It's pretty cold up here, but the snow isn't around, the roads are pretty clear, and there is no more pre-holiday stuff to keep me busy around the house. Hey, that sounds like a road trip to me! Well, I swung up north to a bunch of places to see what was what, and results were mixed. Where I expected to get new cards, I didn't, and where I didn't, I did! At North Star in Bowler, they have made a major revamping of the card front, replacing the old green card with a nice colorful design. At the nearby Menominee Casino in Keshena, the new Bingo cards that were announced a while ago on Scott's board are not being issued yet as the computer system over in the bingo building is not quite set up yet. Stopped at Northern Lights in Carter, but same old, same old there. When I got all the way up to Chip-In Island casino up in Harris, MI I was hoping to see the new high level cards that were announced in their last players newsletter as coming in January. But they aren't out yet, and they are issuing blank whites (name and number get printed on the front, nothing but a magnetic strip on the back) for now until they get the "new system" going. Guess that means the basic cards may also change when the high levels start being used. They have used blank whites up there before, when they re-ordered. Final stop when heading south for home was the massive Oneida casinos in Green Bay. (Two big buildings on either side of the Radisson Hotel by the airport, and a medium size satelitte casino in a mall a few miles north.) They have redone slightly the front and back of their cards to reflect the fact that the punch readers are all gone, and the don't have to leave the upper left corner open for the holes. I have some of each (not many) for trading.