Lock Box - right! Talk to my hand!

NOTE - I have been scolded for the Lock Box posts and have been corrected.  Since there was no information posted anywhere I assumed the business owners new what they were talking about.  I guess communication to businesses and the public was missing when the lock box thing came out.  Something I wish to correct if elected onto the City Council.
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There is/was a new ordinance (or something like that) in Columbus forcing all business owners to purchase a $250 lock box and put keys to the business in it so the Police can have access to the buildings in the off hours.

As originally written the police wanted all houses in Columbus to purchase a lock box (for $250) and put the keys to their house into that box so the Police could enter the house whenever they felt like it . . or if there was trouble (I guess).  That failed.  I've talked to a few business owners and there is no way in hell they are purchasing a lock box and there are petitions being passed around.  
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Mama Mia's is back open for business.  While the City Government ponders what to do about Cenex selling liqueur to minors and their pending demerit points I wonder how many demerit points Mama Mia's gets for selling cocaine out of their restaurant.  From what I halfway heard on the news the owner posted like $500 bail and was told to not sell anymore cocaine out of his restaurant.

I'll let you know the number of demerit points they get.   One more time buddy and you will be forced to go in front of the Council.

Then there is the whole sidewalk shoveling controversy downtown.  Who should shovel the sidewalks.  Actually it is a tricky problem with many sides.   Should the city do it for free as it does now?  Mayor Bob says "This is not fair to the "artery" businesses" who have to shovel their own sidewalk.   Should business owners do it themselves?  This would be good IF they did shovel but some don't shovel at all.

The vision is to shovel the snow into the street so the plows can take it. But that would mean 6-8 in the morning and many stores do not open till 10:00.

My thing is that downtown is a different animal they the artery stores.  It's an apple to oranges thing.  Downtown all the stores are next to each other. Customers can go store to store without going into their cars. What is Mayor Bob talking about with all his "fairness blustering".  Give me 59 examples (the number of downtown businesses) how their problem is the same. Are their sidewalks directly connected to the street/highway?   

So either you let the city do it in one clean swoop for $500 OR "downtown" needs to hire someone to do it.  Don't leave it to the store owners to do it willy nilly. Maybe Main Street Org needs to discuss this as I believe this is in their jurisdiction.  Main Street Org is in charge of "revitalization and management of their downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts."  right?

If they want to create a pleasing atmosphere for the downtown area this should fall into their realm.

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When I did that RAW Madison thing I gave an interview which I really hated.  When it was over I told myself "WELL, I'll never watch THAT train wreak".

Last night DJ said "I googled Rod Melotte and there were like 21 million hits".  So I looked and this video was out there on Youtube.

This is like listening to yourself on a record - YUCK!!

http://youtu.be/LsRNGXBLDuQ

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OH - if you have never seen this video - it's a stitch.  Last 2 minutes and is pretty funny.

I'm reading a Sci Fi book called Enders Game and I found out last night that it's being made into a movie with Harrison Ford as the adult star. It's a page turner all right.  How do authors do that.  What makes a "page turner".   It's a Nebula and Hugo Award Winner.

All I know is that reading a chapter is like eating 3 cookies and all of a sudden you see you ate the last bite of cookie and didn't know it.  ARH - I hate that.  If I was on a desert island and had only one book this would be the one.  But what would I do on the 2nd day.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. 

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Have a great weekend - GO PACKERS!!

Rod