Night Owl Cards

I was aimlessly wandering through my blogs the other day. It's the only way I can explain how I discovered this. I was looking at the stats of my completed 1975 Topps (it's far out, man) blog , which have been pretty consistent at 50 or 60 views a day as I haven't posted anything there in a year-and-a-half. I noticed a monstrous spike in viewership that occurred on Wednesday. Since spikes like this are unusual on dormant blogs, I investigated a little and noted that the spikes could be attributed to folks clicking on the entry for George Mitterwald, a forgotten catcher for the Twins and Cubs in the '70s. Normally this means some wildly popular website has linked to an entry of mine for whatever quirky reason. But that was not the case this time. No, the reason that people were reaching my blog of random facts and personal musings was because of the Cubs game against the White Sox that day. Dioner Navarro, a former Dodger, hit three home runs that game to beco...

I'm not on speaking terms with my mail carrier. Not that he knows this yet, but the next time we see each other face-to-face, which happens about, oh, every four months, I am going to give him the silent staredown. Until today, I had not receive mail in three days. Sunday and Monday, of course, there was no mail. On Saturday, we had a wicked snowstorm in which we received a foot-and-a-half of snow between 4-10 a.m. We received no mail that day, too. Whatever happened to that saying, "neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night ..."? I guess "wicked snowstorm" isn't on the list, huh? So, I was anxiously awaiting the mail today because I knew there were some cards on the way. I did receive three packages, which is fantastic. But I know my mail carrier is holding out on me. The mail load was probably quite heavy after no mail on Saturday (I received a number of other articles of mail today, as well -- bills, magazines, investment notices informing me that my r...