GEEZUZFRIGGINGCRAP!!!! It's PDH* here in BAKO!!!

It was 97 F at 1030 PM last night!!!!!!

Here's my favorite spot now - moving my bed into the middle of the pool and not leaving except to address, er, uh, issues related to food and drink intake.

Presidential campaign is heating up but for the wrong reasons!

*PDH: Pretty Damn Hot!!!

Ace for President!!! Vote for Me!

Vote for Ace! He's No Worse than Anyone Else!

Was arguing with some folks in the Literati Chat Lobby today (that goes on a lot) and the idea came up that I should run for President of the good ol' US of A in the next election as a write-in.

I mean, how much worse could I be than everyone who has been there and/or is trying to get there?

I think I'm very qualified. I piss folks off very easily, I have strong views on many subjects that many people disagree with, and I'm never wrong (although sometimes I may be mistaken). Also, I just told one of the world's largest oil companies to go screw themselves, so, I'm not beholden to corporate favors! (And I have lots of time on my hands now, too!)

So, I hereby announce my run for President. Vote for me - you won't regret it anymore than the votes for all the other losers you've made before!

Vote for Ace! He's No Worse than Anyone Else!

Movies - Everyone has a movie blog, why not me?

Ok - just sitting here wasting time before bed. How about at least a list of some favorite flicks?

Here goes, not in any particular order, a mixture of old and new:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Psycho
3. The Conversation
4. Godfather 1 & 2
5. Appocalypse Now
6. The Deer Hunter
7. Vertigo
8. Casablanca
9. Days of Heaven
10. Taxi Driver
11. Thief
12. Heat
13. The Last of the Mohicans (Mann's)
14. Collateral
15. The Machinist
16. Memento
17. Star Wars
18. The Birds
19. 2001: A Space Oddysey
20. Bonnie and Clyde
21. Raising Arizona - I love that flick!

Lots more - these were off of the top of my head. What are your favorites? Any comments on the above?

And, how about some favorite directors (yeh, I believe in the "Auteur" theory):

1. Hitchcock
2. Coppola (Francis, not Sofia, but she's a helluva better director than an actress)
3. Scorsese
4. Arthur Penn
5. Michael Mann
6. Christopher Nolan
7. Orson Welles
8. Clint Eastwood (yeah - this one's surprising, but not if one is really objective about it)
9. Antonioni
10. Kubrick
11. Ford
12. Hawks
13. Spielberg
14. Huston
15. Malick
16. Bergman
17. Chaplin
18. Keaton
19. Brian De Palma
20. I think I'm missing someone important here - any suggestions? I know - 21. Joel and Ethan Coen!!!!! Who are your favorites?

Gee - no women on the above list. Why is that? Am I sexist, is my memory bad, or what?

More on Quitting My Job

Spent the day talking with investment counselors about rolling over my pension into an IRA, and other possibilities with my 401K and other investments. Basically, not only should I have no problem generating the conservative amount of income I've planned for retirement, but, if I do this right, there's a real good chance my investments would earn at least as much, if not more, than the salary I was getting!

As the financial advisor said, "Man, this is where the fun part of your life starts! What cool trip are you going to go on first?"

I feel better about leaving those incompetent assholes every day!

My NANO finally works!

Geezuz - what a trip! Sent my Nano in for repairs, 1 month later it comes back with exactly the same problem. Skips all the songs I downloaded from iTunes. Gawd.

So, I get on the phone - spend the entire day calling Apple tech support until I finally, finally find a geek who knows what the hell she is doing. She spent about 45 minutes with me, running tests on my pc, tests on the iTunes player, tests on some test music downloads.

Lo and behold - my Nano now works!! So now it isn't a complete waste of $250!

But, before you start thinking I'm supportive of geeks, they still can't figure out why I still can't burn iTunes downloads to cds. Got a feeling I'll see pigs fly first before that happens...