.... will be forthcoming when I return home. I left Sunday for a business trip with the chips put away in the vault preparing for scan. I did scan a single chip, the NYNY win chip for the Chipguide. I also got the lead on a few promotional chips that I am working toward.

But this year was all about quality over quantity. I've found that as my collection matures, I have quite a bit of the common chips and was able to pick up the new rack releases as they came out. So the convention was to find the hard-to-find chips or those that would fill in holes. In the past I was able to count the chips by the rack, but this year it doesn't even fill up a rack.

Bad news was I was not able to increase my Horseshoe collection. Ah well.... the search continues.

From a personal note, it was great to see everyone again. All my NJ friends that I left behind when I moved west, and all my chipper friends that I see only once a year (or in the case of Ron and Wilson once every two years).