Night Owl Cards

I've been watching "classic" episodes of Sesame Street on Netflix lately. Is that weird? Should a 48-year-old guy be doing that? Is this a mid-life crisis? Anyway, it doesn't seem weird to me. I've been enjoying seeing skits and puppets that I haven't seen since I was 8. And, while I was watching it, I came up with the perfect example of my approach to collecting at the start of the year. As I mentioned before, I don't really set goals with collecting. I have a general idea of what I like and then I go after it. I don't want to tie myself down in a hobby that's supposed to be fun. Cash flow will take care of that soon enough. I'm gonna have fun while I have money and get what I want. In short, my collecting goal in the coming year is this: Does that sound a little like the Cookie Monster? It does to me. He knows what he wants, cookies. He accumulates cookies any way he can. It doesn't matter the time or place. Collecting coo...

I think I've mentioned this before, but there are six very large trees near my home. Two are directly in front of the house. Three others are across the street. The other is next door. At this time of year, I laugh at the idea of a gym membership, grab my horribly cheap lawn rake and rake, rake, rake my way to fitness by forming gigantic leaf piles over and over again. Where I live, you have the option of raking your leaves into the street. But the street cleaner shows up maybe once a month and with the amount of leaves that collect around here, you'd be creating a driving hazard. So I bag as many leaves as I can. And bag, and bag and bag. When I first moved into the house, I would count how many bags I put to the curb, but the novelty wore off. So now I just rake, bag, rake, bag, rake, bag ... Crap, I'm out of bags. Now, I could go down to the plaza a few blocks away where I could get bags at four different locations, maybe more. Or ... I could go across tow...