I’ve had a few folks ping me this week to ask what I’m doing with TTMs over the next few weeks. I have to admit that I’m a bit on the fence about it. There are things I’m doing and things I’m thinking and sometimes they don’t match. I have looked a few things up to try to give myself answers but I honestly still don’t know what’s the right thing to do.
So what am I doing… I’ve stopped sending as of yesterday. Why yesterday, well, I ran out of envelopes. So a forced stoppage that isn’t necessarily of my own doing. But I think it’s good for me to take a little break from sending. I have plenty of things to post and I’ll still get things back. But maybe the responsible thing is to just take a break for a little bit.
What am I thinking… well that’s all over the place. I do wonder if taking a break will take me out of a routine. I’ve thought about slowing down instead of completely stopping. I’ve thought about making rules to maybe stop sending to states that are supposed to be in a full “stay home” scenario so as to do my part to not encourage people being out and about. I’ve tried to read articles to see if the mail is a big source of this thing spreading to maybe give myself an out.
But what I ended up with is to stop sending for now. I’ll still get returns to post and have a backlog. I’ll use the time to write and prep for hopefully when baseball is back and when my requests will go back out again. And I have some boxes of cards to open and I’ll try to find some other things to write about.
For now, let’s keep blogging!
The Review
Here’s what happened on the blog last week:
- Sunday: Dave Goltz
- Monday: Brad Muster
- Tuesday: George Kittle
- Wednesday: David Nied
- Thursday: Adam Kennedy
- Friday: Gene Clines
- Saturday: Dale Sveum
I really wanted a post a few prepared “Card Thoughts” articles that I had ready to go, but my days just were taken away by work (Can you believe that? The nerve!). I ended up posting my normal posts several hours after I normally do in most cases last week. That ends up throwing me off a bit if I’m doing multiple posts in a day.
The Preview
Here’s what I have coming up for this week:
- Monday: Ant-nee…
- Tuesday: Tyrone, for reals…
- Wednesday: Looking in the (sounds like) Mirror…
- Thursday: Johnny Cakes…
- Friday: Born of Clay…
- Saturday: Dayo, Daaaayo…
- Sunday: Something that reminds me of 2 Live Crew
I’m sure these get as hard for you to guess each time as it is for me to try to make them up.
Other Notes
I had an absolutely insane week of returns and my backlog is now at 128 and projecting out until July. March is shaping up to be a pretty great return month, but that and with me stopping requests, April is bound to be slow. Definitely going to hurt my goals for the year. But at least the content for the blog is there right?
Everyone please be good to each other… Make good decisions… Listen to facts and good information… Don’t spread bad information… and stay safe and healthy.