Night Owl Cards

  Here we are, three days into the new year and I've forgotten again the series that I last posted three days into last year.   Maybe this series wasn't meant to be. I've forgotten it twice now and it's been so buried in my subconscious that when I'm desperately searching for "which blog series can I update that I didn't just do?" it never occurred to me to do the one I haven't done for a year!   But I guess that's what early January is for, taking stock of past blog posts.   For those who don't remember (like me), the Joy of a Subset series is my attempt to review the traditional subsets of my youth, mostly from Topps, which put together all kinds of subsets in the '70s and '80s, stuff like record breakers and highlights and league leaders, etc.   I've already reviewed the 1975 Highlights set and the 1976 league leaders set . Today I'm staying with 1976 and looking at a set that I should have reviewed in my second Joy of a...

  This has been a weird holiday week as far as working my job. In general, holidays don't mean much in the journalism world, the news doesn't stop and newspapers come out every day (mostly). But my paper has always been good about holidays and I often am able to take some time off. Not this year. I worked on Christmas. Not unusual but not ritual either. I also worked on New Year's Day. Both of those are very common days to have off in the general work world. Also I did a little work on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve even though I was technically off. Meanwhile, my work computer decided to stop working two days before Christmas. Apparently it wanted a vacation, too. And good luck getting someone to look at it during the holiday week. I've been working from home ever since. I could go on and on but to sum up, I feel like I'm the only one working the last 10 days. I'm a little sick of it. So what we have here is a lazy write-up on some cards that came to my d...