Night Owl Cards

  I've been updating my Dodgers binders the past couple of months. It's a process and I'm limited to doing it on days off, which sadly come around only twice a week. Usually, I will update the binders while watching a baseball game, often in the evening. I set up shop at the recliner in front of the TV and get to it. It's joyful busy work and the game prevents it from getting tedious and keeps me going. The recliner is getting old. Because of its location in front of the TV, it's been used a lot. When my daughter lived at home, it was her designated spot in the living room, where she'd watch her youtube shows or play video games after doing homework. I took over the chair after she went off to college. Only family should be sitting in it. The dog couldn't keep off of it and, well, in his older days, things got ugly. So last night I was sitting there updating my binders. I wasn't watching a game because the only thing on was ESPN's 7 millionth Red Sox...

It occurred to me that I haven't done one of those giant trade posts that everyone loves so much in quite awhile. It also occurred to me that I am on vacation this week. Why on earth have I not realized that vacation is the perfect time for a giant trade post? Well, other than the fact that Mother's Day is approaching and wrapping presents takes me about two days, the lawn mower is busted and I'm trying to get a new one operational, the cable is acting zooey and tech support even zooier, I've got a half dozen home projects that aren't getting done because I don't have the cash/know-how, my diet/exercise program eats up a tremendous amount of free time ... other than that, I guess I just never thought about it before. So, let me squeeze in an epic trade post. It'll take my mind of the fact that the guy next door is beautifying his lawn for the second time this week while I'm walking through knee-high grass. The first cards are from Nathan at Cana...