I'm pulling away from the sidewalk. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

And I took my kids to school today. Okay, so from time to time, I like to revisit old articles I've done.

And this one actually is an oldie, back from April 2004. So this was an article called

Collecting My Thoughts. And it talks about an aspect of magic that I don't discuss all that much.

Collecting.

I mean, magic is a trading card game.

It is something, it's a collectible.

And I don't really talk too much about collecting.

So the point of this article was to talk a little bit about collecting.

And I did it from the vantage point of a collector.

So it turns out that I have a little collecting thing that I do my own.

They are called mini-mates.

They look kind of like little Lego figures, but I collect superhero minimates.

Mostly I collect really Marvel.

The company that did them for a while did some DC ones.

DC is the company that does like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.

Marvel does.

Well, you guys probably know Marvel at this point.

Spider-Man, Iron Man, you know, Captain America.

Anyway, so I have been collecting these for a long time.

In 2004, when I wrote this original article, I was collecting them.

And now, 15 years later, I'm still collecting them.

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