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...