Peter: What is this "getting laid" of which you speak?
Ten years ago I was living in Honolulu, just retired from a career as a Land Surveyor. I had been into "vintage" card collecting about three or four years by that point but it mostly was the fifties Topps cards I collected as a kid. I was just starting to work back in time by assembling thirties and forties sets such as '33 & '34 Goudey, '41 Play Ball, and Sports Kings. Eventually I would venture back to the good stuff, tobacco cards, M116s, Zeenuts, T210s and the like, but ten years ago it was still very esoteric territory for me. Did almost all my acquiring via eBay back when they hadn't yet forked up the business model. Made my first post on Net54 in October of 2003, went to my first card show, the Anaheim National in 2006, have grown a pretty decent collection over the years and made a lot of good friends. It's a great hobby in spite of all the douchebaggery and just the thing in which to happily while away my dotage.
