Night Owl Cards

I went out of town for a couple of days and while I was there received a bit of bad news with regard to family. I'm not comfortable discussing it here, in small part because I don't entirely know what the news means, whether it's a little bad, a lot bad or some sort of false alarm. But the key thing I'm taking from this news is how important patience is. In general, I'm a patient person, probably much more patient than most people, going as far as it being a detriment in that I can be too patient. But there are times when I don't exercise enough patience. Surprise, surprise, often those times involve cards. Recently, I received a bunch of 2018 Topps Opening Day Dodgers from Matt at Once a Cub . He has busted an entire case of Opening Day, started an OD blog , and had promised to distribute lots of extras to fellow collectors. I wasn't exactly thinking about that though when I was at a card show a couple of weeks ago and started pulling as many D...

Precipitation seems to be a big deal around other parts of the country. I read about droughts and fires and water rationing. And in the last week or two, I've received full reports on snow in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas. I get it. It doesn't snow there a lot. Meanwhile, I'm reading this with it snowing right now and nearly two feet of snow sitting on the ground, most of which fell all within one 24-hour period last weekend, after 12 hours of raining buckets. Lack of precipitation, or the wrong kind of precipitation, is not a problem here. Sometimes I wish it would "precip" (meteorologist word) a little less -- to make the basement headaches go away. But most of the time, it's not an issue at all. It's expected. Most of the time the reaction is: "it's snowing again" and then we go back to what we were doing. Snow definitely does not look out of place here, like it does, for instance, on a Topps baseball card. I nabbed a fe...

The Dodgers aren't doing all that great here in the early season. It's not much of a surprise, when the World Baseball Classic takes away your shortstop and a deluded mound-charger takes out your No. 2 pitcher, but it still makes me aggravated. I'm not one of those fans who thinks Yasiel Puig should be called up and Matt Kemp benched (I can only imagine the lives of people who suggest this -- "My shoelace broke! ... THAT'S IT, I'M NEVER WEARING SHOES AGAIN! "). I'm much less reactionary. When someone mentions the Dodgers these days, I just mumble something about "three weeks into the season," grumble, and then sigh. (*sigh*) Opening Day, and Clayton Kershaw's mound-plate command performance, already seems so far away. To illustrate, I'll show some Opening Day cards I received from Matt of Once a Cub and Jack of Baseball Dad's All Tribe Baseball . Ah, Dre. If we're talking about replacing someone with Puig, h...