Night Owl Cards

I don't have the revised list of the 100 Best Dodger Cards Ever Made ready to go yet. But I still plan to unveil it this weekend. In the meantime, I figured we could take a little trip to Pawnee, Indiana with a pack of Parks and Recreation trading cards that I grabbed maybe three weeks ago. Although I like Parks and Rec a lot, I can't claim I was around for the beginning of the show. About the only thing I follow on television is sports, the local news and whatever is streamed through Netflix. And during a particular frumpy time in my life, I plopped in the recliner and soaked up four seasons of Parks and Rec on Netflix in a couple of weeks. It was very entertaining. I sure love me some quirky. But I haven't watched an episode of the show since. I keep meaning to, but I keep meaning to do a lot of other things. If you're a regular cardboard follower, you probably know that the 2013 Parks and Rec set was put out by PressPass. It's a 90-card set and the...

I am about as horribly inefficient as I have been in months. Woefully behind with holiday stuff. Slacking on the job. Lazily avoiding any blog posts of substance. I don't know what it is. During my daily downtime, I end up plopping in the recliner and catching up on Parks and Recreation episodes on Netflix. That's been my ritual pretty much for the last week or two. If it's late morning or late night after work, it's time for Ron Swanson and the gang. I know doing nothing is Swanson's style. But I don't have a government job, and this isn't good. I've periodically viewed people's addictions to weekly episodic TV as depressing and a sign that they're in a funk. Well, I'm in a funk. There's no doubt about it. I'm not being productive at all. I feel stagnant. But I figure I might as well laugh at 11 a.m. and 1 a.m. each day. More TV viewing also means not much time for blog stuff. Plus, I've got to get ready for a long-a...