Night Owl Cards

If you've been following this blog since the beginning, you may have noticed a pattern through the years. On Night Owl Cards, the spring/summer is a happy time of baseball viewing and baseball card buying. The early fall is a time of fretting over my favorite team. The late fall is a time of being broke. And March is a time of having no time to do a damn thing. In other words, I repeat myself. A lot. So, while I'm in this endless time loop, I might as well do what the time loop says to do and tell you how far behind I am. I'm way behind in getting cards together for certain people. Nachos Grande, Cardboard Collections, All Your Base Cards Belong To Us, My Past Time ... I Love It, Mark's Ephemera, and several others, your cards are in assembly and whenever I get a chance to hit the store, I'll grab some packaging material. Then, another waiting period will commence until I can get to a post office. I'm way behind in figuring out if I have trade materia...

I know what you are thinking: "Is this the kind of trade post history that will affect me? Or is this only some sort of personal milestone for Night Owl that I don't care about in the least?" Ah, my dear reader, that is something I won't reveal until the end of the post. But first you must get through a rather hefty trade post in which I regale you with the tale of multiple transactions. No fair scrolling to the bottom. That's the tactic of weenie blog readers. And you're not a weenie are you? Besides, Santa is watching. So be good. I have several stacks of cards that have been waiting patiently to show their faces on the blog. So, let's get to it: CARDS FROM: Dan of It's Like Having My Own Card Shop FAVORITE CARD FROM PACKAGE: Ted Lilly gold card I received some cards out of the blue from Dan. Well, actually, they weren't out of the blue. Once upon a time I had expressed interest in the Lilly gold card and then promptly forgot abou...