Night Owl Cards

   On the good side of being down one vehicle for at least the next month is I won't be able to act on any impulses to drive to Target/Walmart in search for cards.   The past week demonstrated how home-bound I will be (we're a two-car family and opposite work shifts allow us to trade-off the remaining -- older -- vehicle). The only alternative for card purchasing will be online.   I'm well-aware of the online options. I've mentioned many times that there have been no reliable card shops where I live for decades. The monthly card show has been a blessing, but that brings me to another obstacle: the weather.   I had planned to go to the latest monthly show Saturday. I skipped the one last month because it was zero degrees with wind-whipping snow. But this time, snow reappeared again, starting overnight -- more nasty angry-wind stuff. But the forecast promised it would wrap up by late morning. So, no sweat, the card show runs until 3.   Then the late morning f...

My favorite time of year begins today. It is always the day after the NBA championship game. That game -- of which I care nothing about, your endless prattling about LeBron V. Jordan, etc. is lost on me -- clears the schedule for baseball. From now until that depressing period around late August, there are no NBA games. There are no NHL games. No NFL. No college football. No college basketball. Baseball, by far my favorite sport, takes over and is king for a little more than two months. Any other sport going on at this time -- golf, tennis, auto racing, soccer -- can't touch baseball in terms of coverage. And I get to focus solely on my undying love with minimal distractions. This takes on extra importance because of my job. September through early June is cluttered with too many sports. It's impossible to concentrate on them all and there are constant complaints that "you aren't paying attention to MY sport." That all goes away in mid-June, replaced by gen...