Another New Year's goal is complete, and boy am I a glutton for punishment

I'm closing in on 7 full years of blogging, and most of that has been spent accumulating Blue Jays.  Lots of them.  It's kind of slowed down in recent months, but for the longest time I was getting the cards in, noting them in a spreadsheet, and putting them in boxes.

No order whatsoever.   What a mistake.

As the spreadsheet grew and grew, and the collection passed the 6000 card mark, I started realizing a few things.

• I couldn't find any particular card quickly.  With multiple boxes of cards (one of them a 5 row monster), hunting became a chore
• I started finding duplicate entries on the spreadsheet.  Quite a few of them as a matter of fact.
• I needed a better way of doing things.  I've known this since the beginning of 2017, but hadn't taken action.

So over the past few weeks, I've taken every spare moment I could find and tackled this project.  I sorted cards first by decade, then by year, then by manufacturer, and finally by set.  I entered them all into the Trading Card Database and now I have just under 6200 cards sorted.

Now, I can find things.   Now, I can file new stuff that comes into the collection a lot quicker.  It feels damn good.

It actually got to the point a few weeks ago where I just wanted to light a match and set fire to the whole thing.  As you can see, that didn't happen. 

It's nice to have this done.  Plain and simple.  Now I can devote my free time to writing instead of sorting. 

Now if I can only think of something to write about....

Thanks for reading, Robert