0) Mass Corporation: (The Dell Assembly Plant) Poem by Otradom Pelogo

A fervid quest, but one that emanates a languid face
Until each part of the dream begins to give it life
And the more hands that reach into the vat, only
Quickens the pace
For a centenarian knows that more faces can only
Lessen the strife

And yet so much like life, it can quickly change its
Mood
Whether it's cherished as a friend to the insular or
To the hungry as food

Although the chassis must travel a straight line for the
Mind to reach its destiny
Like the Capitol's rotunda, it must be inspected before
Set free

While traveling beautifully with a perfect stride
The team work makes it possible, the line makes it
Hide

With an allegro beat to keep the heart
Attuned, although production never stops
But the answer is only titular at the start
And even the title leaves when the line drops

(from: An African American Business Journal)

... I had just spent since about thanksgiving, a lot of time communicating with childhood friends that had popped up on the internet after changing some of the keywords to more of a personal approach from a literary one, since being a writer. I had also wanted to try and keep the lines of communications open, informally at least. So I created a website called MTC Community CTC. The acronyms stands for: (MTC - Message To The Constituents and CTC - Coast To Coast) It was a means of putting it all together with the ability to send out some of the things that were going on where I had recently traveled to, and hoping of receiving feedback at the same time from the people that I had been communicating with over the internet, and anyone else that had passed through. I did the same with The Cost of Adjustment (a one hundred page website) in 2005 and 2006 that I had created after just getting back from the Middle East and the Iraq postwar affair. Something that's still needed today in most communities. Since the only way things get done, as we all know, is to sit down, get together and communicate about the subjects that are affecting us. Subjects like job creation or the depletion of jobs. In 1995 Austin had become one of the new computer vortexes where names could be found like Dell, Motorola, Samsung, AMD, Applied Materials, BAE Systems and a few other places within a few minutes' drive. And as I was finishing up the research on the business finance program that I was working on, The Motivation To Invest The Motivation To Win, there on the news, the internet and television I watched the battle or end of it for many, between Dell's CEO Michael Dell and a diminishing bottom line that caused a rude route out of the public stock market. And thought of all the people that worked in those plants and factories, how many stood up out there and voiced their opinion about the leaving of so many jobs and closing of plants rather than taking for granted that layoffs and shutdowns were the only alternative, and without questioning or the suggesting of a more diverse range of solutions from the community who sustained those companies.

I had been putting websites together since they had first made a major appearance back in 1995, when it was difficult to even create graphics and also quite limited. But being a writer, and trying to constantly keep my work out there, I have been using them just about each year since then; from building literary websites, to making them to give the kids that live there in the neighborhood something to be happy and proud about. AOL (America Online) had carried one (a website) that I had made in 2000, for almost ten years, (which was several pages long) for the kids that I drove to school while working as a school bus driver there in Austin.

I would also keep and update my work on the different literary website that would post either some of the books or poetry that I had written, though these days, since I learned how to get my books published (self-published) , I have been working on updating them and getting them out there, or rather on my or someone else's website, since getting what I write out to the reading public is part of being a writer, not just the act of writing. After putting together The Cost of Adjustments in 2005, and doing a press release for it and the books that I had just published, they ended up on websites from here in the US, to China, Japan, Germany, Holland, Taiwan, and may other places. I had created one after getting back from Iraq, about a hundred pages long (The Cost of Adjustments) , with everything that I had worked on up until that day as a writer, including the traveling to The Middle East and Europe, and the Post War affair in Iraq where I had just spent two years working as a truck driver. On the website that I created in 2013 and 2014, I had posted my books that I had published and some excerpts from them. And a couple of books that my sister Brenda had written also called What To Do When You Feel Like Screaming (for children) and I Love Bad Weather Days (also for children): she works with the counseling and placement of kids in families having problems.

One of the things that I had wanted to try and get out (to the viewing/reading public) was the investing program that I was trying to finish up