleased. I really like this design, so that’s a plus. I may end up buying a factory set of this.
The other qualified plus is that there’s a Craig Counsell card in the set. The problem with that is that [...]

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Or, the melding of paper crafts and trading cards. I had a bunch of these sort of links, but lost them.
Here’s a dead webcomic illustrated with cut-up cards.
All You Ever Wanted to Know about ATCs (Artist Trading Cards)–these are the cards you make yourself and trade. A few ballcard bloggers are already doing ATCs, right? [...]

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Let’s take a break from all the ‘93 UD and move just a bit back a few years to another sort of card with pictures on the back. Yes, I’m talking about 1991 Score. Score was my favorite brand of cards because a) it had nice portraits of players on the back; b) it was [...]

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Here’s another one out of my endless supply of ‘93 UD, back from the days of quality and quirky card photography.
Apparently, back in the ’80s, Toronto was attempting to sign Elves as international free agents. They ran into a snag when they discovered this particular Elf was actually born in Washington, but they decided to [...]

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Thorzul received my package, which he has nicely scanned. I’m almost out of the fairy paper, BTW.
The Joy of Fanzines. Why do some sf fans still produce zines instead of (or in addition to) blogging? One fan’s answers are there. (which reminds me, our APA collation is Saturday. I must pub my ish, and soon.)
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Why, yes, I do have a 1993 UD factory set. I had scanned these for general amusement purposes before my scanner died on me. (I went to Best Buy today…and bought a toaster oven. Next paycheck, maybe?)
Here’s the back of a card. The front is your standard Pitcher Throwing a Ball In-Game shot. The back….
Relief [...]

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And welcome to the filler portion of this blog! I was actually planning on making my first Card of the Day a non-sport release, but I need to do some research first (which is mostly consisting of “waiting for my Japanese-fluent friends to get on gtalk”–and they haven’t) so you get this instead.
Embree certainly was [...]

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