Waiting ...

This is the first week in six months that I have not received a single card package in the mail. There are a couple of reasons for this.

One is I have been trying to catch up with the cards I have obtained recently -- organizing, filing, etc. -- so I have initiated very few trade talks. The second is I'm waiting on a handful of packages to arrive. Some are en route, another one is tied up in another trade, and three or four are out there in the stratosphere somewhere. With a couple of those, I have no idea if they will ever come home. But that's cool. Life plays some strange tricks and card collecting fades into the background like a child's stuffed toy.

Plus, I'm sure there are a few people who are wondering the same thing about cards I agreed to send them. I'm assuming my scattered brain has lost track of a trade or two. I hope people will let me know if I have.

But the trading hasn't totally come to a halt. I am working on four or five trades at the moment. I am days away from sending out packages to a couple of other people who are overdue to receive cards from me. And I have a week off coming up. It will be the perfect time to initiate some blog trades. I have a list of folks I plan to either contact or send cards to over the next two or three weeks.

Until then, I'm like Lou Piniella standing in the outfield. Waiting. Patiently waiting ...