doodledee

I've been doing some work around the house this week. Mostly painting, but also some general maintenance, repair, and unpacking/moving-in. That's what we in the business like to call "a good use of your vacation time when you vacation time is categorized as 'use it or lose it' and you would rather not 'lose it'".

Anyway, this afternoon I was doing some handyman work on the top top tippy top shelf of the linen closet and I noticed what looked to be a baseball card or something way in the back. I stretched and picked it up and realized it was, in fact, a baseball card. And it looked to be old. "Here it is", I thought, "a hidden treasure, right here in the house...Honey, cash out the college savings accounts and go buy some jetskis, we won't be saving any more money!".

I held my breath and flipped it over and while it wasn't a Honus Wagner, it was a 1969 Frank Baker (Topps 704), which I assumed had to be worth at least a couple of thousand dollrs, though I obviously know nothing of baseball cards, but seriously, why would all those people obsess and collect these things if after 35 years they weren't worth at least a couple of thousand bucks? Dorks.

I raced down off the ladder and ran to the computer. Knowing nothing of baseball cards, I naturally checked the final arbitrator of record for the value of all things: eBay. First the good news: it's appears that it's not a forgery. Now the bad news: it's worth somewhere between $3 and $10. Not thousand. Just three. Or, if I'm lucky, ten. Remind me again why people fill their closets with these things for 35 years if they're only worth $3? (The first person to mention the 1200 Grateful Dead cassettes I'm still sitting on loses their free pin privileges.)

Bummer.

In other news, when I was tearing down the walls of my kitchen in my old house I found some really old newspaper. It was all wadded up for what I assumed was for insulation purposes. It's fun to find old stuff in houses. I think KC found some crazy old picture or something in his house one time. KC?