Got three pieces of mail today.

1. offer for a Platinum Visa card from Fleet,
2. letter from MBNA upgrading my existing Platinum Visa card to the new Quantum Visa,
3. offer for CitiBank's new Diamond Preferred MasterCard.

I kinda felt sorry for the guys at Fleet. “You’re still selling Platinum?!? Got any eight-track tapes to go with that?”

Could be worse, I suppose. Last year they replaced all my credit cards with new ones that had American flags on them. I think they were trying to tell me that I had money to burn.