Night Owl Cards

  I didn't mean to duck out on you and turn what I speculated about at the end of Monday's post into something immediate. But that's what work can do to you these days and why I wrote what I did Monday. Yesterday I drove nearly 200 miles so I could interview someone for a story. You're asking why. Well, the reasons are: 1) Our newspaper coverage area is insane for being east of the Mississippi; 2) Young people don't like to talk on the phone anymore; 3) People no longer want to get their information from professionals. Hey, you asked. I've been driving and writing and then interviewing some more and writing some more, and that's why I wasn't writing here. But I am now.  On long trips I like to see if I can find some cards anywhere. I stopped by a Walmart in the sticks. And, lo, I found some blasters of Series 2, a day or two after release even! Normally I wouldn't be that interested in Series 2 -- there are plenty of posts of me bagging on it in yea...

Yesterday was my only real day off during this two-week period in mid-March that is the very epicenter of March Madness. I tried to enjoy the day because I knew I wasn't going to get another one for awhile. But, of course, Daylight Savings Time cut into it and given that I had to work very late Saturday night, I woke up at 1:05 p.m. to start my "day off." Already my day was running out! I could sense that I needed to open some baseball cards to relieve some stress. This is the only time that I wish I could be one of those collectors with stockpiles of random unopened packs. But I have no unopened packs in the house so I had to get some. The thought of going to Walmart or Target on a Sunday is extremely unappealing (anytime you read about me buying cards at a big box store the purchase did NOT happen on the weekend). That left the various chain drugstores, Walgreen's, Rite-Aid. But they didn't have anything. So, I headed for the other side of town and the ...