Still Down, and Out Artelopes

Tuesday's post mentioned about how I have been feeling down, and out with a cold. While writing the post I was hopeful that things were making a turn for the better. They might be doing just that, but the cold still seems to be holding on. Since I want to write something, but just can't get my brain focused enough t do the two big posts I have planned. What you are getting today is another day of me hoping this cold final bows out, and a half-hearted post of two artelope returns.

The Monsters are one of the very few hockey teams I actually collect schedules from. Honestly they are the one minor league team I have been the most consistent in trying to get each year.

Before starting the artelopes project the Monsters were missing from my business card collection. Now in its second year I have gotten a second business card. To me that feels like a success.

I thought being the Nets are a basketball team why not go with a ball through a net. A little something new in the design department seemed fitting.

Unfortunately the team only sent three schedules, and not the business card I was looking for. Like NFL, and NHL teams the NBA teams are tough additions. Maybe soon I'll attempt a couple more teams, and will have better luck with those teams.

Unlike Tuesday where I was hopeful to be feeling better. I feel pretty drained right now, and am looking to just survive the week at work. Then spend the weekend working on feeling better. Until then who knows how, or when posts will come.

Caught A Cold

A couple days into our recent vacation I started to feel the early stages of a cold coming on. Lasting through the remainder of our vacation. I finally lost the fight on Thursday night while sitting at home.

Not feeling the best all weekend, but pumping orange juice into me. Monday night I started to feel better, but today will be the true test. After having a little over a week off having a blast work is calling again.

Using my warped mind, and some cards that came in from Ron of TradingBases. I got to thinking about how much better I'd be feeling if cards were medicine. I could start the heeling process by taking two of these.

Two Tex cards is way better than two cold pills, or a drink of the nasty cold medicine. Either way these two  go down way better than any of that other medicine.

Adding a Rosario into the process would be just as helpful as anything. See the guy laying down on the ground in the card. Hopefully a card this cool would knock my cold out as well. What I do know is I felt like that player on the ground. So much that I spent most of my Saturday, and Sunday sleeping.

Nolan would be the blanket you are buried under most of your time sick. That blazing fastball had to make the hitter feel a little warm as it passed by.

The scary thing is once I see this posted on Tuesday I'm going to be wondering what the heck. It will show more than anything why I probably shouldn't write while sick, and tired at the same time. Either way there is no going back now.

University of Utah Utes

For some strange reason the artelopes project has been running kind of slow. Within the last two months I sent out nine envelopes, and until picking up the held mail on Friday. Only one of the nine had made their way back home. Things changed on Friday, but not by much as only one return was waiting inside the rather small batch.

I thought it would be cool to go with a portion of the school's logo. When I did the artwork at the time I was kind of torn on my opinion of it. Looking at it now I'm pleased with the final result, and thrilled with what it yielded.

The original request was for football schedules, and a business card. When it was sent I was hoping that it wasn't to late for the football schedules. As you can see from the scan above, not only did I get football. I am going to be saving another two stamps by not having to write for basketball schedules.

These are the two things I was most excited about in the entire return. There is already a business card for the Utes in my college sports collection. That card was from the time frame they were in the Mountain West.  Since making the jump over to the PAC12 I have traded for Utah schedules, and not written the team. Now the collection has the two designs the college is using since joining the PAC12.

These two were fun little additions into the mix that were a huge surprise. The smaller is a tattoo that odds are will end up on the daughter at some point. The big red card talks about where the Utes got their name. I'm going to add the card into my Utah schedule collection while putting the schedules away.

No Catchy Title Here

Before going on our journey to So Cal there were two mailers that came in. The first of these was an expected package full of pocket schedules.

Coming from fellow TradingBases member Mark. These beauties arrived a couple days before our exit out of town. Problem was I couldn't come up with a catchy title for the post. From there things went downhill in a hurry when it came to thanking Mark.

Without a title I was lost. A poor soul sitting at a keyboard, but lost at what I should say. Thinking about how I could dream something up before we left town. As you can see by the fact that this post is after the trip. The catchy title never came, and honestly still hasn't showed up.

Problem is Mark deserves something to show how much these schedules are appreciated. He needs to know that these all arrived safe, and sound. Not out roaming the world lost, and looking to arrive at their destination.

So here I am still without that title, but thanking Mark for a sweet package of schedules. It's a little late in its timing, but hopefully still effective in its message. Hopefully next time the catchy title will come to me, and the wait won't be as long for a thank you.