Random Rantings

I know it's Sunday and only 1 o'clock but I have already noticed a few things worth ranting about.

• I was driving around and saw an old dude in wheelchair shoveling. WTF?
• I went to Sam's Club (always has a unique demographic on a Sunday morning), but I noticed that they sell gift cards there. Okay, but the weird thing is the pricing of them. The $25 gift cards for I-tunes, Olive Garden and place like that were $24.88. Woo-hoo, I save 12 cents. The $50 cards were $48.44, you save $1.56. However what was really weird was that their were these MasterCard $25 gift cards, which I am guessing worked just like a debit card, and they were being sold at $26.12. WTF? Why are they more expensive than the face value?
  
• Based on a suggestion from Edgrimley, I am currently downloading openoffice.org. It is suppossed to work just like Microsoft Word, but without the glitches and it is free. I will know in about 3 minutes when it is done downloading if it works. If that is some scheme for my rival blogger to once and for all finally take me down, there will be repurcussions. It says it can also open any word file and saves in a format that can be opened in Word. One thing that has been annoying me lately is that Word does not want to open any files that are not from that exact version of Word. It won't even open a file from a version of word from a year ago. I don't get it.