Night Owl Cards

There are a number of hobby tasks I must address both here on the blog and elsewhere. But today is not the day for that because -- say it with me -- I have no time. I am spending my day working, as well as searching for cards for people as I continue to dig out from a backlog of IOUs dating to at least last November. I'm progressing as I've gone from about 5 weeks behind to 3-4 weeks behind. One of those folks on the "find him cards" list is Jaybarkerfan's Junk , just because I know he needs more Junk. I know that because he keeps sending cards out to people at a pace that could only be described as "frantic." I feel obligated to replenish his supply. This is the second time in the last couple of months that he's sent cards to me unsolicited-like. And, just like the last time, the cards are both tailored to my interests and gloriously random. A creased checklist from 1971 Topps? That is both very specific and "where is this coming f...

Gather around collectors and listen to a story about a card collector named Shane. Shane contacted me about a month ago and asked me whether I'd be interested in a trade. He had traded with a couple of bloggers , and I had noticed their enthusiastic response to the cards they received, so I gave it try. Damn glad I did, too. What follows is not the greatest card package I ever received. But it is in the top 5, easily. Shane has a crazy eye for detail as you'll soon see. He hit virtually every collecting interest that I have. The package started out with some cool random stuff like this 1982 O-Pee- Chee card of Fernando Valenzuela, who was a " Etoile de la L.N." in 1981. And there was one of the eleventy billion combo cards featuring Russell Martin. At the last minute Shane added a member of the Nebulous 9 to the package. Jim Tracy's stay on the nebulous list was mercifully brief. Then Shane moved on to set-building needs. He's a set-builder himself, s...