Night Owl Cards

  I slept 9-and-a-half hours last night/this morning. I don't even come close to that kind of sleep most days now. Probably average around 7.   The combination of the World Series and my cold shredded my sleep cycle all last week, and Sunday night was the first chance for real rest. Not only was I coming off the hangover of the Dodgers' Game 7 victory but the Bills had their biggest game of the season thus far, beating the hated Chiefs in another tense affair. We can't space this stuff out a little more, sports leagues??   I woke up today feeling better than I had in more than a week. I still don't think I'm quite there yet (see: coughing fit just 10 minutes ago), and with that amount of sleep today, I had barely any time to do anything before having to work.   A package from Dime Box Nick has been waiting for my words for 10 days now and I'm finally squeezing it in right now. As you know, Nick stopped writing on his blog nearly a year ago, but this is the seco...

I've been in the card blogging game now for quite awhile. I've passed the one-year, three-year and five-year thresholds that seem to weed out the, well, fill in the blank ______________ (less dedicated, less foolhardy). I've traded through the mail with literally hundreds of people and received all kinds of packages, from single cards to surprisingly large boxes that cost $20 to send. I've appreciated every last one and every last card. Still, even after seven years, there are new people with cards who pop up all the time. For instance, there is Brian from Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary . Quite a few of you have traded with him already, multiple times in fact. But I travel at a much slower pace and it's taken me all this while to arrange a deal. You might think that since I've transacted with so many different people that everyone tends to blend in and I can't distinguish one package from the next. Nope. Each one has their own identi...