[Kevin]

I collected on an off since the 1980s. Instead of collecting in my late 20s and early 30s, I spent my $ on wine, women and song. Good, but fleeting times. I wish I invested 5% of the money I wasted from 2000-2014 in cards.

During the pandemic, Peter Schwartz who I know from Islander games, started posting his ticket stubs on Twitter. I had some serious FOMO. I went to my folks house, finally found ticket stubs from the late 70s and 80s Isles glory days, posted a few on twitter. My friend from imaginesports (Steve Brightman) retweeted some and some baseball card collectors liked my pics and started following me. Then I followed them and saw all these great "mail days" that they posted. I then went to my folks house and unearthed my T206 collection. About 140 cards. I reached out to John Goodman, my go to dealer from East Hampton, and bought 4 cards from him. Then...I tweeted a few of mine. @t206podcast liked one of my posts and I was like "There's a podcast??" and I listened to every episode in 2 days. I reached out to Justin and Jay. Justin has been really kind and gracious and he pointed me to net54. Leon allowed me to join the group and I've added about 25 cards or so from here since October.

Monster # 169. Would like to get to 170 tonight. Might check out John's eBay store.

2021 Goals: Napoleon Lajoie T206, break 200 "Monster Number"

Sorry for the flow of this post. I'm by myself with the kids tonight.