Shame on me for letting these few days go by before I realized the real wisdom of getting Hillary locked down in the State Department under his thumb and unable to openly lay the groundwork for a primary challenge in 2012.
"We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it."
I know he's not the first politician to ever use "serious" more than once in a sentence, but it still jumped out at me.
For the record, if it's a rainy afternoon, I'm just about guaranteed to stop and watch The American President if I see it on. While I can do without all the liberal sermonizing, it's an entertaining flick, in my opinion.
So, the old iPod was giving me trouble. I called the Mayfield Heights Best Buy the other night and explained that I was having periodic problems with it...that it was regularly (but not constantly) failing to recognize my touches to the screen. The young lady assured me that even though it was not happening all the time, I could come in and get it swapped out with my repair plan.
Well...I went through the trouble of getting out there today only to find out that they had no interest in doing this. Since it was operating fine at the moment, the best they could do is hold on to it for a few days, try to recreate it and, if they were unable to replicate, would give me my same model back.
Those who know me know that I have a real aversion to being overly-assertive. I don't send food back in restaurants and don't make a habit of asking to see the manager. But I'd had enough of this. I paid good money not only for the iPod, but for the service plan and was assured that I could bring it in and the situation would be resolved to my satisfaction. I stayed calm, but insisted on seeing the manager to explain this.
She came out, explained that the repair plan did only entitle me to the scenario above, but that she'd make an exception and get me a new, identical model.
I didn't want to pull the sappy "you've just lost a customer" routine with her, but that would have been my only real recourse, since I was not going to disrespect myself by making a hysterical scene there.
While I can do without the hassle, I left the store a satisfied customer in the end.
I will admit, though, as I was waiting for her to come back from the office, I did feel a bit like Howard Beales...
One has to wonder if David Axelrod and the fellas got together and gave this speech to Barack Obama last night, as they head up to New Hampshire where they will continue to tame the shrew!
I, myself, was tickled imagining it, but I might be a bit weird.
I taught a class today at my job...something I do a handful of times a year, but this was on a different data warehouse than I'd worked on before, so I'm pretty mentally and emotionally drained...so please forgive me the rather obvious posting tonight.
When I was watching that "leader" at the UN yesterday, I could only think of one of the great sequences of all time...Chaplin in the globe scene from The Great Dictator.
Energy level should be back up tomorrow and I'm betting I'll be pissed enough about something to post.
Eh, kind of interesting, I guess. The one advantage I have found is that some users on YouTube don't allow embedding. But I can use RealPlayer to pull down a local flash copy of the video, then upload it here...provided it's under the 1M size limit.
The buffering wait is a little annoying, but it's still a nice enhancement.
I did not need it here w/ one of the great scenes from Godfather I, though. The flick choice was appropriate as I was making gnocchi for dinner while doing this.
The fact is that the guy is a very raunchy comedian who's dumb like a fox.
You really should not watch this if you know that certain things offend you, little people are around or you are on a work machine...it better be by far the most vulgar joke you've ever heard.
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. The drama of the build-up, the dialog, the excellent camera work, the stark display of how fast people's lives can change...and the music.
In an interview last winter, Barack told Entertainment Tonight that The Godfather movies were among his favorite.
