I'm doing good, I still occasionally read some posts, but don't check everyday.
I haven't been searching much for the past year as I got involved in my other urban treasure hunting hobby of buying sports card collections instead. Over the past year, I've purchased a few rather large collections (and some smaller ones) that I found at the right (very inexpensive) price and have spent most of my time sorting through those instead of coins. Filling holes from my large childhood collection from the 80's and going backward and forward from there. With the 25 year gap since I last actively collected...lots of holes to fill. I also started getting into the grading aspect of it and not just filling the hole, but keeping track of each card such that I replace it with a nicer one when I find one. Gets to be quite time consuming...
If I don't buy more, only about 1,000,000 cards left to sort through. And yes, that is my actual estimate of the number of cards remaining (probably within 50,000 or so). Between creating spreadsheets for each new set to keep track of holes, grade, and at least a crude level of their value and grading cards when adding or replacing ones in my master set, plenty to keep me out of trouble. When I am just sorting/adding doubles, it does go a lot faster, so my speed should eventually improve a bit. I think I am at around 165,000 cards in my spreadsheets at the moment. Focusing on adding cards from the 70's and before first, before going on to the newer stuff.
I was thinking about adding in a couple bags of coins a week again, but haven't started yet. Maybe this week.
