Going for the gold

For reasons that have already been discussed, and for others that haven't, purchases, especially those of the card variety, have become much less frequent.

I still have two PWE's that were generously sent my way to get to, but for the most part, at least as far as cards go, I've pretty much just been relying on my weekly COMC Shuffle posts for "new" card content.

Lack of new items has made the want to blog a little more difficult. The continuing downward trend for the blogs in general hasn't helped either, it's still hard for me to believe that Twitter is so darn popular, especially with bloggers/former bloggers. I've been on there for about two years now, and I'm still not sold on it, and I certainly couldn't imagine myself ever abandoning this blog in favor of that site.

With the lack of new stuff coming in, I might have to start looking to things that are already in my possession for blog material, and maybe finally start putting some serious effort into getting the storytelling series that I've wanted to do for years now going.

With all of that being said, I did recently make one small purchase, it came exactly one month to the day after the Ernie Banks auto, albeit quite a bit less exciting than said auto.

For a whopping dollar (+ $0.75 for shipping) I was able to add yet another 2018 Classics Eric Dickerson gold Optichrome (that's Panini slang for refractor) to the collection.

I've already spoken about my love for this set, and this card, ad nauseam, so I won't bore you by rehashing any of that. I will say though, that now even after the passing of a full year has passed since the sets release, I still get warm and squishy feelings when thinking about the Legends parallels.

With this latest addition, I am now 2/3 of the way towards my goal of getting a full page of this card, although given the opportunity, I probably wouldn't stop at just one page, but being numbered to /65, I should probably just be focusing on the one-page goal, and be happy with it's completion... provided of course that the goal is able to actually be completed.


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