Memnison Journal

The last GM plant in Dayton / Moraine City shuts down, where my Dad, Mom and Granny worked (when it was a Frigidaire plant (they shifted to pickups and SUVs in 1979)).  The local officials are trying to figure out what to do next, and the workers are cut adrift.   As are the plant’s myriad [...]

My dad’s old elementary school in Frankfort, Ohio.  *smush*  (Wikipedia on the town)

Somewhat butchered in information (the origins of the Rittenhousii are different pre-Revolutionary War from what’s said here), but the material after the cut is from a book entitled A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio, dated 1917, and lists out my great-grandfather (Cephus), grandfather (Arthur) and father (Curtis Rittenhouse). (see page 724) At the time this [...]

I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so.  Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow.  So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff. 
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]

This works for either me or Meredith.  There’s some question as to whether Susan has been in Mexico; if she was, it was to take two steps over the border in Tijuana or something.

This is Mere’s states.  California from when we brought her home, Massachusetts from a trip to the Boston Worldcon, and the rest [...]

I’m actively interested in your poisition on this matter.  Feel free to sound off inside *politely*.
My own struggles on this:

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

Recently, a good friend of mine who I disagree with politically laid out his concerns and objections around the present electoral cycle. I started to reply as a comment to his posting online, and then I quickly found that what I was saying was waaaaaay too long winded to work as a comment. For [...]

As passed on to me by Nathan:

Earlier, I was mentioning Mere’s icky liquid oral antibiotics, and then James Nicholl saw that, shuddered, and related his own tale of woe. Mere, by the way, is now using a different set of the bug-killers that isn’t bad at all, or so she says.
I have a few more of my own from my [...]

To spare people who hate these things, I’m just gonna say it’s all ladycelt’s fault, and no, I’m not a vegetarian. Much the contrary.

I’d forgotten about this, too. Though I don’t quite know where to start in ‘filling in the gaps…’

A: Accent - depends on who I’ve spoken to last, to a slight degree. My root accent is southwest Ohioan, which sounds more twangy and a little more southern and western than standard Midwestern US English. Sometimes, I sound almost Canadian, which is the accent I was aiming at back in college to stamp [...]