Night Owl Cards

  I did one of these last year, on the exact same date, in fact. It's a nice numbers-driven look at the performance of the blog in the past year. It was inspired by Diamond Jesters, who evaluated his blog in the same way last year.   I know I just did a year-end review a week ago, but that was a lot of words and this involves waaaaaaaay less picture-taking. I need more breathers these days.   So let's look at the numbers:   Blog overview: I am in my 18th year of running this blog. I also run the 1993 Upper Deck blog (very casually, if I may add). This is my 5,876th post on NOC. If I continue to write even an average number of posts I will hit post 6,000 this year.   Team-set goals: I continue to collect the Dodgers base sets for the major sets that come out. I'm less enthusiastic about stuff like Chrome but I will eventually get those team sets done, too. As for inserts and parallels and online issues, I only add what appeals to me, and I'm doing it less and le...

  We're getting our first snow of the season today. The good news is November is almost over before we saw snow, which is pretty unusual. The bad news is it's lake-effect snow, on the holiday, and why couldn't it have snowed on Nov. 15th when no one was visiting anything? But we'll get over it, we always do. It's nice to be inside with no responsibilities and cards to pass the time. Today I've been sorting the bunches of cards I received from Johnny's Trading Spot a couple of weeks ago. That always demands some open time in my schedule so I can squint at the copyrights on the back for the cards I don't know. He's always unearthing something I've never heard of. The box arrival was actually signaled a few days earlier with a thank you note and three cards for playing one of Johnny's guessing games recently. I was mystified by the envelope because I didn't remember participating, but it turns out I had, just poorly and wanted to forget abo...