Soothing, like watching running water or listening to rain.
It was good to see your hand at the beginning. That helped show the scale. And cool effect at the end watching the title turn into colorful randomness.
Not footballs ... and not showing them off well ... but these are some of my favorite deformities. They have flat bottoms or creases which give them built-in marble stands.
(And a few in this pic are flat-out halfs, so they have their own built-in base that way.)
We're getting down the homestretch in the sort. The marbles which were gifts (small sets) from the various runs are safe. Well, "safe" from being discarded. I stored my first several runs in one single box, separated with loose dividers ... and then I tripped ... so one day I'm going to ask for help telling them apart. But they're mostly safe and I didn't repeat that mistake.
But I had soooo many of the Last Dances and Tributes. I've had some good help finding new homes for many of them. But here are the "SemiFinals" of my keeper sort. I wanted to fit all the keeper Last Dances into one glass-top case and all the keeper Tributes into a second case. Below you see how well that's going.
The Last Dance case semi-final sort in progress:
The Tribute case semi-final sort in progress:
*thinking about Ann*
Our move looks like it could really be happening too.
I'm terrified.
Over dumb stuff like how to change my internet service (and not screw up on any of the ongoing ebay auctions which I'm doing fast and furiously to try to help finance the move).
Sometimes I google hoping to find some fun marble-related news item to post. .... and sometimes I can't even hint about what I found because it's too awful.
There's some really sketchy stuff which happens with marbles.