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 [...]

Dayton officials say that an entry they put in a pile of stuff for a possible Obama-signable economic stimulus package for local jobs wasn’t supposed to be there - an initiative to get hookers off Dayton streets.  I can’t imagine the sort of jobs something like *that* would generate locally.
Wait, maybe I could.  *shudder*

Cops in a small town outside Dayton, Ohio, got a report of a strange man sitting in a running car that was stopped in a driveway.  Coming up to the car, they found that the passenger seat was filled with a full beer keg, and the drivers side was filled with a very drunk man [...]

Looks like the Ohio DOT is finally getting rid of the US-35 traffic lights in Greene County between Dayton and Xenia.
When I was little, there were two seriously weird expressways-with-traffic-lights situations in the area - on US-25 / I-75 north of the city in Northridge, not far from a home I had on North Dixie [...]

An outfit back in my hometown in Dayton, Ohio, called “Excellence in Motivation” (they’ve been setting up employee incentive programs for 15 years for big companies) just laid off about 15% of its staff…first layoffs ever.
Various reports are coming in to me of layoffs and hurry-up-and-retire efforts at Adobe, where the new CS4 suites and [...]

Ohio Department of Transportation has a whole bunch of map information online; some of them are in MrSid versions, and some in TIFF.  If you need help with those, ask, and I can recommend converters.

Their basic state (and localities) maps are here.  You can also request a printed map for free online.
The historical maps, in [...]

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 [...]

Having a much less immediately lethal form of leukemia and being an adoptive dad of a Chinese girl, this story hits home: a kid in Ohio adopted from China has a nasty version of leukemia, and is in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant.  There’s this little problem, however, about finding a genetic match from [...]

http://images.newsmax.com/misc/2008_Election_Map.jpg
And this one shows the change of color - er, votes in this election versus the last one in the state of Ohio - the bluer the county gets, the more it moved to the Democrats, and the redder, the more that county moved to the Republicans.  The northwest went more Democratic, the area just [...]

Probably of utterly no interest to most of you, but there’s been a recent series in Daytonology on the development of the east side of Dayton, which is my home town.  I spent - well, from 3rd grade till I graduated from college on that side of town, and it’s the Olde Home for me, [...]

I’ve been in a couple of accidents, none damaging to me or the car in any significant way, and one damaging to the other person’s car.  A Live-Journal friend recently had a bad accident, which mashed up their car, but didn’t injure them aside of scaring the bejaizus out of them as the car rolled [...]

So here’s my ideas, half-baked:

Make the deal comprehensive, and mostly a take it or leave it scenario.  This sucker has been a political football for decades, and this ends here right now.
All three companies essentially go into a central, nationalized receivership corporation.
The equity in these businesses is pretty much gone, in any event.  [...]

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

I normally do *not* embed You Tube stuff in the journal, but I was so appalled by this…