Night Owl Cards

  The sooner you figure that out the easier life will get. I bet it takes people until their 30s to realize that, and many even later in life. I think I was in my 40s, and I still wonder if I know how to adjust. Because it's not just solely being aware that life is a series adjustments but to be at one with it, to be at peace with the new development and that there will always be new developments, and LFG.   For example, there's card show coming up in a couple of weeks. Not only that but -- new development -- there are two card shows in essentially the same area going on at the same time. I've had it marked on the calendar for months because shows don't come around all that often, my last one was five months ago. Why I plan stuff out anymore is beyond me, because I'm not even sure I'll go to the card show now because -- new development -- money is suddenly tight. With new developments and adjustments popping off all over the place, it's good to have backups....

I was intrigued by garveyceyrusselllopes' post this morning on early 1960s Jello cards because like many collectors I've never been able to tell the difference between Jello cards and the Post cards that came out at the same time. Oh, sure, there are lots of places you can go where they'll tell you how to figure out the difference, but that means actually having to reeeeaadd something that isn't a card blog and I'm so laaaaaaaaazy. So even though I have the information right in the next room in the form of the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, I just kept right on going, "maybe I have a Post card, maybe I have a Jello card, oh, well, I guess I'll never know, la di dah!" I'm glad someone finally put a stop to that. Jim's blog post referenced Wrigley Wax's blog post from a couple of months ago that had information on how to tell the difference. This basically concerns only the 1963 Post and Jello cards because with the 1962 Pos...