JD is scheduled to pitch tonight in a home game versus Oak Park.  He was origianlly scheduled to throw against Grandview on Monday, which became Tuesday due to rain and then it was rained out again.  It has now been rescheduled for early May.  Due to the rain, JD hasn't thrown in 9 days so hopefully his arm is well rested and he shakes off any rust quickly.

I've spent some time recently writing bylaws for my fireworks group.  The intent is to organize as a non profit corporation and we'll be doing that over the summer it appears.  We'll also be holding elections for the Board of Directors and preparing for our annual fall shoot.  We have some local cities who are interested in having our shoot at some of their fall city events so that could tie in quite nicely and possibly save us some funds in regard to product purchases and insurance cost.

We're starting to see some activity at the plant in preparation for the re-tool of the passenger system.  There's a lot of work to be done but when finished, our plant will be able to produce pretty much any product the company would need.  We're also confident that we are getting a stamping plant and that is very good job security for our plant.  Not only would we stamp many of the parts we need locally, we would also stamp parts for other facilities as well.  The total investment at our facility would total over $1 Billion if this comes to fruition.

Our contract expires this fall and the anti-union turds are already proclaiming that the UAW will "greedily" seek to restore the lost wages and benefits that we we agreed to give up almost three years ago.  These clowns have nothing better to do but sit in their cubicle and post in online forums all day on subjects they know nothing about.  Somehow they think labor is strangling the company to the point that they can't compete with foreign competition.  Well, my company made $6.5 Billion last year, all the while providing good paying jobs to American citizens.  Does that look uncompetitive to you?  They've also made another $2.6 Billion in the first quarter of this year.  Yep, they are truly hurting by having to pay a decent living wage to their workers.  I'm not disillusioned and think that we'll get all of what we conceeded to back.  I wouldn't even attempt it, but iof they want equity is sacrifice, there must be equity in gain also.

Maybe we should listen to all of the "Dilbert" office types and lower the wages in this country to those of third world nations so we can "compete", after all, all we hear is that it's a "global economy".   I bet that they don't realize that if you lower one group's wages, everyone's will go down too, eventually.  I guess the cubicle dust has made it to their brains.