On Sunday, I took the 25 bus to IKEA and returned a pillowcase I’d bought the day before. It was far too rectangular for my taste. I then walked to Best Buy where they had plenty of white 60 GB Video iPods on hand to exchange for my busted ass iPod. The cool thing about the exchange is that it’s as if I bought a brand new iPod yesterday and the three year service plan began as of the time I got the replacement. Nice. I’m liking the Best Buy more and more these days. In a similar vein — as far as expensive gadgets are concerned — on Saturday I went to Delaware to shop for a laptop with The Heather at Circuit City. They were putting the pressure on her as far as buying a copy of Norton AntiVirus 2006 with built in firewall protection. Woo. I pointed out that Windows XP already has a firewall installed. They shifted gears and told her that they would install the software ”for free” and that doing so would let them ”make sure everything was okay with the laptop.” I was like, ”We’re not really feeling the benefit of having you install something, bro.” From therein, every attempt made to make the extra sale was promptly shot down by my Super Genius logic. I felt sorry for them. Okay, well, not really. Maybe a little. I eventually changed the subject by asking were the ”old guy” sales associate was. They laughed amongst themselves and immediately knew who I was talking about, saying he’d gone home to play with his rascal. The ”old guy” is the associate I bought my HP laptop from last year at the same Circuit City. I call him Sir Slowy.