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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 1743465, member: 19456&quot;]<span style="color: seagreen">Sorry about that. 2010 has been a bit of a trying year- I&#039;ve not been in good health for much of it, even worse than normal. (I have some issues I really don&#039;t like to talk about much). Back when I was in school I was sick for more than a year and the doctors couldn&#039;t find what it was. Well, this isn&#039;t the same thing (I know what this is) but apparently 2010 is going to go down in my history as another year when I spend most of the year sick or at least not good. As I type this I&#039;m hurting in more than a half dozen places. So, there&#039;s that.</span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">Then, there is the fact that I have not had hardly any money to spend throughout the year. 2010 has been lousy in that regard too. When I am not participating in a hobby I have a hard time getting into posting on the message board(s) related to it. I knew that was the case for my other hobbies and it really wasn&#039;t a surprise that it was the case with numismatics, either. A consideration with that is that seeing all the cool things being posted that I can&#039;t have...maybe can&#039;t ever have...it can make your outlook a little depressed about the hobby, if you know what I mean. </span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">I have also lost three good friends this year- two in November. I knew one of them was having health problems but he thought it was fixed...losing all three was a shock to me and I really do NOT deal well with death. I know that no one does but I&#039;m even worse. And I lost two of my best friends within two weeks of each other...less than a month ago. I&#039;m still sad about that and it&#039;s not always easy to be happy on a message board when you aren&#039;t happy in real life. </span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">There&#039;s another factor, but this is a good one. As you might have caught from my posts or visiting my website, I build scale models. 2010 has been a bit of a rennissiance for me. Since 1999 I built only cars but this year, on the strength of the support from one of my model clubs, I have greatly expanded my horizons. In 2010 I built my first ever airplane, figure, ship, and tank! I also found the time to build some cars, too! In all, I built 19 models during 2010 so I spent a lot of time on that. And as I eluded to earlier, if I am into a hobby I tend to spend the most time on the message boards for that...so what time I did set aside for internet/message boards, was spent on the scale modeling message boards, or researching. I know the cars I build by heart, but when I do a different subject, I have to do research which can be time consuming- but always fun! Last week I spent about 12 hours researching my next subject over a three day period (Teutonic Knights) Now, the winter is here in spirit if not in fact, and it&#039;s too cold to work on models. But it&#039;s not too cold to look at my coins, and here I am! </span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">I am looking forward to 2011. I hope it brings better health, and a better year for my hobbies-2010 has been my worst ever so it should be better! My New Year&#039;s Resolution from 2010 didn&#039;t happen, which was to visit the Parsippany NJ coin show. Didn&#039;t happen, so I will roll that into 2011 as well, and my NYR for 11 is to get myself at least one Byzantine coin. I have had plans to get Allan Berman&#039;s 5 for $20 deal on Byzantines but I have not been able to set aside the $20 for it yet. </span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: seagreen">I&#039;m sure none of you really care about all this stuff but it makes me feel good to say it, so I am! And that&#039;s all I&#039;ve got for this installment.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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