Night Owl Cards

Yesterday's Dodgers game went pretty well. Even in a 6-1 win, there were some disconcerting moments, but that's just the way it is in the postseason for me. How today's Game 2 is going I have no idea at this writing. I will be working during game time and that will cut down somewhat on the angst. Ignorance is a blissful fan. I'll just have to let Zack Greinke go out and do his thing without any help from me. How he'll survive, I don't know. If I wasn't working, I'd probably be doing something comforting to distract me from the game. My main source used to be eating. Food is a wonderful sedative during playoff time. But I don't do that anymore. Instead, I sort my baseball cards. This takes many forms during a game. Opening up a binder filled with Dodgers and painstakingly shifting cards over one pocket at a time and adding new ones in the proper spots. Or I could grab a set binder and just slip the needed card into the waiting empty pocket. S...

This month I passed my one-year anniversary of being on Listia. I only know this because they sent me some "Happy Listia Birthday" email and gave me some free listing thingy. I didn't pay attention to what it was exactly, but I think it's one of those special auctions that pops up in the blue boxes at the top of a listings page ... you know, the boxes I ignore. None of it matters because I'm doing less and less on Listia these days. I don't really have the time for it presently, and the "good buys" on the site are getting rarer and rarer. There have always been goofballs on there that think an unopened pack of 1990 Donruss starts at 2,000 credits, but even the rational people seem to be starting every bid at 499, and unless it's a card I really, really need, I'm not bidding 499 to start. None of my auctions on there have started at more than 100 credits, and I've done just fine. Out of 50 or so auctions I've put up, only one di...