Night Owl Cards

By next month, I will experience something for the first time in 28 years that most people experience every single week. I will experience a weekend as everyone else knows it. My hours are changing at work. For the first time since I started my career in sports journalism, I will be off on Saturdays and Sundays. I know this is no big deal for most people, but in my job, you just don't get Saturdays off. Unless I've been on vacation, I've worked just about every Saturday for the last 20-plus years. If you throw in the part-time jobs I worked after getting out of high school -- all of which required you to work most Saturdays -- then I haven't enjoyed Saturdays off on a consistent basis since my senior year in high school. I tried to pinpoint the period when I enjoyed a weekend as about 80-90 percent of the country does. I came up with early July of 1983. That's the last time when Saturday didn't mean one of the busiest days of the week. So, this, obv...

I am pleased to say that I have figured out a way to win card contests again. It was getting a little scary there for awhile. Months and months without receiving free cards. How is one supposed to go on? But in a short period of time, I've weaseled cards out of four contests. I don't even think I won all four, but I'm still getting cards. That's how the magical, mystical card blog world rolls. The cards from the first contest winnings have been sitting patiently for some time now. I think I've been avoiding them because I don't want to bring up the ugliness of forgetting who sent the cards. Remember this card? I displayed it on a long post of puzzlement in which I had no idea who sent it. Well, thankfully, Dan from The Other World alerted me that, duh, he sent the cards, and, duh, they were from a contest he's running, and, duh, you entered the contest, so, duh, you should remember. But he said it much more nicely. Dan also mentioned th...