Wednesday, the mailbox contained:

• A plea from the Smithsonian
• A postcard that listed Travel and Learn Programs that will be offered at the University of Virginia Spring 2006
• 3 Christmas Cards

Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

* A plea from [Doctors Without Borders](http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org)
* An advertisement and coupon from [Cingular](http://www.cingular.com)
* A subscription offer from [U.S. News & World Report](http://www.usnews.com)
* A Christmas Card

Monday, the mailbox contained:

* January 2006 issue of [Scientific American](http://www.sciam.com) (Know Your DNA – Inexpensive gene readers will soon unlock the secrets in your personal double helix)
* January 2006 issue of [National Geographic](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine) (Our Grandest Canyon)
* January 2, 2006 issue of [Newsweek](http://newsweek.msnbc.com) (The Who’s Next Issue)
* January-February 2006 issue of [Utne](http://www.utne.com) (Calm In the Chaos – How Inner Peace Makes You Stronger)
* January 2006 issue of [Harper’s](http://www.harpers.org) (Improvised, Explosive, and Divisive – Searching in Vain for a Strategy in Iraq)
* January + February 2006 issue of [Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com) (From Freedom Fries to Funerals – How a Conservative Congressman Learned to Hate the War)
* December 10, 2005 issue of [Oncology Times](http://www.oncology-times.com) (From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor)

Saturday, the mailbox contained:

* January 2006 issue of [Better Homes and Gardens](http://www.bhg.com) (Wrap Yourself in red)
* A plea from [Oxfam America](http://www.oxfamamerica.org)
* A Christmas CD from [The tech Geek.com](http://www.thetechgeek.com)
* A DVD from [Netflix](http://www.netflix.com) – [Fat Albert](http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70018298)
* A pay stub

Friday, the mailbox contained:

* January/February 2006 issue of [Foreign Policy](http://www.foreignpolicy.com) (Hugo Boss – How Chavez is refashioning dictatorship for a democratic age)
* January 2006 issue of [Car and Driver](http://www.caranddriver.com) (Loose Cannons! – 3 Bullet Sedans in 500-HP Country)
* January/February 2006 issue of [Blender](http://www.blender.com) (Buh-Bye 2005)
* January 2006 issue of [Maxim](http://www.maximonline.com) (Filthy Harrys! America’s Ten Worst Cops of 2005)
* A plea from [Samaritan’s Purse](http://www.samaritanspurse.org)

Today, the mailbox contained:

• January 2006 issue of Southern Living (Quick & Easy Comfort Foods)
• January/February 2006 issue of Legal Affairs (Rewiring the Law)
• January/February 2006 issue of American Scientist (Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risk)
• December 23, 2005 issue of Sporting News (College Bowls Preview)
• December 2005 issue of the Roanoke Valley’s YMCA times (Members: We built new Ys and they came)
• A notice from Audible about changes to their website and subscription plans

Wednesday, the mailbox contained:

* December 19, 2005 issue of [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com) (American Viceroy – Zalmay Khalilzad’s mission in Iraq)
* October/November 2005 issue of [Seed](http://www.seedmagazine.com) (What Controversy?! – How Intelligent Design is Hijacking Science)
* January 2006 issue of [Consumer Reports](http://www.consumerreports.org) (Best phone & plan for you)
* A plea from [Van Hilleary](http://www.vanhilleary.com/) – a Republican from Tennessee who’s running for the U.S. Senate (He has Congressman Van Hilleary printed all over the letter and on the envelope, but he hasn’t been a Congressman since 1993. So, if you’re a Congressman for one 2-year period, does that mean you get addressed as Congressman for the rest of your life??)
* A card from the [Red Cross](http://www.redcross.org/) stating that I completed the Shelter Operations Course

Today the mailbox contained:

• February 2006 issue of Cuisine at home (warm & gooey Chocolate Bread Pudding)
• A 2006 garden calendar from Lowe’s
• An advertisement from Adelphia
• A subscription offer from every day Food
• A CD – Cake’s Pressure Chief
• A Book – John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

Monday, the mailbox contained:

• Winter 2005-06 issue of Ploughshares (Poems and stories edited by David St. John)
• December 19, 2005 issue of Newsweek (Bush’s World – The Isolated President: Can He Change?)
• January/February 2006 issue of Garden Gate (Show-Stopping Color)
• January 2006 issue of Martha Stewart Living (15 – Celebrate with us)
• November/December 2005 issue of Cook’s Illustrated (Herbed Roast Turkey – New 4-Step Method)
• January 2006 issue of Vegetarian Times (eat lite! no-guilt comfort food – hearty soups to rich desserts)
• January 2006 issue of Popular Science (Tomorrow’s Robot Army – Inside the Pentagon’s Plans for a Soldier-Free Battlefield)
• January 2006 issue of Automobile Magazine (Skyline GT-R – Nissan’s Supercar is Finally Coming to America)
• An Amazon Electronics Sale Catalog (The catalog states on the cover that the sale ends December 12 (today). They didn’t time the mailing of this catalog right, did they?)
• December 2005 issue of the American Girl catalog (My daughter loves her Samantha doll and has asked Santa for a bunch of stuff from this catalog.)
• An advertisement for Dell’s XPS line of computers
• A plea from Shriners Hospitals for Children
• A plea from the Natural Resources Defense Council
• A membership offer from the American Hiking Society
• Co-branded shipping boxes from Ebay and the Post Office
• AC/DC’s Bonfire

Saturday, the mailbox contained:

• December 19, 2005 issue of ESPN The Magazine (Little Brother No More – The Inside Story of Eli and Peyton)
• January 2006 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal (Programming Languages)
• An offer for AOL High Speed with Verizon DSL
• A plea from the World Wildlife Fund
• A rebate check from Samsung – that only took 4 months

Friday, the mailbox contained:

• December 5, 2005 issue of The New Yorker (Annals of National Security)
• November/December 2005 issue of Old Dominion Sierran (New Report Reveals Virginia Forests are Among America’s Most Endangered Species)
• An offer for DSL from Verizon
• A cookbook – Best Kept Secrets Of The South’s Best Cooks
• Another cookbook – Chocolate Fantasies
• A DVD for my daughter from Netflix – Raise Your Voice

Thursday, the mailbox contained:

* December 16, 2005 issue of [Sporting News](http://www.sportingnews.com) (BCS BLITZ!)
* January 2006 issue of [Smart Money](http://www.smartmoney.com) (Where To Invest 2006)
* December 2005 issue of [Nuts and Volts](http://www.nutsvolts.com) (The Flying Marbellos) – “The Poor Man’s CNC Milling Machine” article on page 52 looks interesting. I also noticed they’ve made the online version of the magazine free to print subscribers, and it uses the same interface that Make uses. They’re also offering the option to download the current issue, but it’s in mhtml format, which doesn’t work in Firefox. Why couldn’t they make the dowload a pdf???
* December 2005 issue of [Nursing2005](http://www.nursing2003.com/) (Focus on common eye emergencies)
* November/December 2005 [Amazon.com tools & hardware](http://www.amazon.com/tools) Catalog (110% lowest price guarantee plus free shipping on most orders over $25) – The 2 brands featured in the catalog were Porter Cable and Delta)
* An advertisement from Amrhein’s Jewelry – I was unable to find a website.
* A plea from [Goodwill Industries of the Valleys](http://www.goodwill-the-valleys.com/)
* A plea from the Roanoke [Rescue Mission](http://www.rescuemission.net)
* A CD – Highway 61 Revisited

UPS delivered some items from [Books-A-Million](http://www.booksamillion.com)

* October/November 2005 issue of [Ready Made](http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/mag?id=3340907440618&mid=0000006851)
* [Illicit](http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=3340907440618&pid=0385513925) (How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy)

Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

• December 2005 issue of budget Living (Holiday Chic Made Easy)
• January 2006 issue of Outside (Skeleton on the Mountain)
• December 12, 2005 issue of The New Yorker (Hogs Wild – They’re feral, destructive, and spreading)
• December 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (50 Inventions That Have Rocked the World)
• December 2005 Dell Catalog (XPS experience)
• A Harbor Freight Tools Sale Flyer
• A new ARRL membership card
• A plea from Blue Ridge Public Television
• A plea from Oxford American

Tuesday, the mailbox contained:

• January 2006 issue of Road & Track (Ford’s 475-bhp Shelby GT500 Convertible)
• January 2006 issue of Motor Trend (Car of the Year)
• January 2006 issue of Discover (Year in Science)
• November 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM Breakthrough Awards)
• December 2005 issue of American Journal of Nursing (Depression and Dispiritedness in Later Life)
• Volume 13, No. 4 issue of Virginia Nurses Today (A Call to Action)
• January 2006 issue of Highlights (This month’s LinkWord: hiccup)
• An advertisement for CounterSpy Enterprise software
• An advertisement from Duncan Pontiac GMC
• A subscription offer from Washington Monthly
• A membership offer from the Adventure Cycling Association
• A plea from Amnesty International
• A Christmas Card

Monday, the mailbox contained:

* December 12, 2005 issue of [Newsweek](http://newsweek.msnbc.com) (Women and Terror – Al Quaeda’s New Recruits)
* December 2005 issue of [Current History](http://www.currenthistory.com) (Global Trends, 2006)
* December 2005 issue of [Servo](http://www.servomagazine.com) (Winter Walkerland)
* January 2006 issue of [Linux Journal](http://www.linuxjournal.com) (Home Projects)
* November 25, 2005 issue of [Oncology Times](http://www.oncology-times.com) (New Potential Conflicts of Interest)
* [Jasco Uniform](http://www.jascouniform.com) Catalog
* Coupons and Recipes from [Kroger](http://www.kroger.com)
* A pair of platic scissors and an offer from [Vonage](http://www.vonage.com)
* A proxy from [Audubon](http://www.audubon.org)
* A plea from the [Ocean Conservancy](http://www.oceanconservancy.org)
* A plea from [Madd](http://www.madd.org)
* [Consumer Reports](http://www.consumerreports.org) Raffle Tickets
* A plea from the [Western Virginia Land Trust](http://www.westernvirginialandtrust.org)
* A letter from [Congressman Bob Goodlatte](http://www.house.gov/goodlatte) stating that he thinks the broadcast flag can be a useful tool to protect the intellectual property of digital broadcasters. 🙁
* Some books from [Bookpool](http://www.bookpool.com)
* [Using Moodle](http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596008635)
* [The Hacker Chronicles Kit](http://www.bookpool.com/sm/1597490466)