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Good morning from Austin, Texas. I am nearly finished with my delicious morning coffee, though I still need to take my old man vitamins. This attempt to build a morning routine is beginning to work out. I’m getting out a bed a little bit earlier every day and feeling motivated. I think it may be time to…
Exercise. 😲

(Please don’t hold me to that as it is an early idea at the moment).

I created this blog as a way to document my micro-adventures and to add more fun into my life. I love to have a checklist and mark items off and I love to show off. I’m still a “Hey! Hey look at me!” kind of guy and I am comfortable with this. This blog is just a fun way for me to document the things that I enjoy and to reflect back on later as well as sharing these adventures with friends and strangers. My goal is not to get the most views, clicks or money, but enough of my internal monologue, let me tell you about this post card because there are several stories here.

First the story of Andice, Texas. I touched on this on my previous post about how I ended up here. There is a story that this town got its name from a sign that read “Beer and Ice,” but the “beer” part was destroyed. If you want to know if this is true or not, please visit the general store in Andice, TX and ask. They will be happy to tell.

This is the location of where I purchased this wonderful card which is the most expensive postcard that I have purchased so far at $5.

I am told that the set of post cards that I purchased this from was on Antiques Roadshow.

Now, after this visit to Andice I went to Florence, Texas because of the suggestions from the workers at Andice. My first visit here was to a lovely little library. At this library I grabbed a handful of bookmarks at the urging of the librarians. I could always use a few more bookmarks and they had some very nice ones.

This was on Friday July 21st at around 2:30 pm.

This morning, Monday July 24th at about 8:45 am I hoped onto postcrossing.com to send another postcard (my second card to Germany has arrived).

The lovely profile of this person in Italy shared that they would love to receive bookmarks and that they also enjoy American football.

So I dove into the closet and pulled out the giant box of props from murder mystery games where the largest envelopes I own reside and on about my fifth dive I found an envelope that is both small enough to send to Italy and large enough to hold the bookmarks. I also tossed in a football card that I recently acquired through another unusual set of events.

The story of Andice to the trip to Andice to the trip to Florence, to the collection of bookmarks at the librarians’ urgings to the Monday postcard which is now officially the first that I have sent through in an envelope.

Quite the set of events.

And this reminds me of one last item.

I am a big old anime geek. Back in the late 90s I would order fansubbed anime on VHS. I would scrape up what little money I could find and pay to have duplicates of anime that was subtitled by amateurs and VHS duplicates made by college students and shipped out to broke kids like me.

It was common courtesy to “tip” the folks making the copies, but I never had any spare income. I had to save up the $18 to afford the shipment, but what I did have were little trinkets to slip in. I did not want to cheap out on these trinkets and so in one of the shipments I added the above card. My favorite of the anime game cards that I owned. Nabiki Tendo. I don’t thank anyone else would have cared as much as I did, but in my mind this was the best card in my collection and I wanted to show my appreciation. Today was the second time in my life that I snuck in a little collector’s card into an envelope.

Time to put on some clothes and drop this into the outgoing mail slot.

My postcard map (by city) can be found here: https://rb.gy/ul0z9