Pointless

I was having trouble with several on-line retailers earlier in this week, but I finally had a break through with buy.com and the fixed the problem I was having with them. They wanted me to fax them my drivers license, which I thought was a bit much. Fortunately they relented. Just now I wrote a strongly worded letter to eBay. My complaint against half.com has apparently been escalated up to the parent company's support staff. I don't expect them to give me what I am asking for (which amounts to an apology at this point, since they failed to fix what I asked them to fix), and to be honest I don't really care that much, but I'm proceeding under the assumption that It's The Principle Of The Thing. The truth, however, is that it is pointless.

Things are quiet at work today, given that it is the Friday before Thanksgiving week. My former manager (the good one, who was promoted into upper management), came over the other day and said something about "Think Fridays" (I guess it must have been a Friday) and I was like ... "Um. What is that." I vaguely recall some discussion about this in a meeting at some point, but I had buried it or ignored it because it seemed pointless.

Thanksgiving week always seems like a good week to take days off, but since management always comes around on Wednesday to let us out early, I think that it is kind of pointless to take that day off, and hence the rest of the short week.

I watched an episode of the Apprentice with some friends last night. That also seemed rather pointless.

Before that we watched Crash, which wasn't pointless... It was actually pretty good, but I didn't like the way that actors would break character randomly and begin essay-like monologues from time to time. I don't really like that style of story telling, but I suppose to bring that up here is pointless.