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The May 13 episode of The Sopranos was called “Kennedy and Heidi,” which was a reference to the names of two teenaged girls who were involved in a car accident with Tony and Christopher. The episode started out great, but then focused more on “psychological” stuff that reminded me of early Season 6 shows — which I didn’t like. So this recap is going to be short ‘n’ sweet, because I don’t think I need to detail every mood that Tony went through in episode 6×18.

Tony/Christopher: While returning to Jersey from a meeting with the New York crew, Christopher, who’s driving, gets distracted by the radio. He’s fiddling with buttons on it and not looking where he’s going, which causes him to swerve into the other lane. A car heading in the opposite direction comes along and clips Christopher and Tony’s car, sending them rolling down an embankment.

Christopher wasn’t wearing a seat belt, so he got pretty jacked up. It looked like the steering column and air bag did a lot of damage to his chest area, and he was gurgling blood and all that good stuff. He begs Tony (who escaped with an injured knee and some face lacerations) to call an ambulance. Tony gets as far as dialing 9-1 before deciding this would be a good time to take care of one of his biggest problems. He calmly walks over to Chrissy, and pinches his nose shut so that the kid basically drowns in his own blood.

The rest of the ep then showed Tony trying to look sad and mournful along with everyone else when actually he was overjoyed to have the “whiny, sniveling drug-addict” out of his hair. Tony can’t take the hypocrisy of the whole situation, so he jets off to Vegas where he can lose himself in hookers, drugs, and gambling without worrying about who sees him.

At the very end, we see Tony, high on Peyote, screaming in the desert, “I DID IT!”

My Reaction: Again, the beginning of the episode when Tony killed Chrissy and then dealt with the first wave of emotions was pretty good. But then it just dragged on and on, and became highly repetitive. Hey, I get that T is a sociopath and wasn’t about to shed any tears for something that he’s wanted to do for a long time — but do I have to sit through 30 extra minutes of that kind of b.s.? How many different ways can the writers say that Tony doesn’t feel guilty about any of it?

Oh, and I thought that was a rather undramatic, anticlimactic death for Chrissy. I haven’t liked that character since Ade was whacked, but he’s been around from the beginning and was a captain, so he deserved to go out with more of a bang.

When I worked at my last office job, one of my duties was to help alert the purchasing department to any supply needs we might have had. For example, if we were low on inkjet cartridges for our printers or toner cartridges for our copiers, I’d have to fill out a requisition form and send it to the right person upstairs.

As with most big companies, however, the paperwork was often held up by the usual office bureaucracy. It could take a month or more for supply requests to get approved, and then a couple more weeks to actually receive the products, so I really had to stay on top of the ball and monitor our usage patterns pretty closely.

Anyway, I can’t help but think how much easier it would have been if I could have ordered the ink and toner on my own. For example, I know of a lot of a website called inkers.biz that offers high-quality compatible ink cartridges at deep discounts and can get the products to nearly any location in the continental U.S. in 2-3 days. That would have been much faster than adding to the purchasing department’s workload!

Oh, well. At least now that I work from home, I can finally take advantage of these discount websites for myself!