According to the AP wireservice, GM is closing their oldest plant. It is an SUV plant in Wisconsin that has been open since 1918. That is 85 years folks.
The only thing that GM has staying open is the plants where they are teamed with Isuzu.
And the times, they are a changin’.
Namaste.
The automotive industry is not located solely in Detroit. Workers at General Motors Corp.’s sport-utility vehicle plant in the Dayton suburb of Moraine are working their last day at the factory. About 1,080 hourly workers are employed at the plant.
And across the border in Indiana, Kokomo, with four Chrysler plants employing about 5,000 workers, helps support numerous auto parts suppliers, including Delphi Corp., an auto electronics supplier that has about 3,100 Kokomo employees.
Marion Mayor Wayne Seybold, whose city has a GM plant that employs 1,200 and has numerous suppliers, said he was relieved that Bush “stood up” and offered the loans to GM and Chrysler.
Just another example of the ripple effect.
Namaste.
I had beer that needed to be bottled. A nice red ale. It had been in the fermentor for a couple of weeks. It was time to bottle it.
But first the bottles had to be cleaned. No biggie, put them in a 5% bleach solution over night and they will be ready. Which they were, but the kitchen had to be cleaned up before I could rinse the bottles.
And then after I rinsed the bottles, and sanitized the bottling bucket, I had to boil water and sugar for priming the wort. And so while the priming solution was cooling, I went out and delivered a case of beer to a friend who had given me a few cases of bottles. And then on the the Post Office where I dropped off a couple of things for MLW.
Then off to the liquor store for my BIL’s annual bottle of Crown Royal. The next stop was at Lowe’s for a tool for my FIL, and since Lowe’s didn’t have it, I went to Home Deport where I was informed that the tool in question wasn’t really that good. Got talked into another tool and headed home.
Where I promptly was caught in mid-afternoon traffic. Got home. Bottled the beer, cleaned up the kitchen a second time. Took the beer down to the cellar, had to clean up the section that I use for storage. Ended up taking 4 bags of junk out to the trash.
Went back upstairs, decided to make some fudge and magic bar cookies. And then cleaned up the kitchen for a freaking THIRD time.
Decided that tonight is a good night for pizza.
And it started out so freaking simply. I just needed to bottle some beer.
Namaste.
