So here I am. Sitting by the computer late at night, sleep amiss, waiting for screams that may not come. Maybe she'll actually sleep this time. Maybe I should try to get some too.It's been five or six weeks since I last logged on to facebook, which is a simultaneously stressful and calming feeling. There was too much going on at work and home to enjoy the notifications, so I opted to cut it out for some days. The urge to return gradually just vanished. It was not really a conscious move or a statement of any kind, rather a realization that being continously connected took more energy than it gave. It might change in the future, but for now I find myself perfectly satisfied with e-mail and a phone number as the non-physical contact points.Anyway, sitting awake, looking through the binders. I like the binders and the cards they hold. Tangible stuff, building blocks that would eventually shape my spare time and friendships in ways I could never imagine when they were created in 93/94. Or in 1992.Some people here may know that I collect Chaos Orbs. A "global set", as one-card collecting is mostly known as. One of the more usual reactions when people hear this is "A global set of only three cards then? Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and only English language. I guess five with IE and CE. Can't be that interesting."Well, it kinda is. I have learned more about the history of Magic trying to collect Chaos Orbs than anything else I've done with in this hobby. And looking through the binder this night, with the beginnings of something Magic in the next room, three cards jump out at me.For almost every Magic player in the world, these three pieces of paper mean nothing. For a tiny fraction, the first of the three may be something familiar. For the smallest handful, the second two could actually be the most interesting ones.Finding these took me years. I could probably talk for hours about these three pieces of paper. The three Chaos Orbs that existed before Alpha went to the printers.I won't though, at least not right now. Now I'll try and catch some sleep. Feel free let me know if you want to hear more about a particular one of these, and I'll try to make something coherent of the stories I've been told.I wish you all great summer nights until then.