Job 20:9

The eye that saw him will do so no more,

   Nor will his place behold him again.

 

Knowing school was out today, I really rested yesterday more so than other Sundays. It is not like I go to school, so not sure why that mattered. But I do have a lot of work to get done today and tomorrow, so I am probably just procrastinating. So hopefully, I am productive today and tomorrow (and the guys are back in the office and productive tomorrow as well).

‘Saw’ was also ‘observed’ or ‘glimpsed’. ‘Do so’ was often ‘see him’ with one source dropping the verb to be ‘The eye may have glimpsed him, but never again’. That sounds pretty cool and more poetic.

‘Behold’ was also ‘sight’, ‘see’, ‘hold’, or ‘look on’. ‘Again’ was also ‘anymore’ or ‘longer’.

One of my duties is to be a steward of the resources God has given me to care for. I never felt like that gave me a mandate to turn one mina into ten, but knew I was not to hide the one in the dirt either. I have not always been as diligent as I could have, but I have tried to develop a level of frugality that prevents waste. But it has also made me an investor and taught me what to invest in and what not to invest in, with bad lessons each way.

One way I do not invest is with baseball cards. They are subject to so much risk that it takes too much work to overcome unless that is all you do. I posted a new rainbow of four autograph George Springer autograph rookie cards and some guy who is new to following me commented “‘fire emoji’ ‘fire emoji’, ‘fire emoji’ How much!” My first response was to say not for sale, my second was to say two million dollars, and my actual response was to ignore him. He didn’t put a question mark, so his intent was unclear.

I used to have a hard and fast dollar limit on buying baseball cards. That made it hard to spend too much. It also caused me to expand the collection beyond what I really was looking for. Now I have cards I would not pay for, but I do not want to get rid of either. I like my collection to only be cards I would buy again at a reasonable price, but getting rid of them is either too much work or simply throwing them away.

I know that my collection is not making me famous or wealthy, but I do feel it helps me stay humble when I make mistakes, feel poor when cards go beyond my limit, and brings me happiness that I am not so balled up in the money that I cannot take them out and look at them. I saw a person with a unique Altuve print plate who seemed desperate to know what it was worth. He said he wanted to keep it, but I felt he was only going to keep it if it was below some magical limit. The other day a fellow collector asked in a group how many rainbows I had. After I told them, someone mentioned museum. I laughed because most are so cheap, but I must admit I do rotate them in and out of the media room like museums do to art. Maybe my kids can donate to a museum rather than sell them after I am gone. Unless it’s an Astros museum, I doubt anyone would ever even look at them. (Interestingly, one of my friends has suggested the Astros Museum topic a couple times. Be interesting if he pulls that off.)

Written 1/26/26, Posted 3/29/26, Job 467/~1070