Apr 01, 2026: self care

Before I get into the mission of the day, I stopped off at ORIGINALS Mall of Antiques to waste some time while I waited for the shop I actually wanted to be at, to open.

Here's that side quest.

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All of my best friends are going to be at the house on Friday, so I bought a little bit of fun for them and me to play with. LEGO sports is all mine kids. Back off!

In the end, I proved once again that I will buy your crap, $2 at a time......if I have to. In the interest of time however, I'm going to take this pile of junk, set it aside, and use this stack for some future ideas - later. I already augmented the project plan and everything.

Who the fuck are the wisconsin flyers though? Stay tuned in to find out!

I've been meaning to get back to Cardboard Legacy on the hunt for the last card I need to close out the 1989-90 Fleer basketball set, because they have 7 or 8 boxes of baskeball that hold hope for me. The shop owner thought they might have a dozen or so of them if I resumed the chase.

Yuppers, we are chasing the goat to close this set out. Fun!

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Before we go on the chase for mike, I couldn't help but take a detour into the $1 bucks for my true passion project. Let's see where today's haul puts me on the tcdb rankings lists:

• michael redd, ranking: 3rd (225 cards)

Oh, quick detour into creating a divider for redd. As part of a years long project, when the spirit strikes, I reorganize the reorganization - sometimes creating a divider card with tcdb snapshot data drawn on it.

TL;DR: this is the first time I have logged him into my database and he moved from this box, to that box. A better box. Not the final box though. Carry on......

• big dog, ranking: 5th (485 cards)
• malcolm brogdon, ranking: 1st (148 cards)
• bobby portis, ranking: 1st (125 cards)
• joe ingles, ranking: 9th (55 cards)
• krhis middleton, ranking: 2nd (410 cards)
• damian lillard, ranking: 8th (239 cards)

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Oooooh! Binder time. We've almost filled up a whole page of white donte in 2020-21 Donruss Optic. Always extra nice to open a binder to take a look see.

• donte divincenzo, ranking: 2nd (141 cards)

  
  
  

  
  

  Time to dive into 10 boxes and a few thousand cards......as the chase begins.

  
  
  

  

  
  

  Oh! So close. Alas, akeem is not, the dream. Well, he is, it's just in this case, he ain't.

  
  
  

  
  

  How about some last box magic!??!?!?!?
  
  

  Nope. No magic. I bet they had every single jordan from 1989 through 1993 - except, the only one I was chasing today.
  
  

  
  

  As a consolation prize, I grabbed lulu's GOAT: a 2nd year king james.

  • lebron james, ranking: 40th (177 cards)

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  All in all, fun chase. I ripped through a few thousand cards, with no luck, but a lot of pluck. lol
  
  

  I would have given this trip a full 10/10 rating if I had scored what I came for. -0.5 points for the failure to secure his airness. Still, this is probably, pound-for-pound, my favorite LCS in all the land.

  
  
  

  I've got another idea on how to snag the card that brought me here as the chase continues.

  
  
  

  

  
  

  Anywho, while you may have your GOAT, and the

  bride to be definitely has hers, there shall be only one freak. - giannis antetokounmpo, ranking: 1st (983 cards)

Since I didn't win myself a jordan earlier, I headed over to Scheels for some retail therapy.

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I'm glad I did because I added me a pin for my pin blanket. Do I have a pin blanket? Shit, I guess I do.

Plus, I added a blaster I've been looking for since eeeeeeeemma hooked me up with on for xmas. I only rip on the second box. Second box unlocked. Hell of a good deal too. corey was right.

After grabbing a latte, I says to Abe: "Slavery is bad, amirite?!!?"

Quick pitstop to keep that trade machine churning.