Night Owl Cards

It seems that whenever I'm waiting for an interesting card package to arrive in the mail it always appears on a day when I'm too busy with work or some other soul-sapping obligation. In fact, it seems that the card mailing gods purposely wait until I'm very busy for the package to arrive. I've encountered times when I was told I'd receive a package on a certain day -- a day off -- and the package didn't arrive, until the next day -- a day on. Well, card mailing gods be praised, just the opposite happened today. I won a blaster of 2018 Topps from P-Town Tom of Waiting 'Til Net Year and Tom said the post office targeted Tuesday as the time of my prize's arrival. Tuesday was a workday. But no 2018 blaster appeared in the mail. Today was a day off. And guess what showed up?! On a day in which it snowed nonstop so I had to stay inside and not do anything productive! Except open my prize of free new cards! This will probably never happen again. ...

I read somewhere a couple of days ago about how annoying younger people find voice mail. In an attempt to rid the world of voice mail -- a laudable mission, I agree -- they're inventing some sort of techie way to get around it. I can't explain it any further than that, I'm afraid. I zoned out somewhere around the technical part. But it made me think that each generation has its moments of intolerance with "the way things are." What an older person may think is an everyday fact of life that the younger person should get over, the younger person thinks is the most insufferable idea ever and can't believe the stupidity of the world before they came along. I'm an older person now. But I'm not old enough to forget my younger days. And I remember being very irked by things that existed prior to my birth and -- to my ever-so-ticked way of thinking -- STILL existed for some inexplicable, but positively STUPID reason. Number one on the list was black-a...