Thanks, Teresa. Under your tutelage, I've become a complete and utter mileage whore. Every move I make (gassing up the car, paying my mobile phone bill, ordering flowers for my mother), I mentally calculate how many miles I'll earn and if I can somehow leverage that purchase into greater returns. I used to be an Amazon.com devotee. No more. Barnes and Nobles gets my bucks now because I can shop online through the United Mall and earn 3 miles for every dollar spent. When I sent flowers in my pre-whoredom days, I used 1-800-Flowers.com because I hold stock in the company. Dividends be damned. I'm all about FTD now. Fifteen miles for every dollar! The worst part of all of this is that I've let my desire to accrue miles drive my dining choices. You see, I'm trying to get to elite status in the Mileage Plus Dining program. That's the point at which you begin earning 10 miles for every dollar spent at a participating restaurant. Here in Augusta, we only have one participating restaurant. Roma's Pizza. You probably noticed a lot of pizza in the Today's Bites section of this web site over the past week. So now you know. This morning, Marian and I are trying to find our mojo so that we can hit the road to Columbia, SC, for a little shopping excursion. I run out here to the computer to check Mileage Plus participating restaurants. I'm shameless. What I find is pretty limited. Rio Nightlife and more than a half a dozen Sonic drive ins. I'm searching for the inner strength to rise above my lust for miles. If you see an extra long cheese coney and a blue coconut slush posted on Today's Bites later this evening, you'll know I failed.