Monday, the mailbox contained:

* November/December 2005 issue of [CHOW](http://www.chowmag.com) (Bring On The Holidays!)
* December/January 2006 issue of [Cook’s Country](http://www.cookscountry.com) (Easy Holiday Menu)
* February 2006 issue of [Consumer Reports](http://www.consumerreports.org) (Start the Year Right)
* February 2006 issue of [Discover](http://www.discover.com) (The New Planet Machine Can It Find Another Earth?)
* January 16, 2006 issue of [Newsweek](http://newsweek.msnbc.com) (Sharon’s Shadow – What Now for Israel?)
* January 10, 2006 issue of [Oncology Times](http://www.oncology-times.com) (End-of-Life Discussions with Children)
* A plea from the [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee](http://www.dscc.org)
* A plea from the [Sierra Club](http://www.sierraclub.org)
* A subscription offer for the [DRIP Investor](http://www.dripinvestor.com)

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Saturday, the mailbox contained:

* Winter 2005 issue of [Granta](http://www.granta.com) (The View from Africa)
* February 2006 issue of [Outside](http://www.outsideonline.com) (The U.S. Ski Team’s Return to Glory)
* February 2006 issue of [Automobile Magazine](http://www.automobilemag.com) (Camaro)
* A subscription offer for [Birds and Blooms](http://www.birdsandblooms.com)
* 2 pleas from the [National Arbor Day Foundation](http://www.arborday.org)
* The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark: Down the Columbia to Fort Clatsop (Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark)

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Thursday, the mailbox contained:

* February 2006 issue of [Road & Track](http://www.roadandtrack.com) (Dodge Challenger Returns)
* February 2006 issue of [Car And Driver](http://www.caranddriver.com) (5 Everyday Heroes)
* February 2006 issue of [Motor Trend](http://www.motortrend.com) (American Idols – Challenger and Imperial)
* December 2005 issue of [Oncology Net Guide](http://www.oncng.com) (Was It Worth It?)
* February 2006 issue of [Highlights](http://www.highlights.com) (This month’s LinkWord: giggle)
* January 2006 issue of [Dance](http://www.dancemagazine.com) (25 To Watch This Year)
* January 2006 issue of [Sierra Club News](http://virginia.sierraclub.org/roanoke) (Earth Friendly Friday – January 13)
* 2006 Spring [Gurney’s](http://www.gurneys.com) Catalog
* A plea from [Mill Mountain Zoo](http://www.mmzoo.org)
* An offer from [Nationwide](http://www.nationwide.com)
* An advertisement for [Mantis Tillers](http://mantisgardentools.com/home.asp?)
* An offer from the Smart Reader Rewards Book Club

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Thursday, the mailbox contained:

* February 2006 issue of [Road & Track](http://www.roadandtrack.com) (Dodge Challenger Returns)
* February 2006 issue of [Car And Driver](http://www.caranddriver.com) (5 Everyday Heroes)
* February 2006 issue of [Motor Trend](http://www.motortrend.com) (American Idols – Challenger and Imperial)
* December 2005 issue of [Oncology Net Guide](http://www.oncng.com) (Was It Worth It?)
* February 2006 issue of [Highlights](http://www.highlights.com) (This month’s LinkWord: giggle)
* January 2006 issue of [Dance](http://www.dancemagazine.com) (25 To Watch This Year)
* January 2006 issue of [Sierra Club News](http://virginia.sierraclub.org/roanoke) (Earth Friendly Friday – January 13)
* 2006 Spring [Gurney’s](http://www.gurneys.com) Catalog
* A plea from [Mill Mountain Zoo](http://www.mmzoo.org)
* An offer from [Nationwide](http://www.nationwide.com)
* An advertisement for [Mantis Tillers](http://mantisgardentools.com/home.asp?)
* An offer from the Smart Reader Rewards Book Club

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Wednesday, the mailbox contained:

* January 2006 issue of [Circuit Cellar](http://www.circuitcellar.com) (Internet & Connectivity)
* Nursing2006 [Career Directory](http://www.nursingcenter.com)
* 2006 [Miller Nurseries](http://www.millernurseries.com) Catalog
* A subscription offer from [Esquire](http://www.esquire.com)
* A subscription offer from [Domino](http://www.dominomag.com)
* A subscription offer from [Time](http://www.time.com)
* A plea from the [Special Olympics](http://www.specialolympics.org)
* A plea from the [ASPCA](http://www.aspca.org)
* An offer from [Weight Watchers](http://www.weightwatchers.com)
* A notice from Publishers Clearing House
* Ajax in Action
* From Mist and Stone: The Folklore of the Celts and Vikings
* Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America)

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Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

* February 2006 issue of [National Geographic Adventure](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure) (Wild Hawaii! – 36 Amazing Island Adventures)
* Winter 2006 issue of [National Parks](http://www.npca.org) (Saving Mesa Verde)
* January 2006 issue of [QST](http://www.arrl.org) (Annual Vintage Issue)
* January|February 2006 issue of [This Old House](http://www.thisoldhouse.com) (Small Space Solutions)
* January 2006 issue of [The Sun](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/) (A More Perfect Union – Tom Hayden On Democracy and Redemption)
* January/February 2006 issue of [Nursing Made Incredibly Easy](http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/nie/home.htm) (Too pooped to pump – Chronic heart failure)
* January 2006 issue of the [American Journal of Nursing](http://www.ajnonline.com) (Obesity: America’s Epidemic)
* A plea from the [National Parks Conservation Association](http://www.npca.org) (Condemn America’s National Parks? Not if we have anything to say about it!)
* A plea from [Defenders of Wildlife](http://www.defenders.org) (A Fight For Survival – Will You Help?)
* A plea from the [National Wildlife Federation](http://www.nwf.org)
* A plea from the [Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center](http://www.mskcc.org)
* An advertisement for National Geographic Slipcase sets
* [Bob Goodlatte’s](http://www.house.gov/goodlatte) 2005 Year-End Report
* A t-shirt from [CounterSpy](http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpy.cfm)
* UPS delivered a pay stub and a Christmas Bonus
* DHL delivered some IA-32 Devloper books from [Intel](http://www.intel.com)

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Saturday, the mailbox contained:

* A subscription offer for [Family Handyman](http://www.rd.com/familyhandyman/action.do?categoryId=6000&siteId=1111)
* A subscription offer for [The Progressive](http://www.progressive.org)
* A subscription offer for [Virginia Wildlife](http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/va-wildlife/)
* A plea from [Pacifica Radio](http://www.pacifica.org)
* (2) [2004 MBIT Competition](http://2004mbit.gbadev.org/) Gameboy Advance Cartridges

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Friday, the mailbox contained:

• December 2005 / January 2006 issue of SEED (Year In Science 2005)
• Early Spring 2006 L.L.Bean Catalog
• A subscription offer for ARTnews
• Coupons from Mail Marketing Systems
• Coupons from Mailbox Savings
• A book –
  National Geographic Complete Birds of North America
• A sweepstakes notice from National Magazine Exchange
  

  The return address was: NME 16120 US Hwy. 19 N Clearwater, FL 33764

  The message was: CALL 1-888-227-0661 ID # 507241084 Dear Steve, We are trying to reach you regarding your $2,100,000.00 sweepstakes ID # 507241084. Please call us at the above number. This is a free call. Sincerely – Pat Haines, Sales Representative

  This is apparently another magazine scam.

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Thursday, the mailbox contained:

* January 2006 issue of [PC Magazine](http://www.pcmag.com) (Excellence)
* The Premier issue of [ROBOT](http://www.botmag.com) (Mythbusters Test Vex Robot System)
* January / February 2006 issue of [Foreign Affairs](http://www.foreignaffairs.org) (Women, Islam, and the New Iraq)
* December 2005 issue of [RN](http://www.rnweb.com) (RSV – Protecting the littlest patients)
* December 25, 2005 issue of [Oncology Times](http://www.oncology-times.com) (Stopping Clinical Trials Early for Perceived Benefit)
* January – February 2006 issue of [INRADIO](http://www.inradio.com) (Hearsay)
* A [Chadwick’s](http://www.chadwicks.com) Catalog
* January 2006 [American Girl](http://www.americangirl.com) Catalog
* A plea from the [ACLU](http://www.aclu.org)
* A gown that we bought from Ebay for one of my daughter’s dolls

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Wednesday, the mailbox contained:

* January / February 2006 issue of [Ode](http://www.odemagazine.com) (Could homeopathy prevent a pandemic?)
* January-February 2006 issue of [Audubon](http://www.audubon.org) (Don’t Mess With This Bird – How Challenger Is Winning the Hearts and Minds of Americans)
* Winter 2006 issue of the [Kenyon Review](http://www.kenyonreview.org) (Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome)
* Spring 2006 [Stark Bro’s](http://www.starkbros.com) Fruit Tree and Landscaping Catalog
* Spring 2006 [Tafford](http://www.tafford.com) and [ScrubsXpress](http://www.scrubsxpress) Catalog
* Fall 2005 [Flaghouse Special Populations](http://www.specialpopulations.com/) Catalog
* A [Harbor Freight Tools](http://www.harborfreight.com) Sale Flyer
* Coupons from [Dell](http://www.dell.com)
* An advertisement from [Duncan Ford Mercury Chrysler Dodge Jeep](http://www.duncanrockymount.com/) in Rocky Mount, VA
* A subscription offer from [Condè Nast Traveler](http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/)
* A subscription offer from the [New York Review of Books](http://www.nybooks.com)
* A flyer from [The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training](http://www.teamintraining.org/vam)
* A plea from the [Audubon Society](http://www.audubon.org)
* A new battery for my [XM MyFi](http://shop.xmradio.com/detail.aspx?pid=3&cat=7) (Apparently, there has been a [recall](http://www.batteryrecall.com))

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Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

* November-December 2005 issue of [TechNet](http://www.technetmagazine.com) (Serving The Web)
* January 2006 issue of [Nuts And Volts](http://www.nutsvolts.com) (Build Your Own CanadArm)
* December 2005/January 2006 issue of [Technology Review](http://www.technologyreview.com/) (The Internet is Broken – It’s time to replace it. There was also a notice stating that this magazine’s production schedule is switching to bimonthly from monthly)
* February 2006 issue of [Psychology Today](http://www.psychologytoday.com) (Superjerks: A Field Guide to Narcissists)
* January 2006 issue of [Poetry](http://www.poetrymagazine.org) (Featuring Thylias Moss, W.S. Di Piero, Louise Glück)
* January 2006 issue of [Nursing2006](http://www.nursing2003.com/) (How rapid response teams save lives)
* A [Ramsey Electronics](http://www.ramseykits.com) Catalog (The 2006 Goodies Are Here!)
* An advertisement for the Folk Remedy Encyclopedia
* A plea from the [ACLU](http://www.aclu.org)
* A plea from the [Rails-to-Trails Conservancy](http://www.railtrails.org)
* A box of Christmas presents from my brother-in-law

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Saturday, the mailbox contained:

* January-February 2006 issue of [No Depression](http://www.nodepression.net) (Joe Henry switches his focus to soul)
* Winter 2006 issue of [The Virginia Quarterly Review](http://www.vqronline.org/) (A Special Report: AIDS In Africa)
* December 2005 issue of [Java Developer’s Journal](http://jdj.sys-con.com/) (Table Layout – Replace your GridBagLayout code)
* January 2006 issue of [Servo](http://www.servomagazine.com) (FIRST at Last! – 2006 Season Kicks Off With Over 1,100 Teams)
* December 2005 issue of [Save the Bay](http://www.cbf.org) (2005 State of the Bay)
* A flyer advertising the [Kenyon Review Writers Workshop](http://www.kenyonreview.org)
* A packet from the [Girl Scouts](http://www.gsvsc.org)
* G. Gordon Liddy’s 2006 [Stacked and Packed Calendar](http://www.stackedandpacked.com “Caution – Women With Guns”) (They do Secret Santa at my wife’s work, and apparently the person who’s receiving this gift is a big fan of the G. Man.)

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Friday, the mailbox contained:

• January 2006 issue of Wired (50 Best Bots Ever)
• January-February 2006 issue of TechNet (SQL Server 2005 Arrives)
• January 2, 2006 issue of ESPN The Magazine (The Colts are the best team in the NFL – Why isn’t Tony Dungy getting the credit?)
• Winter 2006 issue of Biography (Rollergirls – You’ve Been Warned)
• January/February 2006 issue of National Geographic Traveler (Let’s Go! – Have Camera, Will Travel)
• January/February 2006 issue of Sierra (Sebastião Salgado’s Galápagos)
• January 2006 issue of Smithsonian (Lincoln’s Momentous Decision)
• December 26, 2005 & January 2, 2006 issue of The New Yorker (International Fiction Issue)
• A calendar from the City of Salem
• An advertisement from Access National Mortgage
• A subscription offer from Reader’s Digest
• A plea from the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
• A Christmas Card

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Thursday, the mailbox contained:

• January 2006 issue of Popular Mechanics (The Rebirth of Rail – Super Trains – Faster, Smarter Stronger)
• December 30, 2005 issue of Sporting News (Sportsman of the Year – Matt Leinart)
• February 2006 issue of Real Simple (Your Guide to eating right:  5 easy everyday techniques)
• A Sharpie mini
• A book from Claritin – Casey’s Allergies

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