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exquisitenoiseEl Globo Oscuro & Jason McGathey - Tales A1/The Chronicle And Shoothttps://exquisitenoise.com2024-09-2907 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - L1Well, the book is finally out, and like a proud papa, I couldn’t be happier! This is the first time I ever tried an actual semi-legit, planned out release strategy, i.e. scheduling it 3 months in advance and promoting the thing for a change. I’m not sure this worked any better, but it certainly feels less half baked, as opposed to the usual tactics of dropping these things into the void, with no fanfare whatsoever, and then immediately moving on to the next project. So that’s something.
As for the complete novel, here are some ord...2024-04-1111 min
The Hilliard Beacon PodcastHBAC #58 w/ Jason McGathey (Love Letter to Columbus)We have a nostalgic chat about the Columbus of our past and how one writer is choosing to preserve their memory of it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hilliardbeacon.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-1052 min
The Hilliard Beacon PodcastHilliard Beacon Audio #57Welcome!In this episode we run through our usual wide variety of topics in a tidy 30 minute episode:* Local Election Results https://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/elections* Hilliard Schools MFP Survey Results November 2023* Jordan takes a moment to discuss the FBI comments on the conviction of Larry Householder as 10 new state charges are announced. (h/t Columbus Axios Newsletter)* We discuss the recent and ongoing local advocacy for city council to take an official position on the untenable situation between Palestine and Israel* We preview the State of the City...2024-03-2730 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - K1Print book now available! Get it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQRQ6BJK2024-01-0516 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - J1Edgar wouldn’t say he’s gotten to know Christie
extremely well just yet. They are on friendly enough terms, however, to chat briefly in passing about even non-business related matters. Or for him to become her desperation last resort when, as the day of an event at Liberty Avenue approaches, to ask if it might be possible for him to man the grill.
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2023-10-0926 minJason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - I1Even though rumors are swirling that Palmyra’s butcher, Nick, is on the hot seat, for some reason they hire one of his closest friends, Scott, as Southside’s meat cutter. Nick has been talking him up for months and they finally decided to pull the trigger on the guy. Part of the wait is that he was only recently released from prison. And the morning that he starts, Dale, Craig and Edgar are coincidentally standing around in the Southside conference room, with the lights off, discussing strategy. This is a fairly common occurrence for many of them, a...2023-09-0719 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - H1The fourth column in the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to brand name. A seemingly straightforward concept which is nonetheless much more labor intensive than he ever would have guessed. Having uniform brand names for every product in a line is a huge help, for searching items in the system, for setting the sale prices in advance of their weekly flyers. But it’s the kind of thing that must be chipped away at over time, because they’re currently not all that uniform.
Like what you're hearing? You can always read the story inst...2023-08-1814 minJason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G1“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 was Duane’s idea. He’d stuck his head into Edgar’s office and said he was cruising over to corporate, suggested this ride along. It was intended as a rapport building exercise, most likely, between the two of them, but is also Edgar’s first opportunity for meeting certain key management if no...2023-08-0808 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F1Though 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 slow and steady upticks in volume, but money is continually poured into each in the name of various improvements. Whereas, apart from utilities and its bargain of a lease, expenses are almost nonexistent at their oldest location. The Locke family likes to characterize Liberty as HHM’s reliable, if unglamorous, cash cow.
2023-07-1913 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E1One 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 department managers, merchandisers, and store managers. It’s fairly self-explanatory, and she is adamant that if anyone wants a new item added to the system, they must email it via this form.
“If it comes in and it’s wrong, fire it right back at
them,” she tells him with a chuckle, “sometimes I’ve sent it back t...2023-07-0610 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - 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 complete opposite direction as its
Southside cousin across town, this location finds itself situated in a once
thriving district which has now fallen seriously out of favor. In a non-GMO
nutshell, what happened out here is that heavy traffic forced the city into
some dicey infrastructure decisions, which then subsequently killed most
traffic – namely, a cement blockaded bus lane right down the middle which essentially
made this city boulevard in...2023-06-1908 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C1Southside 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 to death in
his office. Bellwether Snacks/Healthy Hippie Market were subsequently able to
lease it for a song, though not so much because of this shooting, rather that
at this time, this was somewhat of a downtrodden, forgotten district.
Credit goes to Duane Hatley and an assist to owner Walter Locke for being visionaries, and recognizing that this
would soon enough...2023-06-0614 min
Jason McGathey"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B1The 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 autonomy, so long as they are profitable.
Healthy Hippie Market doesn’t really have its own accounting department, and
nobody inside the stores in this role whatsoever, but Edgar Lodge will be the
closest thing to it.
It’s a position that hasn’t existed before. Edgar’s
primary focus will involve going through every invoice, ensuring each item is charged
to the corr...2023-05-2309 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – A1Everything 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 the shuttering of their original location, which
somehow endured in this town, in a beleaguered, not exactly great spot, from
the late 1970s up until now. And also, oh yeah, that their president, Duane Hatley,
who had received the news earlier than his employees, had just chosen to tender
his resignation as well.
“I do...2023-05-1006 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 43
The structure of the deli here is unique as far as grocery stores are concerned, and each of the stores in turn remains totally different. Beyond pitching in a little to get Walnut up and running, for example, there’s almost no need for Christie to make that hour drive once a week, and she’s mostly exempted from the one-day-a-week edict. Southside continues to try and wrap the department manager and chef up into one individual, whereas Palmyra hasn’t even attempted this.
More to the point of Christie’s current visit, though, and this ide...2023-05-0307 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 42
Though Craig Willis was able to successfully deflect Pierre’s attempts at forcing him to work weekends, he is nonetheless cajoled into driving up to Palmyra and helping that grocery department, for one full day, at time and a half. He returns to Southside the following Monday, flopping into Edgar’s “therapy patient” chair to relate his findings.
“Man, I think out of everybody working in that store, Trudy…your mom…and Shelly…those are the only three in the building who aren’t on drugs!” Craig tells him, shaking his head at the continued insanity vortex this store represen...2023-04-2506 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 41
They begin moving into the Walnut location on the first, which gives them a month to get this operation up and running. Under normal circumstances, this would be nowhere near enough time, but unlike the last store opening – Southside, some seven years ago – occupying a corner space of this indoor market, the infrastructure’s in place, the permits needed minimal. Also, though a highly controversial move that Duane has hatched out on his own, they’re forgoing any sort of computerized operation here. He’s weighed the pros and cons and determined that it’s not worth the effort a...2023-04-1909 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 40As they begin moving into the Walnut location, it makes perfect sense to roll this into a company-wide rearrangement. Palmyra’s produce manager, Johnny, has requested a transfer to work in Walnut, as he lives nearer there, and some laidback, seemingly rational and middle aged mom type, Charlene, is hired to fill his former post. Meanwhile, a basically sweet but grouchiness-projecting older in woman in vitamins, Alice, though grousing daily for years about her hour long drive to Palmyra, is offered a position at Walnut – like Johnny, it’s much nearer to her home – but she declines this assignment.
Br...2023-04-1212 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 39
The little blurb people put beside their name in Twitter is usually far more comical than anything they ever post. This is one thing Jack Lincoln has noticed, scrolling through that social media time suck in his down time.
But then again, these sites all have their winning attributes. With LinkedIn, he likes the mayhem of their connection suggestions. At the top of their endless doom scroll, the first name is seemingly always someone you’ve never met nor heard of, followed by some random ex-coworker who isn’t a mutual connection with anyone else. Whom...2023-04-0406 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 38
Well okay, now she has officially seen just about everything. As Glenda Jackson is opening the latest manila folder from Liberty Avenue, what tumbles out is not only the expected modest stack of invoices, but also a clipped together bundle of…word search answers? From the latest Healthy Shopper Market newsletter? Yes. Along with a little post-it note atop these, which reads, LIBERTY’S PUZZLES! Employee crossword puzzles to Be turned in!! And then a smile below the dots of those two exclamation points, which are supposed to be the eyes.
As a recipient of these...2023-03-2811 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 37
Some conspiracy theory type cashier, a thirtysomething dude that’s been with the company for maybe three weeks, sticks a post-it note to the monitor up in Palmyra’s office which reads, Friends: be careful what you’re doing on here! “They” are watching!! He has drawn some eyeballs up above the message, a set looking to the left, and another set looking to the right, while at the bottom, much as you can infer such from a simple drawing, there’s a big old sarcastic smiley face.
This message cracks Edgar up, the first time he sees it...2023-03-2111 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 36It’s strange how certain topics get lofted into the air, and begin to catch fire due to their momentum, when you’ve mentioned your own recent preoccupation with them to no one. Of course, skeptics will claim that it’s only because you are currently paying attention to this subject, that these perceived coincidences do not exist. But while that’s certainly true to some extent, and while there are also unseen threads connecting chain reactions invisible to you, this can’t possibly explain away everything.
Edgar’s over in the managers’ office at Southside, one afternoon imme...2023-03-1410 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 35Walnut is a city of approximately 40,000, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The interstate neatly cleaves into two distinct sections, one of which is modern and heavy with strip malls, the other considerably older, with very few developments over the past decade or two. The downtown proper is one mild exception, however, as things have slowly been on the upswing, with the addition of a craft brewery slash restaurant and a trendy coffee shop, to go with charming older institutions such as a timeworn diner and an ancient two screen theater which still shows first run...2023-03-0708 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 34Out here in the wild and woolly retail landscape, it’s often unclear whether keeping these incidents to oneself is the right thing to do. You could certainly advance a valid argument that sweeping something like this under the rug is not in the company’s best interests. Yet to run and complain to Duane about it wouldn’t really feel right, either, would leave Edgar feeling more like a third grade tattletale. He is seriously trying to picture a scenario that would find him contacting Human Resources about somebody, and is drawing up nothing but blanks.
But th...2023-02-2806 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 33This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-33/2023-02-2108 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 32This isn’t to suggest that Palmyra has cornered the market on personnel – or personality – struggles. Naturally, after months of relative calm, many of these bombshells just so happen to arrive during the busiest months of the year, when they can least afford to deal with such distractions.
The first major bloodshed arrives when Aria is escorted off the premises by police. This move doesn’t just signal the end of her employment with the company, but finds them pressing charges against her as well. Although the exact details are murky to those who haven’t dealt with front...2023-02-2109 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 31Getting a handle on this bulk madness is presumably one of the reasons Duane asked Harry to come up with a list of what each store is carrying. The results were evidently not quite what he had in mind, though, for he asks Corey to do it all over again. When Edgar hears about this, apart from considering it comical, his next thought is that he could come up with those lists in about five minutes, or at least lists of what each store is ordering, separate lists of what each store is selling. Could even combine them in...2023-02-1409 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 30The eighth column in the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to a simple flag, to mark whether the product in question is packaged or random weight. The number 1 is placed in this column if so, to trip a function in the system that will weigh this item at the cash register, but is otherwise left blank.
For as much time as he spends arguing with alcohol zealots, heightened now by hiring Jake Gifford for what you may as well call an Executive Beer Hipster position, the random weight items – mostly in the bulk department – are easily the most...2023-02-0406 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 29Nearly two months after that lone time hanging out together, the night of Dave’s band performance, Brady randomly asks Edgar if he wants to go grab some beers. It’s a Friday at the end of October, and while refraining from dressing up themselves, they figure there are bound to be a few Halloween related happenings in the region tonight. As an added bonus, it seems that former meat department goofball Justin will be joining them.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-29/2022-12-2008 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 28Edgar is also able to take advantage of Corey’s predictable schedule, albeit not quite in the same manner as the recently busted loafers. Rather, frustrated already with his Corey related dealings on the beer-wine front, this has given him a great opportunity to secretly shift into Plan C.
After months of trying it Corey’s way, it’s pretty obvious to Edgar that this simply isn’t going to work. He had pleaded his case to Duane, to have Edgar email him all cost changes and for him to have the final say in all alcohol pricing...2022-12-1308 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 27The personnel nightmares continue at Palmyra, anyway, which demand far greater attention than anywhere else. As much as can ever be the case in this high overturn industry, the other two locations remain stable – and in fact, it’s not uncommon for Liberty to go months without a single change. Some of Palmyra’s vagaries are explained away as the result of hiring college kids, in a college town, though this only accounts for so much.
One mild mannered kid, hired to work in grocery, everyone seems to agree has great potential. He’s quiet, he’s smart, and...2022-12-0605 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 26“I like Christie, don’t get me wrong. But…”
It’s amazing how many conversations start out this way, Edgar’s thinking. As Arnie begins to rant in what amounts to a slightly elevated whisper, up here in his office.
With the other computer in here unoccupied, though the Orchestra server is connected to it, Arnie has unofficially claimed this as his work station, whenever in need of one at this store. He typically does so by announcing the “DEFCON status,” on a scale from 1 to 5, as he enters the room, which is meant to indicate how muc...2022-11-3009 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 25Though Microsoft’s cloud storage OneDrive platform uses a few different icons for its “Something Went Wrong!” message, there’s one that cracks Jack Lincoln up, every time, which would be the one which resembles a pile of doodie, wearing a birthday hat. Allegedly this is supposed to be a piece of birthday cake, but it doesn’t really resemble such, even a half crumbled one, and anyway that wouldn’t make any sense. Why a piece of birthday cake if Something Went Wrong (then again, why a totally fine looking bicycle, which is one of the other icons)? Nope, what i...2022-11-2206 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 24Modern efficiencies can be great, if that saved time is put to good use. This is one of the things Glenda thinks about often, as she’s humming along entering invoices, in her island of a cubicle at the Bellwether HQ. If you are banking that time to get better at your job, be it by catching up on other things, or learning more, or tinkering around in an attempt to find even better methods, then this is great. But the problem with everything being faster these days is that often, all it’s accomplished is…making everyone expect everyt...2022-11-1509 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 23The emails continue between Edgar and Tonya on a frequent if not daily basis. At no point does he ever mention doing anything socially with her again, nor does she. Until a handful of weeks have gone by and out of the blue it’s 2:30 in the afternoon on a Friday, and she dials his office for whatever reason, in seemingly a giddy mood. Says she’s getting off at four herself, it’s a gorgeous fall day et cetera, and wondering if he wouldn’t want to meet for happy hour somewhere.
Part of him thinks he shoul...2022-11-0818 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 22Well, Tonya Flaherty never called him that Friday. Or at any other point. However, the highly entertaining email exchange continues unfettered, such as when Edgar inquires about this line of incense which mysteriously appears in expected fashion, upon the shelves of Liberty Avenue. Attempting to ask Sam about the origin of these, which feature a different semi-nude female on each separate aroma, only produces the expected incoherent answer which leads a listener to question his grip upon reality. Which is maybe fitting, considering some of these varieties have either vague or overt drug related names, like the package marked...2022-11-0109 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 21Well, Edgar thinks with a wry smirk, it’s funny how the technology is bullshit to certain people, most of the time…except when maybe they want a project knocked out in lightning fast speed, last thing on a Friday afternoon. But whatever. He’s just here to facilitate whatever goofy ideas a guy like Harry might come up with – and considers it a fun challenge, anyway, to see how efficiently he can pull something like this off. The experience might come in handy for much more legitimate projects down the road.
He has noticed, though, that folks in...2022-10-2910 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 20With the promotion of Edgar’s mom to deli manager, this means that the part time fuckup Steve is now into his fourth administration. Having arrived on the scene before Dolly, even, and outlasting not only her but everyone who’d been around in the deli prior to his arrival, including the previous merchandiser, the wine enthusiast.
“Hey, it’s a warm body,” Corey is known to shrug, whenever anyone mentions Steve, “at least he always shows up.”
And yet while this response seems like a sane, measured one, it highlights one of the major fault lines ru...2022-10-2408 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 19The sixth and seventh columns of the new items spreadsheet are dedicated to cost and retail, respectively. Cost obviously doesn’t appear on their shelf tags, and there’s nothing they are doing within the Orchestra system that involves these numbers – the monthly margins are calculated at the invoice level, i.e. the sums coded to each department based on how AP is entering them. They are giving their shipments the ol’ eyeball test on the back dock, but there is no check-in process otherwise, no logging of item by item inventory into their system.
The cost on this...2022-10-1815 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 18Liberty Avenue remains his least investigated outpost thus far, for obvious, business related reasons. Even if in many respects still his favorite to visit, because it is so chill, there’s not enough going on to justify driving over there more than once or twice a month. Even regarding the price updates, which, at Corey Brown’s suggestion – and a genuinely good idea he had, for once – they are now batching to crank out at all stores every Monday, only on Mondays, the Liberty crew is doing a great job of responding to these on their own, without Edgar needing...2022-10-1412 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 17Still, there is one aspect missing thus far from his repertoire with the Healthy Hippie Market, somehow, even eight months into this experience. And it will take the Palmyra crew to begin resolving this oversight, however indirectly. When word begins to circulate that the newest guy in the deli, Dave, is also a musician, and that he’s playing out this Friday night in Chesboro, a decent chunk of that store’s workforce makes plans to attend together. One day Edgar happens to be up there, and is thrown an invite as well.
This episode is also avai...2022-10-0414 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 16He hates to see Dolly go. She was one of his earliest and most vocal champions, and this isn’t something he takes lightly, or will ever forget. Also, as a sidebar, it’s worth noting that she was continually trying to hook Edgar up with her daughter, and while this didn’t happen, he appreciates the effort.
These twin topics are dominating his thoughts, in the wake of Dolly’s firing. As is always the case, a circling of the wagons is enacted between the survivors, taking stock of what this shakeup means. An assessment of which al...2022-09-3005 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 15Once a week, after going through the invoices, Edgar emails the department managers, spelling out what they could have ordered cheaper elsewhere, and/or should have for possible some other reason, like quality. The vendor and the item number are after all listed on their shelf tags, are two of the fields on the new items spreadsheet. Merchandisers are copied on these emails, although the degree to which they’re involved with product ordering itself ranges from heavily (Christie) to pretty much introducing new item lines only (Dale). Harry Redcrow as always seems to not have much faith in th...2022-09-2610 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 14The Hobart Scalemaster program is Edgar’s clunky if just barely passable portal into adding and editing items on the deli and produce scales, at Southside and Palmyra both. While Liberty does have one all purpose scale in back that everyone uses, it has never been online, and this is considered no great loss. If anything is ever needed there, he jots down a note of it, and does so the next occasion where he’s in the store. They have one catchall PLU number labeled “miscellaneous item,” which they can use in a pinch, crossing that out to write in...2022-09-2109 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 13The fifth column on the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to package size. While not nearly the headache represented by brand names, these also need to be uniform. You couldn’t spell out ounce half the time but abbreviate it to oz the rest; similarly, you couldn’t put a period behind lb on occasion yet omit it on the remainder. And this said nothing of the whole metric versus standard dilemma, within which often the vendor catalogs or even product lines themselves weren’t even consistent. The same often applied to liquids, occasionally abbreviated as fl oz and occasi...2022-09-2014 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter TwelveAs such, while yes, maybe she is partial to Edgar, Glenda feels there is at least one major reason to be: his experience almost always neatly matches her own. He’s the kind of guy that would keep his lips zipped about these individuals — but if you asked, as a confidential, business-related inquiry, will admit his own take on the situation. She brought up Pat one day to him, and Edgar chuckled, said that DiStazio reminded him of kid in high school who would have had his papers sticking every which way out of a Trapper Keeper, clearly a runaw...2022-09-1607 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter ElevenThis episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-eleven/2022-09-1307 min
Jason McGathey“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter TenEdgar wouldn’t say he’s gotten to know Christie extremely well just yet. They are on friendly enough terms, however, to chat briefly in passing about even non-business related matters. Or for him to become her desperation last resort when, as the day of an event at Liberty Avenue approaches, to ask if it might be possible for him to man the grill.
He normally has weekends off, of course, so it’s going to take some convincing. Or not even that, really, for in truth he’s already liking the sounds of this, from a networki...2022-09-1213 min