Merry Christmas!

 Jesus is the reason for the season. With that said I hope that everyone had a blessed day with goodies, family and friends, and cards too. 

Normally, I would be posting up all of my Christmas binders/Holiday sets. I'm not doing that this year. I had the binders all FIVE of them out last week (in fact I forgot to put my 2025 set in a new binder yet which will make 6 Christmas binders). 

I figured that with all of the not so normal events of December that I could use a break from my normal to give a me a chance to catch up on some other things. And I have been "catching up" on other things which has me feeling gurd. GURD.  

I will however take advantage up this last week of the year and do a close out on a few things.

1) The blog/hobby goals

2) The numbers regarding Braves released.

My hobby goals each year are pretty simple and normally I score myself A+. This year I get an F.

Why you ask? 

Goal 1: obtain 1 T206 card for that set build, and for the very first time I did not. 

Goal 2: Complete the PC update a year ahead of schedule, eh! I know I kind of took at least 2 months off which certainly hurt that goal. I really was ahead of the game and this goal was possible, but nope I am right where I am usually at at 14 months in. Half way! I will be finishing the M's by years end. It does look like I will finish before the October 2 year mark, but those P's R's, S's, T's, and W's are sizeable.

Goal 3: Kick start the original themes for Wacky Wednesday and Shadow Shots. This I did do A+ here, I did make mention that I wanted to get my Franken Friday going, but made no promises on that one. As for the 2 aforementioned themes.... I should have enough in the binders to go another 2 years, but I'm pretty sure I will suspend both of those sometime during the coming year. The numbers just aren't there (ie: views and comments). 

I also wanted to make sure I cut back (way back) on bulk buys which I certainly did that as the "super deals" weren't found that often. 

Now to the numbers....Braves numbers. last year at this time the Braves were sitting at 12, 209 and I predicted with the "late" releases it would shoot up to at least 15K. I was correct. There are 16,512 for the 2024 Braves so I will need to find some time to see if I got them all updated on my want/needs list. I figuring I'm short a thousand or so.

For 2025 the Braves are currently sitting 14,291, and I feel strongly with the "late releases" will match the 16.5K from 2024. 

Now for the BLOG. By years' end I should be at 268 posts which is 40 more than last year, 2 more than 2023, and 2 short of 2021. Basically I did my normal for the last decade. Prior to that it was always 300-365 or more. I've been content posting 5 days a week and don't see that changing anytime in the near future.  

I wish everyone an AWESOME 2026. I will put out my blog/hobby goals probably on Jan. 1 next Thursday so I guess I had better start thinking about them.