{"id":512,"date":"2002-08-23T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2002-08-23T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T22:10:00","slug":"a-new-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/a-new-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"A new obsession!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note:<\/b>The enthusiasm contained in this post is to add to the frivolous and pointless humour contained herein. Please free free to join in the madcap game.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b>While the idea in the main part of the post is meant for fun, there is some good, semi-serious information about me behind the cut.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

I’m colecting trading cards!!!! LiveJournal Trading cards<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s free, it’s fun, and you can meet new people. And if you don’t have any…You can make one up yourself<\/a>. I know… I did<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Ah, but how do you collect them?!? I have 39 as of this post. <\/p>\n

First, find a trading card. You can make your own or take mine \ud83d\ude42
\nSecond, add the post as a memory in LJ with the key phrase “Trading Cards”
\nThird, go find more!!!<\/p>\n

Come see my collection!<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought about the fact that they were called trading cards. I figured they should be collected. Well, I’m a collector…<\/p>\n

I’ve been a collector in one form or another for about 20 years. I started with comics in jr. high school. (I added jr. because the thought of HS being 20 years unnerved me)<\/p>\n

My grandfather was an ardent collector. He had coins. He’d raised his kids to collect stamps and baseball cards. I didn’t seem to have the bug.<\/p>\n

When I was about 22 I was visiting my grandparents and on a small table was a copy of “Classics Illustrated: The invisible man” Not the most valuable comic, but old, and worth preserving. I pointed out to him that the book shouldn’t just be left out, it should at least be stored in an acid-free bag with a backing board so it’ll hold its shape longer.<\/p>\n

Grandpa got a beautiful gleam in his eye and I knew he felt I’d gotten the bug. It was one of the few times I’d felt close to the otherwise quiet man in the rocking chair with a pipe. He looked down at the old book and said, “Here, you’d better hold onto this, I think you’d take better care of it”<\/p>\n

Well, it was 37, but a friend IM’ed me that she’d made one and I’d discovered the last thing that made me take a break.<\/p>\n

I started by adding the ones on my friends page. And then I realized, they must have gotten the idea from somewhere, so I meandered through their friends pages. After a few, I found other collectors and ran-sacked through their collections.<\/p>\n

Well, once that was done it was only a matter of time… I’d been contemplating… Hmmn, should I make a community. Well while contemplating and pillaging…
\nfiorile->inushu->crossfire_->tigerbright->tbone->penchantnya->quadlibetic->dustym->silenceleigh<\/p>\n

Oddly, fiorile somewhat inspired it. She doesn’t have one but commented<\/a> that her friends list had turned into a whole bunch of Trading cards. This got me looking. I found my way to crossfire_<\/a> who made the template and generator. Tigerbright was the first other collector I found and she was doing it the same way.<\/p>\n

silenceleigh had the link to the . I decided to post at this point. I already had a good size collection started.<\/p>\n

So the current craze seemed to have been caused by crossfire in the links in the main post. But I am admitedly a novice LJTC collector. I have learned while typing this that the the idea came up by a post from<\/a> blackcustard<\/a> dating all the way back to Tuesday. Which gave me 4 more and now I’m at 43.<\/p>\n

<\/lj>And lest you think it’s not worth playing. “God” has a card. I’m not talking about your ‘run of the mill’ popular view of God (god_dot_com<\/a>). I’m talking of the one true, “one blog to join then, one blog to rule them” God (brad<\/a>) (The God card<\/i> by <\/a>blackcustard<\/a>)<\/p>\n

*heh* 44<\/lj><\/p>\n

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