At the end of each year I publish a wrap-up of my card-collection experiences for the previous 12 months. In that annual review, I list "sets I will complete in (fill in year)" as a friendly jab at both new year's "goals" and my inability/refusal to set new year's goals. I don't have any concrete plan to complete the listed sets in my review. For a lot of reasons -- even more now than ever -- I keep my expectations low. One of those reasons is I'm working on so many sets already that I could travel through the entire upcoming year just working on those without adding anything else onto my plate. But a card-collector's eyes are bigger than his stomach -- despite what you see of the clientele at card shows. I can't help but add more set stuff to chase. In the coming year, I'm quite sure I'll be adding 1987 Fleer and 1992 Topps to my "officially chasing" lists, just because they're key (and easy-to-chase) outliers in the ...
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