Night Owl Cards

  I've been tangling with modern inconveniences for the past month. None of it is overwhelming or a real crisis but also all of it was not even a thought 10 years ago.   To review briefly:   * Misunderstandings related to social media (yes, plural) * Getting yelled at work by readers (related to cutbacks and out of my control) * Covid arriving at home for the first time and during the holidays (we're OK) * Contractors who say they'll do the job and then disappear (it's now an epidemic around here)   It does wear on me and I'm sure others have been dealing with their own life issues at this time. It's one of the reasons why I collect -- it gives me my own space to go where I can shut out the drama of everyday existence. I'm not sure what I'd do if I didn't collect and baseball was in its offseason -- whine about my team's transactions, I guess.   But collecting saves me from that. And sometimes you get happy little card convergences that make life...

  Card blogs are for showing off your own, very personal card interests. If nobody else cares about them it doesn't matter. That's why it's your blog. But I've made a blog living out of trying to make those very personal card interests about something with wider appeal. I consider it a challenge. Today, I'm all challenged-out. I have the rest of my COMC haul to show off, the non-Kershaw part. It's a variety. I can't wrap up all the items into one tidy subject, at least nothing I haven't written about before. So you're going to see them with no theme, no deep thoughts. It'll be just cards ... except the things that aren't cards ... that only I care about. Like so: These are a couple of cheap items in a modest attempt to boost my collection of Martina Hingis. She's my favorite tennis player, I should have at least a full page of her cards. Not cards but stickers, and only the greatest stickers ever made. I'm mostly talking to a wall whe...