Night Owl Cards

I do a lot of writing. I was just thinking about this last night. It's not a big revelation. I've known about it for years. It's what I do. I write at work. It's a good 70 percent of my job. When I come home, I write on this blog, and you know how long those posts go. When I'm not writing on this blog, I write on one set blog or the other . When I'm not doing that, I'm writing out lists or ideas or addresses. Write, write, write. So there are times -- even though I enjoy writing more than 95 percent of what's available to me in the world -- when I just don't want to pen a single letter. Welcome to one of those times. Don't worry. I'm going to write. I don't believe in skipping a day just because "I don't feel like it." But what does one do when he doesn't want to write but insists on writing anyway? He does a list, silly. You've seen all of those lists on my blog. They're just a smoke screen for...

I've seen a few people lately split their card loot packages into two parts. They receive a way cool packagio of cards and can't possibly assemble all the goodies into a single writing. Normally, I don't like doing that. One card package, one post, that's my motto. OK, it's not my motto, and I've split up card packages in multiple posts before, but I really try to avoid it. I don't feel it's necessary to drag out a single envelope. People have short attention spans. People on the internet have even shorter attention spans. ... wait, what was I just writing about? But I'm making an exception here, because -- yes -- the package that was sent by my good buddie Dave was tremendous, but also because it wasn't one package, but two packages. And the packages came on different days, three days apart. And the second package (clearly marked Package #2 on the note inside) arrived first. It was all mixed up. Like the chronology in Kill Bill (you wer...