Night Owl Cards

I took dayf up on his offer and traded my treasured 1987 Kevin Bass card for a 2001 Wendell Magee Jr. card on the Topps Million Card Giveaway site. I didn't particularly want the Magee card. Who does? But after dayf's vitrolic harangue against one of the most idiotic public relations statements in history, regarding the Upper Deck settlement with MLB, it was the least I could do. What's dayf going to do with a Kevin Bass card? I don't know. I'm sure it'll be interesting. I hope it doesn't involve quite as much cursing as his post last night. Anyway, I've already made the Magee card work for me. After completing three trades on the Giveaway site, all between bloggers, I offered a number of my lame cards up for trade for anyone, just to see what happened. Almost all of the offers are still pending and I don't have a lot of confidence in any of them, but one trade went through. It was the Magee card. Somebody agreed to the deal. In exchange,...

It's been a hectic few days, and I've pretty much been in zombie mode the last 48 hours. I couldn't even muster the strength to comment on anyone's blog while I was at work tonight. This is serious, people! Earlier today I drove to my daughter's school to pick her up, stood out in the parking lot so she could see me, waited and waited, then realized, "oh, she has girls scouts. She's not coming out." Then I quietly slunk back to my car, hoping no one saw me leave sans child. Later I went to work. There's a new policy that anyone arriving after 6 p.m. needs a key to get in. Before, a clerk would let you in. I arrived and realized the doors were locked. I walked back to my car to get my phone to call someone to let me in. By the time I reached my car, I realized: "hey, I have a key to get in. I attached it to my key chain two days ago. Duh!" Yeah, I'm frazzled. But I've got two days off now. And earlier today FOUR card package...