176 Issues of Elegant Bride

At times of my life I have taken a lot of trips. Trips that have resulted in lots of hotel and air points.

But times change and in my case, my base of operations has changed frequently too. In my life, there have been sequences of changes that resulted in unforeseen consequences like flying 80 transatlantic legs on Virgin Atlantic. Other points from other times in my life, like when I apparently used to fly on Delta a lot, are less clear in my memory.

But today Delta found me again. And they said I had 35,216 points in my account. Hooray!

So as Delta flights are not part of my current repertoire, I began to look for alternative ways to spend my new-found wealth. I just figured out that with my 35,216 Delta miles from sometime in the 80's I could receive 70 years of Backpacker Magazine.

I could also get 537 issues of Barron’s. But I’ve never read Barron’s so that doesn’t sound good. How about 29 years of Business Week. I’ll be 61 and I hope at that time, I’m not reading Business Week.

I could have 176 issues of Elegant Bride, 70 years of Jane and 88 years of Latina Magazine. Just in case, I could get 50 years of Nursing Made Easy. Nineteen-and-a-half-years or 2,993 issues of The Wall Street Journal beckon.

I may have to quit work just to read my magazines.