Night Owl Cards

 (Hey look, part-time blogger night owl has another post up! Sorry again for the infrequency. I should be back to the regular 5-days-a-week-but-not-quite-8-hours-a-day posting schedule next week. For now, it's just one card, because it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 333rd in a series):   Today is the anniversary of the Dodgers signing Hideo Nomo so I've got a timely post. I like those. I keep telling myself to cut back on all the social media outlets but then I go and add another one with the Baseball Card "House of Cardboard" Discord site. (I've cut back on Facebook and Twitter, so I suppose it evens out). The attractive part of social media for me still is: I find out baseball card things. Like the card above, for example. This card is from an insert set from 2005 Donruss called "Inside View". Now comes the part I didn't know until I saw a discussion on Discord: The set was pulled from production by Donruss, but somehow some of ...

Circumstances over the past 24 hours have me thinking about legacies, specifically how you will be remembered and what you will leave behind. There was a shooting in my city yesterday, one of those horrific workplace shootings in which two people died senselessly and the entire community was turned upside down. This type of thing is disturbingly common now but it's an awful first for my city and it took place on the same block where I work. One building away.   It makes you think about a lot of things. One of the big ones is "have I done enough to be remembered?"   Oh, there are those who think that type of talk is selfish and "who cares" and "I'm going to live how I want to live and who gives a damn if anyone remembers me." Great. Enjoy that train wreck. I think it's natural to think about your legacy, your contribution. Legacies aren't just for famous people, celebrities or sports figures, Kirk Gibson limping around the bases on video for...

You probably haven't noticed, unless you have a stalker-like fascination with this blog and if that's the case I don't want to know, but I've been cutting back on a few blog-related activities. It's all in the continued attempt to get the maximum enjoyment out of this hobby without having it take over my life. About three years ago, I was involved in just about anything card-related that I knew, and it really exhausted me. I've slowly removed myself from a lot of hobby outlets, have stopped devoting myself fiercely to modern cards, and have stopped blogging like my salary depended on it. I see myself stepping back even more in the coming months, although you don't have to worry about me ditching this blog or any of my others. Most of the streamlining will be as unnoticable as what I've already done. For example, the "Dodgers I Collect" page up top no longer features players like Jackie Robinson, Matt Kemp, Steve Garvey, Duke Snider, et...