I didn't grow up in a coffee family. My dad would have a cup once in a great while, usually when company was over. I associated coffee-drinking with the older generation. My grandmother, especially, drank coffee with just about every meal and two of her many quirks included dunking pizza in her coffee and stating "they're trained not to look at you" when she couldn't get a waitress' attention for a second cup of coffee. That's who drank coffee as far as I knew -- my grandmother, the women she played cards with, and others from her generation. I never drank coffee and only recently have picked up a cold coffee habit (I dislike hot drinks). And for decades, all those things that went hand-in-hand with the drink -- mugs, stirrers, sugar cubes, little milk pitchers and, often, cigarettes, were foreign to me. At the top of the list was something called "half and half". For years I didn't know what that was. Even when I worked as a bus bo...
Blogger may be trying to kill off our card blogs but it can't kill off the Blog Bat-Around. This is the second one I've done this year! I have a little window of time today that I didn't expect to find, so this is a nice, quick topic to address as year 19 gets under way. Torren' Up Cards touched off the Blog Bat-Around by listing the three hobby accomplishments that make him the most proud . He should be proud, too. I can't even conceive of doing most of the card things he mentioned. I have some obvious ones myself, though. I'm going to mention just the three, though I could do much more if I thought about it a little. Here they are: 1. Ran a card blog for 18 years and counting What's the record for consecutive years operating a blog? I certainly don't know. In terms of sports card blogs I know I don't have the record, there are a handful that started before I did and are still going in some form or another. But the part that make...