Let's close out with a bit of ego. Alter ego. 😏
Here's how I like to imagine you serenading me at the end of every chronicle:
When I was led to you
I knew you were the one for me
I swear the whole world could feel you, MC
“lithuania”; Jun 28, 2026.
Take 2; Day 159, International players.
Take 2; Day 54, Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.
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Take 2; Day 23, Everyone can get it like Obamacare.
Related by #cardattack, #jeff-meff, #nikkigirl, #tcdb, #theabbott, persona: cardattack
Day 86, Avenue Q
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I added a small component after the comments section below to show a 10 day look at tcdb trades and the total cards involved in deals coming across my desk.
Why? Because there are a lot of cards flowing these days and I wanted to see it in chart form. That's why.
Iterate.
This is the longest I've gone between closed releases since the beginning of these chronicles. I've evolved my approach to be more flexible to the ebbs and flows of my overall motivation and whatever pockets of time I can find for this. I'd note that this also coincides with the general improvement of the individual narratives that continue to fork across the site. At some point, I'll put a touch more polish on few things and show just how many different branches of thought flow relatively seamlessly - alas, only so much time in the day.
You'll have to survive in the meantime. I have faith you will.
250 total chronicles as of today.
Point being, here's one small example of three narratives flowing one source of truth......
The first narrative = you right now. At least those of you who read every day. You see the mess. You see me give up. You see me come back to ketchup.
The second narrative is someone coming in fresh and theoretically starting from the first chronicle through today. I finished writing about jeff meff's volleyball tournament this past weekend today, and so for anyone that starts from the beginning, starting tomorrow......this content will always have existed. For those of you who are live, here's the two posts I retro-fitted tonight:
Which brings me to the third narrative, just the Windy City Round-Up tournament itself. Click that link and see it with a hyper focus.
v2.7.43 released.
Before we get into the trades from today (don't forget to check out the new charts below!), I watched nikkigirl use the site yesterday and as soon as she hit the card stuff, she peaced the fuck out - scrolling right past all of it. lol
Who else does that? Anyone? Or just my haterz? 🫠
The first deal of the day is with Colbey, our fourth. Colbey has quite a bit a marvel and I'd love to do way more deals together than we do. Some things are easier said than done tho.
I was pretty bad at grabbing photos today. Heads up, my error rate was higher than my typical baseline.
Hey is that a garbage pail kid? Cool!
🚨Lithuania here🚨
While France is probably my most frequent international trade country, Lithuania is probably my favorite. It's a mix of memorable partners, memorable trades, and memorable players from that general region. Who'd a thunk I'd be pushing 50 sending 165 cards halfway across the globe?
Anytime we have a deal approaching 200 cards, it's gonna be some fun set collector adventures inside the return batch. Plus, I'm almost always guaranteed to get a small subset of international cards that I'd struggle to get anywhere else but Lithuania.
Shouts to Romuald and our first deal together.
We stop back state-side with Zach, another first timer. I continue to be pleasantly surprised how many first timers I come across on my journey. Zach has 368 completed transactions, and here I am for a first.
Ooh! I remembered to snap a photo! Diverse little batch of cards on their way to finding a new home.
Where my French homies at?!?!? Thomas is here to represent.
European NBA centric trades are always appreciated. Not appreciated enough to snag a picture of the cards themselves in this case (lol), but check out this cardboard headed to Paris all the same.
This is my first trade with Thomas, and I think to the city of Paris itself as well.
Sent cards use the sent date; received cards use the received or archived completion date recorded for each trade.
We keep it moving with a trade with James, our seventh. Great name that James has.
It's a bit harder to tell what a Seattle sports fan we have here because I forgot to snap a photo of the cards themselves.
Those supersonics cards are always fun to see. I look forward to their imminent return.
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