This week we had some fun with Halloween at work. We’re still mostly virtual and since our normally larger team meeting fell on Thursday, we had to have a little costume contest. Not everyone did it, but it was still fun. There was a “Carmie” from The Bear, a hippie, The Little Mermaid (Ariel), a flapper, Beetlejuice, and then there was me….
I broke out something I had done in the past and I did something card related. I was a 1982 Topps Traded Cal Ripken card. Some asked me why I didn’t do anything Mets related. Honestly, it’s mostly around two things: what I have to wear for it that’s “regular clothes” and which card design I can replicate.
I have a Cal “shirsey” that I use and I have a bat, that’s easy. Then I just take a piece of posterboard and I draw the card design. You only need orange, red, and black markers. I do take it a little bit of a step farther and I give some extra backing to it. to it stays looking like a card. If I don’t do that it will bend and rip.
We had some guest judges, but we’re still waiting on official results. I wasn’t the best, but I still had fun doing it.
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and has a great week!
The Review
Here’s what happened on the blog last week:
- Monday: Don August
- Tuesday: Jay Bell, Troy Loney
- Wednesday: Doug West
- Thursday: Mike Woodson
- Friday: Joe Oliver
- Saturday: Paul Fenton
- Sunday: Craig Janney
I was able to make a #twofortuesday theme last week. The theme was around Pittsburgh and the “Steel City”. So the Pirates and Penguins made appearances. It was also a pretty eclectic week with only football not showing. I did miss posting my Review / Preview for last week late, so that appeared last Monday.
The Preview
Here’s what I have coming up for this week:
- Monday: Staying in a Hostetler…
- Tuesday: The Snider cut…
- Tuesday: Dave’s not here…
- Wednesday: Holman, now hit it…
- Thursday: Take it to the House…
- Friday: Sax o’ potatoes…
- Saturday: Stams club…
- Sunday: In like Clint…
I happened upon another #twofortuesday this week. This time it’s all about the “Queen City” and the Cincinnati Reds will be the flavor of the… Tuesday.
Other Notes
I had another pretty good week last week. After a week of 24 returns, this week I followed it up with a week of 20. I got 18 successes back and two failures. What’s crazy is that pretty much was like four days of the week. I got most of those returns in the first two days of the week.
The failures were from John Rabb and Adam Peterson. I think Peterson was a bit more of a flyer, but Rabb I am not sure about because I saw some somewhat recent successes at the address I used. I didn’t try to reattempt either. As for stragglers, there were none. The only thing over 42 days was Larry Harlow at 159, but I used 200 days out for my stragglers.
The Recent TTM Success page will be updated next weekend.
Have a great week!