Night Owl Cards

I used to enter a few box breaks. By "a few" I mean maybe two a year. Now, I almost never enter a box break. I'm not entirely sure why. Commitment issues probably. No, actually I know the main reason is money. I never have it. I must carve out specific moments in time, scheduled waaaaay in advance, in which I may spend money on cards. I can't let a box break announced out of nowhere upset my precarious financial situation. But what about free? A free box break? Oh, yes, I have time in my schedule for that. Colbey of Cardboard Collections recently decided to give away two boxes of 2016 Donruss Optic out of the goodness of his heart. Well, well! Twenty-four packs of Optic! That's an eyeful! Optic is key because all the shiny detracts from the absence of logos. I don't notice quite as much that the players are wearing sanitation jumpers when everything is so bright and lustrous. And even though I had completed the Dodgers base set from that year of ...

As a few of you know, COMC is holding several "challenges" to help recatalog their inventory of cards. I'm more than happy to help COMC because, from the beginning, I've found it the easiest way for me to obtain cards online. Also, I get the feeling that Beckett doesn't like COMC very much, so that's more inspiration for me. The challenges are pretty tedious -- name the team, name the card number, etc. -- but if I have the time, and I turn on my tunes, I can whip through a handful of challenges in a single sitting until insane boredom hits me. The best part of the challenges is you accumulate store credit by doing them. Before I knew it, I had a healthy amount of "found money," and I decided to go shopping. I spent a little bit on my still unannounced card contest winner and then determined how I'd divide up the rest. I decided I would devote them to Dodger cards that I'd never think of to buy online, or cards that I didn't eve...