Night Owl Cards

The reconstructing of my want list is coming along, although it's a slow process. My decision to add names and make it more complete (I'm finding out already how much stuff I was missing) is adding to the length it will take to finish. So, for incoming packages at the moment, my binders are my want list. Do I have this card? I have to go to the binders to find out. This is also a lengthy process and can be particularly lengthy when you get a large box of cards, or what John of Johnny's Trading Spot , calls a "card dump". John dumped a bunch of Dodgers on me once again recently and wondered how many of those 300-or-so cards I actually needed. One? Two? Three? Four? The last card dump from John I calculated how many of the cards I needed and came up with 13 percent, which is actually quite good for a dedicated team collector. I don't know the percentage of what I needed this time. Like I said, it was a long process and I can't be doing math, too....

The trouble with trying to make a trade post more than a trade post is I always end up with leftover cards that don't fit into whatever topic I am addressing. They are square pegs (no, I never watched the show) that are significant on their own but are unable to conform to the latest discussion on this blog. To go along with that, there have been an abundance of one-card plain white envelope packages arriving -- what folks are calling PWE bombs -- but it's difficult to write one-card posts all the time. These are all items that are more than worthy of showing and I definitely don't want to ignore the fact that someone sent them to me. So let's have a look at what has been messing up my card desk and undermining my 2013 mission to stay on top of card clutter. I'd recommend not clicking away to something else. There's some good and varied stuff here. This is yet another card from Jaybarkerfan's Junk . It is my first relic card of former Dodgers s...

This is an atomic refractor. It's my first one. Sooz sent it to me. I never knew what an atomic refractor was until recently. When I first arrived on the blogging scene and read the now departed Wax Heaven, Mario brought up the atomic refractor almost every other post. He bowed before its glory, and everyone nodded in recognition. I was completely lost. That's because Bowman introduced the atomic refractor in the late 1990s when I was in my "silly rabbit, collecting is for kids" phase. I never even heard of the Bowman product that featured the atomic refractor -- Bowman's Best -- until three years ago. So, I had never laid eyes on its wondrousness. I still don't know if the atomic refractor that came out in the late '90s is the same as today's version of the atomic refractor. They don't look the same. At any rate, there is nothing that disputes the explosive greatness of the 2011 Clayton Kershaw Atomic Refractor. It is sparkly in a sta...