When the first cards of the season hit store shelves, I like to have a story to go with it. It's a big event in my life -- whether you view that with pity or not, I don't care -- and I like to absorb all that goes into buying those first packs so I can remember what it was like at the start of the card season each year. That's also why I document it on this blog. Some think I carry on too much -- I can tell, and again I don't care -- but I can't be one of those people who buys a few packs at the start of the year and forgets about it as if it wasn't any kind of experience. IT'S THE FIRST CARDS OF THE SEASON, PEOPLE!!! GET EXCITED!!!!!!! So ... I started with all that to say, I don't really have a story this time. Just nothing that interesting happened this time. No weird exchange with the checkout girl, no wild weather to drive through (fortunately I bought my cards yesterday rather than today when there's a full-blown storm going on outsi...
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