Night Owl Cards

  There are a couple of people I know who wonder why I'm in such a hurry to retire. I don't know, it just sounds so attractive, especially the closer I get. I don't understand people who want to work until they're 75. (It's another matter if you have to). Also, there are several former classmates of mine who are already retired and I don't know if I've been more envious in all my life. Perhaps you need to be my age to understand. The job, like many others, ain't getting easier. In fact it's getting more complicated. Some of that may be just because I'm not able to process things like I once did, but I think a lot of it is the nature of the current world. And the older you get, the less enthusiasm you have for all of the adjustments , which seems to be the No. 1 thing work is all about these days.   Also, I feel my brain's ability to retain new information waning, even on some basic levels. An example: Yesterday, I looked at my fuel gauge and ...

Yup, I've got another online-only set for you today. But at least I wasn't the one who bought the cards this time. This delightful Corey Seager 1975-style mini, issued last year, arrived from R.C . He's the one who sent the '75 mini Kershaw previously . That one came from a 10-card set that accompanied the 2015 Topps mini set. I'm not sure if Seager here was packaged the same way. I have a hunch that it was though, because Seager came with six buddies! Good gosh, I sure do love those bright '75 colors. The color schemes are fairly accurate here, except for the Harper, which is way off. There was no such color combination in 1975 Topps. Also, the red-orange combo, featured on the Machado, should have blue team letters, not red. You may have noticed that adds up to only seven cards. That's because R.C. paid attention to my directive and took the three Cubs out of there! OK, well, actually, he's a Cubs fan and wanted Arrieta, Bryant and s...

As the resident card blogging owl, I've known how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop since the mid-1970s. But one thing this wise old owl has never known is how many blasters it takes to complete a set. I don't have the kind of money required to buy a bunch of boxes at once, and I don't have the dedication to chart how many boxes I've bought when my set is finished. So when I had the opportunity to buy $2.98 boxes of 2013 Opening Day, I figured this was my chance. They were cheap enough that I thought I could get the whole set in just a couple of shopping sprees. And the set is only 220 cards, so it seemed extra manageable. So after buying those six blasters I wrote about a couple days ago , I went back and grabbed the six remaining ones. Including the one blaster that I bought when I first discovered they were so cheap, that was 13 Opening Day blasters in three days. Would that be enough to complete the set? Well, when I had...