So I just took a look at the magazines that have arrived in the last month or two, and thought I’d post an update.

I was, you may recall, involuntarily subscribed to Forbes, Yachting, ESPN: the Magazine, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Chevy High Performance.

Yachting is still coming — it was a two-year subscription and runs through next June. Generally I still go through an issue in maybe five minutes, but there was a fluke a couple of months back, and one issue was fascinating, with a whole bunch of interesting stuff. Articles on things like how to deal with infections picked up in foreign ports, insects that can stow away and damage your boat, unusual ports of call, historical stuff, etc. I read it cover to cover, and thought that if this was going to be their new standard I was going to be spending a lot more time with it.

It wasn’t the new standard; the two subsequent issues are back to the five-minute flip-through stuff.

The subscription to Chevy High Performance ran out. I don’t miss it at all. I was slightly surprised they never made a serious effort to get me to renew, but they didn’t.

Men’s Health ran out, as well, and again, I didn’t get the expected barrage of renewal offers. I’m puzzled.

As I said last time, I passed Men’s Fitness on to a friend — sent in a change of address with his address. I assume he got it; I haven’t asked.

It took a couple of issues before the change of address for Forbes went through, but it’s gone now.

Entrepreneur is still coming, but I’ve fallen behind on reading it.

Fast Company is also still coming, and I’m a little behind on that, too, but not as much.

ESPN sent me two issues after the supposed expiration date, but it’s gone now, and I belatedly read my last issue a few days ago. It’s still the coolest sports mag I ever saw — articles on sports surgery, gay luchadores, and a zillion other unexpected goodies, all well written and researched — but I should get more accomplished now that it’s gone.

The crowd is definitely thinning.