Happy New Year

 Hi everyone.  Been a while since I posted, hope you are well.

Thought I`d do a little one of those year end wrap up type posts that are so popular among bloggers at that time when we put new calendars on the wall. 

2021 was a quiet year on the blog - just 25 posts all year, and none since August.  That is way off 2020`s blistering pace of blog output.  Work is mostly to blame, I have been too busy to devote much time to the hobby or blogging about it.  It looks like this will continue until about February, after which I should be able to get back to blogging again. 

Even if it hadn`t been for work, I`m not sure I would have much to post about anyway, at least in terms of picking up neat new things.  The market here has gone crazy and I`m just not able to buy cool old menko and other cards the way I used to, even just 12 months ago.  Prices are through the roof and they`ve gotten to the point where I`ve had to declare "I`m out" on a lot of stuff I used to be able to collect.  

So for 2022 I`m basically keeping my expectations modest.  The menko collection probably isn`t going to get many new additions, but I`ll keep plugging away at my old Calbee sets.  The prices on those have gone up a fair bit too, but not as much as the old menko have so they are still within reach.  And I`ll keep an eye out for whatever else tickles my fancy.

That is about it for now.  I`ll leave you with this random weird thing I found. Someone on Yahoo Auctions has a decent 1962 Topps Stan Musial card for sale here.  I just love the way they spell his name in Japanese.  If you can read that katakana across the top it says "Stan Museum". Probably just a typo, but it has a poetic ring to it.