Night Owl Cards

It looks like another week without buying cards. That's why I love receiving packages from far away and cards that I ordered days ago. When they arrive, it's like you just bought them! Yay!!!! Please, please don't take away my U.S. Postal Service! I received the two Lineage '75 minis that you see here from Spiegel . You'll see the rest of what he sent some other time. Those two minis, and these 18 ... ... which I received from Community Gum , bring me to over 30 minis from the '75 insert set. Considering there are 200 of these things, that's not very much. Especially since I need two versions of all of the Dodger minis. I'll probably put up a want list soon. But I want to make it visible. Maybe I'll put it at the top of my want lists page, or just throw it on the sidebar. I'll spend some crucial weekend time pondering that. But for now, some more observations about the '75 minis. I don't care if you're sick of it. Go s...

Today's the day I take a break from baseball and blogging to celebrate my daughter's birthday. We have several festive activities planned for the day, but not one of them has to do with baseball, unless I interject the thought somewhere, only to get shouted down by my brand new teenager. In her honor, I'm displaying one of her passions of the past year. She is into shojo manga -- girly girl manga -- specifically the Shugo Chara series. Up until last fall, I had no idea what manga was outside of seeing some nonsensical cartoon shows on cable. But thanks to my daughter, I know it's a huge industry,  insanely popular, and that some of it definitely ain't for the kiddies. Even browsing through my limited bookstore, my eyes started blurring over the titles and varieties. I still struggle to comprehend it -- but I know enough that you don't read the books from left to right. And I think my daughter is happy that I know as little as I do (but not as little as sh...