Night Owl Cards

    My blog reaches around the world and I'm pretty proud of that, but really the most important area for it to reach, as far as my collection, is Southern California.   Thanks to people from across the nation knowing me as a Dodger fan, I've been able to obtain items that usually would be off-limits to me, a lifelong Northeast resident living in a small, remote city. I've received lots of Dodgers items sold exclusively at Dodger Stadium, a place I've only seen in pictures and video screens.   A couple of weeks ago, my all-time favorite player, Ron Cey, was honored as a "Legend of Dodger Baseball," a fairly recent award the organization has presented to former players who have made an impact on the team but are not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.   Due to time constraints -- and nearly 3,000 miles between me and the event -- I couldn't be there in person to bestow my thanks. I knew that the team would be handing out a Cey bobblehead to fans. No matter, I...

I used to have a co-worker who took issue with weather terms such as "wind chill" and "heat index". Any attempt by a meteorologist to express what the weather "feels like" over and above the measured temperature would cause him to break out into a sarcastic rant. I could see where he was coming from. If it's 78 degrees outside, then how can it be 84? Aren't you just making yourself more miserable by saying, "yeah, but it FEELS like 84"? Hot is hot and cold is cold, right? But I get what weather folks are trying to do, too. Obviously, moisture in the air and wind speed make things more miserable or more pleasant to some people (depending on the season and the person's tolerance). That's why "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" has been beaten to death all these years. I happen to live in an area that gets humidity. There's a lot of water where I live. If it gets hot, it's probably going to get h...

I found one of those pink slips in my mailbox earlier this week that said there was a package waiting for me. It took me a day to get down there, but this giant thing finally made it into the doorway. The box is from Rob, known as steelehere on this blog and on his old one that stopped operating some time ago. I've shown you some of the things he sent me in the last two posts. He said he needed to downsize and thought I might be able to use some of the items inside either for my own collection or trade material. Well, here's the thing. I just got back from another trip to the post office to send off a few card packages. It took me weeks to get those packages assembled, packaged and shipped. And there are stacks of trades behind that. I have a list of 20-25 people long. I really don't have the time for any more trades at this particular point. So I decided a contest might be the way to go. I took some things out of the box that will be good for some trades in proces...