Yesterday was my little brother Ethan's 46 Birthday. It will be 2 weeks since he passed away tomorrow. Last week Monday we had a small viewing of him that included my folks and my nephew before he was cremated. It was the first time I saw him since the day he passed on. It was rough but I made it through by being there for my nephew & ex-sister in law as well my folks. It was extremely rough for my father it was his first look at him since he missed out on viewing him from the hospital. The photo on top of this post is a picture of him taken during one of his weekly pinball tourneys he would play in he has that famous trademark smirk on his face that I swear that our genes has from the likes of possibly cousins Burt,Ryan,& of course Harold.
Don't hate my family genes cause of this trait.
Yesterday I went to brunch with my mother so she would go stir-crazy cause of the events in the last couple of weeks thinking I forgot about my little brothers birthday yesterday. I didn't forget instead I showed her the tribute I made on my blog on about him she was shocked on what all I had to say about him then understood why I had brought with me during the viewing the 1988 Topps Card of Bob Gibson Turn Back the Clock if your aren't familiar with the story I suggest you read my post dated on February 19th.
Alrighty!!! Now I'll try to bring this blog post to an up lifting moment. During my time that I was off work from mourning I went through some of my many 3200ct to 5000ct Basketball boxes of stuff trying to find what can I possibly do with in making a sets with when I found a batch of the `23/`24 Donruss I have 126 out of 250 remaining left to find to complete the set so I am going to embark in trying to see how many I can locate on Tuesday before I put the list up on my wantlists. I am planning to go to the LCS where I usually get the 3200ct & 5000ct boxes of singles to see if I can bring the number down from 126 to a more easier number to find & yes before you even wonder I do need Wembanyama but I am not in a rush to complete the set or to trade for him I just hope that when I do go that I can cut the number down to maybe find 40 or less so stay tuned to my blog I plain on talking about this set later this week after I go to the LCS after my school job on Tuesday. I also haven't decided to figure if I want to go to a shop near Flint or go to a shop outside of the Detroit area after my school job on Wednesday. So stay tuned to see what I end up doing. With that said I am reminded of the great Rajah Hornsby who talks about signing autographs for little kids once said "Any ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."
