This next deal with Jody introduces those silly Canadians into today's mix (we love the Canadians 'round these parts).
Almost forgot to snap a pic again, so all you will see here is a batman card. Trading the caped crusader must mean something fun coming in on the return.
First trade out of the gates from Jeff doesn't look like much, but I will love the return all the same.
This is our fifth deal together and another individual where it feels like we've done more business than we actually have. Great trade partner and quite helpful.
There's a few deals I have to get out the door before I leave the state tomorrow and I've also gotta mark a bunch of stuff recieved. I'm running behind. 😐
Along the way, that guy, the joker, fell out of an envelop from Erik. Fun card.....er......ornament.
Last deal of the day is a quick one with Charles up in Canada. Shouts to my Canadian brothers and sisters. I do a good bit of work across these borders of ours.
It shouldn't surprise you to see the card heading out the door is of the hockey variety. Forgot to snap a photo of the card though.
One quick deal out the door for Billy before I shut shit down for the evening. Only the third deal between Billy and I. It seems like more, but that might just be becase I see his name on the forums or something.
Forgot to snap a photo for this simple deal that I proposed. Nothing too fancy coming back. It will help me climb some charts though. 😉
As I work my way through the next box, I'm wondering if I am doing too much and logging too many sets at once. On the other hand, if not now, when? In any case, if I open a binder that isn't already logged here, I log it here - that seems like a simple enough rule. It's the rest that seems a bit much.
While adding two new players into the PC (database version), I touched, thought about, or otherwise looked in the direction of those football cards above. Shouts to milo.
Well would you look at that. A while back, I made a trade with the lazer after he scored this pin from some garage sale or something. Pretty sure I hooked him up with some pokemon and I got a pin to hang up on my pin blanket that's on the wall directly behind me right now. Good lad that one.
I've barely made a dent in this box because I'm getting so easily distracted, like hey look! More wolverine! For some odd reason, they weren't even logged so I moved up a few spots on the homies charts. Plus some other non-sport and marvel cards to put away.
I enjoy the numbing distraction of it all though. Truth be told. I'd rather hide here.
Here's another deal iniatiated by me. David was kind enough to say yes.
I think this is the first time I've mentioned curry on the blog (boi I loved his dad back in the day). And then you have a brief appearance by buck era dame time, along with a king james cameo.
Speaking of lulu: thank you for bringing fern into our lives. nikkigirl and I shower our love upon him. He heals us back.
Oh, yeah, so David is a great trade partner. Sneaky fun deal.
Well, that's the most database work I've done in any one sitting in years - definitely the most records I've added to this particular database in one sitting, ever. How boring I've grown to become.
Any set that has logan in it, I want it. Might as well start capturing those snapshots now as my baseline.
I've also decided to go combing through tcdb for as many of his cards as I can find.
Let the hunt begin, er, resume.
Minor codebase change today: see the 100 emoji above? Now when a set is completed, we display an emoji instead of the percentage. Wow, so cool.
This code:
tullyelly
- <SetCollector set="1992-wolverine" />
Produces this content:
Iterate.
All that to say, I've now got a decent non-sport box to keep building upon. I've also continued to improve my efficiencies in ways that I could go on and on about. It'd literally bore the shit out of you though.
I had someone stop by and ask for a trade. They had some deadpool......
Before I could counter his offer to snag some more merc with a mouth, I had to rip some wax! It's been awhile since I've actually opened anything. This was a fun start to the morning.
I didn't have any of this set before this - now I'm ready for the deal. 😎
My non-sport and especially marvel cards are kind of a disaster. A bunch of jagged ideas, little follow through. This weekend, we start to chip away at it.
Shouts to Deadpool + Wolverine, we enjoying playing with these fellas 'round these parts.
Today, I got back to the next big box of unorganized cards. There's a bunch of
cleanup to do to free this box up to then have that same box filled with
baskeball cards starting in 2020-21: The
milwaukee bucks Championship
Season.
tullyelly
select set_collector_header_id, snapshot_date, set_slug, set_name, cards_owned, total_cards
from v_set_collector_header_snapshot
where set_collector_header_id = 16
ORDER BY snapshot_date desc;
On the way, I had my little robot friend, cipher, create me a new view to use when I need to get a better sense of the card collection that I have logged in my database (codename: dojo). I then asked them to optimize the app to utilize this new view wherever needed (one example).
That's a good lil' robot.
Iterate.
Before we get into some of the cards I got my hands on today here's a friendly reminder that I like stickers.
I got my hands on some bball stickers last weekend and today, I put one of them on each of the first three giannis boxes I've "completed". The box I'm currently working on emptying? The fourth in this lineage.
I should explain the rules of these boxes at some point. 😎
Besides stickers, I also like binders.
By cleaning up this box I finally am getting around to putting some cards into said binders. A few sets I touched along the way:
tullyelly
select *
from v_set_collector_header_snapshot
where snapshot_date = '2026-06-12'
order by category_tag, set_name;
And oh hey, I used that new view we created today to help me grab some of the data needed to build this chronicle.
And then there was the flotsam.
This entire website was all building up to showing this Welcome Back Kotter set. I think I can finally retire. My work here is done.
You won't shut me up that easily. Here's the jetsam to go along with that flotsam (hint for lulu: Google flotsam & jetsam).