Like most people, I get a ton of junk mail. My girlfriend managed to get her name on a ton of catalogue mailing lists, so I get like two of those on an average day, and she doesn’t even live here now! Plus, we are both fairly recent college graduates, so we average two or three card offers each per day plus weekly solicitations from our respective universities. When I check the mail these days, the ratio of junk to good stuff is easily 10:1.
So imagine my excitement when I retrieved the mail the other day to find four pieces of mail and FOUR CHECKS! I hit the quadfecta! One was payment for my July 2+2 article, two were from relatives wishing me a happy birthday, and one was courtesy of the donkeys at Full Tilt Poker wishing me a very very happy birthday!