I had a lot of free time at home. Not sure you can call it industriousness, mostly it's just that I get bored easily.

[He shrugs one shoulder, with a little 'what can you do?' sort of gesture.]

The cards, though, they're just because of what I do. I'm a medium-- I see and talk to dead folks' spirits, and I kind of act as a liaison between nonhumans and the rest of the world. Help them stay hidden and all. I deal with a lot of other occult stuff in my line of work, and they seemed interesting, so-- why not, right?