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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G1

2 Jun 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

“He’s almost eighty now, but he’s got a mind like a calculator,” Duane tells Edgar, en route to the Bellwether Snacks headquarters, “and he still works, too: two days a week, like clockwork. You can count on it.”             This trip across town wa...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F1

29 May 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Though its weekly sales amount to roughly half of what each of the other two are pulling in, one oddly colored feather in Liberty’s cap is that it is nonetheless the most profitable store. Palmyra and Southside both appear to be rising ships, with s...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E1

25 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

One of Teri’s first key lessons for him concerns the addition of new items to their computer system. Months earlier, when they first began installing this Orchestra software, she arranged a blank Excel template twelve columns wide, sent this to all...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - D1

18 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

                             D1                 Both in size and appearance, Liberty Avenue more closely resembles your average, single proprietor owned, charming little convenience store more than it does an all-natural market. And moving in the c...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C1

15 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

C1                   Southside opened almost exactly three years ago, and is without question the current prize jewel of this operation. The previous occupant was apparently a Harris Teeter where, reputable sources insist, a store manager was shot t...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B1

11 May 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

The job sounds straightforward enough. They are a tiny chain of three retail outlets, specializing in natural and locally sourced products, for health minded individuals. Though Bellwether Snacks owns them, these stores have relatively complete auto...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - A1

10 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Everything was cool up until the summer that Liberty Avenue closed. More specifically the morning where it first occurred to many of them that maybe this company was no longer on the upswing. Their acting owner has just called a meeting, to announce...

I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your post. - Daily Bible Reading: Thursday, January 12, 2023

13 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments evgenima

Isaiah 22:15-25 (NRSV) 15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is master of the household, and say to him: 16What right do you have here? Who are your relatives here, that you have cut out a tomb here for yourse...

Microsoft will retire a brand of more than 30 years, see here which

25 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments lingy

The big tech Microsoft is going through a series of acquisitions, retirements and rebrands between its brands, and its older products are not safe from such a process. In recent months, the company has deactivated several projects considered obsolete...

Fun experiment. Crash of symbols

3 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Humor in Adobe After Effects Fun experiment Crash of symbols Original Video Smith & Lee - TextlessA 2019 Vimeo Best of the Year Nominated Staff Pick | Featured on MotionographerA kinetic, jazz drum-fueled trip through a city where text is falling of...