"I like trains a lot"

Today in my mailbox were two copies of the May issue of Trains magazine, with identical address labels and everything.

This almost makes up for the fact that, although my MacWorld address label claims the last issue on my subscription is February 2005, the last issue I got was February 2004, and I just got a "we're sorry to see you go/final notice" subscription letter in the mail. Their web site claims that the first issue on my current subscription term was March 2004, and the final issue should be February 2005, but it also claims that my subscription status is "awaiting payment."

Now, I just did a search in Quicken, and I apparently haven't paid them anything since 2001, and that was probably for a 3-year subscription, so I'm probably in the wrong here...but then why would the expiration date on my address label have changed from February 2004 to February 2005 as of the December 2003 issue? It's a mystery. (And incidentally, that's why I didn't do anything about the previous 47 pieces of mail they sent me to get me to renew my subscription; I'd look at the address label and think, "Why are they sending me this now? It's over a year until my subscription expires.")