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ServiceMaster has wasted no time taking the Peabody Place sign down. Work is also beginning on the exterior and interior.
(cont.) …but for some other tenants who left the mall, I’m less confident that their departures were not, in fact, reflections on Wolfchase… stores like The Disney Store (which I would’ve been standing directly in front of, here) or Starbucks, down on the lower level of the mall. (I mention Starbucks specifically because it seemed like they disappeared about the same time as that Teavana store you see across the way; my personal theory is that, what with all the recent-ish kerfuffle between Starbucks and Simon over the Teavana deal, the only way Starbucks was able to close the Teavana store was by closing the Starbucks proper as well. But I digress.)
To its credit, Wolfchase has been able to backfill most of the growing number of vacancies that have cropped up in recent memory, but by the same token, with national mall chains dwindling, the newcomers have been increasingly… what’s the best way to put this?... lower-end? I dunno. Just… not as upscale, you know? (Not that I’ve ever considered Wolfchase upscale; in fact, I think it’s the most accessible mall to all crowds in the Memphis metro insofar as tenant mix is concerned, as I wrote recently on Discord [see photo note]. But still.)
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
January 30-31: On a trip to Iowa to volunteer for the Bernie Sanders campaign!
Pentax K-S2, Kalimar 35-70/2.8
Single in January 2016
What was the Garden Center at the former Clover Store in Cherry Hill. It is now occupied by Servicemaster.
keep chairs and other furnitures clean and looking like new in an office area with a top-notch commercial upholstery cleaning service in Chicago. www.servicemaster-mb.com/residential-upholstery-cleaning.php
I bought this can with a few others at a yard sale years ago. It was completely covered in grease and dust. After a good washing, it came out nice and clean.
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Kyle isn't feeling well...Kidney stones and all.
*update he was fired for the work he missed (four days total). He had doctors notes, was on narcotics (rendering not only unable to physically do his job, also legally. Working for TERMINIX as a tech he drove a truck most of his work day) and was suffering from a great deal of pain caused by abnormal complications that the doctors told us had the potential to lead to kidney failure had it not been treated properly and most importantly, immediately.
We've since found out that TERMINIX makes a common practice of treating their employees this way, hiding behind legal contracts signed upon hire. Essentially making it impossible to take legal action against the company for unethical and in some cases unlawful treatment. This is what they're doing to their employees, imagine what they're doing to their customers.
Do some googling there is a lot of information regarding unethical and in some cases unlawful treatment of employees and customers from TERMINIX and SERVICEMASTER their parent company.
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Yesterday I was admonished on my own photostream by one of my contacts for the obsessive nature of my comments, titles, asides, which make it clear that I support Barack Obama in his race for the Presidency. This little dust-up, which irritated me, got me to thinking about what is and what is not appropriate to post-up here, and what is and what is not appropriate to say about the images that I put up here.
Obviously, the wild political statements that I make about these photographs are not literally true about the photographs. I do not know the people in these photographs---many of them, most of them, or perhaps all of them are dead---and they may well have been rock-ribbed Republicans who would never have dreamed of voting for Barack Obama if they had been given the chance.
Certainly I do not mean to mock, demean, or denigrate the people in these photographs---I figure that the Flickites who come over here will know my views are mine alone, and bear no real relation to the photos.
Is it wrong of me to make my political views known on Flickr? That's my next question. Is Flickr just somewhere to put up pretty pictures so we all can gather round and ooh and ahh and say, "Isn't life grand?"
Flickr to me is a much more private space than my front yard. Some people, perhaps because they're apolitical, perhaps because they don't want to offend the neighbors, choose not to put up political signs in their yards. Me, I'd have twenty-five out there if I could get them.
So if I'd put a sign out in my yard, I certainly am going to put a metaphorical sign up on Flickr. This is like coming into my house---I'm not going to hide The New Republic from you because you might think I was a liberal. I am a liberal. There you go, I said it, I am a liberal.
To complicate matters, however, I do have my conservative tendencies. One of my greatest disappointments about the Bush era is that I thought, along with all the things I didn't like about him (back in 2000), that at least I was going to get a fiscal conservative, someone who at least would continue Bill Clinton's balanced budgets (oh, I forgot, Bill Clinton actually had us drawing down the deficit at the end of his term). Instead, of course, after eight years of Bush we find ourselves at the bottom of a Grand Canyon of debt---we had a spendthrift Republican president and a spendthrift Democratic congress.
I want Barack Obama to win not because I agree with him, point-by-point, on everything he says. I want him to win because I think, on balance, that he will do a better job (actually, a much better job) leading our country than John McCain. Any President will do some things I disagree with. No President will be perfect. Any President will make compromises that are more or less disagreeable. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, for Christ'ssake. What could be more un-American than that?
I have a friend up in Greensboro named John Fisher. Actually, I guess I'd say that John is my best friend, though I only see him once a month or so, and, for various reasons, we don't communicate much by phone or email.
I first worked for John back in the 70's. He owned a Servicemaster franchise, and I cleaned carpets and furniture for him. He was the best boss I ever had. He never got flustered, he never was unreasonable, but he let you know exactly what he thought and what he wanted done. If we broke something or messed something up, like some woman's Tiffany lamp that came over with her ancestors on the Mayflower, he could go out and talk to the client and make it right. I got really close to John and his family---sometimes I would stay for dinner after work, and he and Hazel even let me babysit their kids.
The only fly in the ointment was that John was a staunch Republican. He comes from a conservative religious North Carolina background and, well, it was just natural for him to have a conservative outlook. If he had gone to Duke I could have understood it better, but he went to Carolina, so I'm not sure where he went wrong.
Anyway, when Ronald Reagan came along, I couldn't take it anymore. My guy was down (Jimmy Carter) and getting kicked, and then when Mondale came along, and Reagan was already getting senile, my guy got kicked some more. John was gleeful in his ascendancy, and I was seething.
And to my shame, I let our friendship wither. And I let it stay that way for a long time.
And then finally, a few years ago, I reestablished contact with John, and for the past three or four years, we've been great friends again.
John is still the same old John. He was a dedicated supporter of Bush Two, and nowadays, he's a defender of Sarah Palin. She has more executive experience than Barack Obama, and thus is more qualified to be president, he says. I think there's a grain of partisan bias in his rhetoric, but my point is, he has his viewpoint, I have my viewpoint, and we're still friends. At times our talks get serious, and John will make a point or ask a question that forces me to challenge my own assumptions.
Our verbal sparring is pretty much non-stop, but it doesn't get in the way of our recognition of our common humanity.
So here's the bottom line: the Election is coming up, and my guy is on top. Barring the Invasion of the Pod People (think Cindy McCain), my guy is going to win. You got your licks in when your Guy was winning, and now, for a few days, I'm going to get my licks in. If you've got some comeback or rejoinder, if you want to wade into the fray, if you want to engage in some friendly Verbal Sparring, have at it. But this is my frontyard, and if I want to put up a sign that advertises my beliefs, I have that right.
After November 4th, when the caca hits the windmill and my guy has to actually begin to govern, we can get back to normal. For now, however, this rooster intends to crow.
One other thing---this is of course the reason that you should vote for Barack Obama, even if you don't agree with him about anything. He has a positive take on the future, and John McCain doesn't. Say what you will about Ronald Reagan---beyond his politics, he had that attitude of "It's Morning In America," and Americans responded to that, and they were turned off by Jimmy Carter's "malaise."
We have a helluva job ahead of us, righting this ship, and we're going to need all the positive we can get. Vote for Obama.
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When I first lived in North Carolina, back in the 70's, I moved from Charlotte up to Greensboro because I thought I might have a shot at getting in to the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Greensboro. Of course, that didn't happen. Instead, I had a series of dead-end jobs. After being fired from the first of these jobs, my cousin introduced me to this fellow, John Fisher. John had the Servicemaster franchise in Greensboro, and he gave me a job cleaning carpets and shampooing furniture. It was an interesting job, because John had a gift of gab, and we did excellent work, so we were kind of like the Cadillac cleaning company in the city. We went in to all the best homes in Greensboro, and some of those homes were swank indeed. Swank means that some of them had Renoir drawings hanging in the library (originals, of course). Swank means that at least one of them had bathrooms where all the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, were made of marble. Swank meant that one of the houses had two identical kitchens side by side, each with a Sub-Zero refrigerator and a commercial ice cube machine. I spent probably as much time absorbing my surroundings as I did doing my job.
I got to be good friends with John and his wife Hazel. They would invite me to stay after work sometimes for dinner, and I babysat their kids a few times. John and Hazel were deeply religious, involved with their church, thoughtful, generous, and willing to talk and argue (in nice ways) about most anything.
I stayed at that job for three years, and then I got involved in politics. I campaigned for Jimmy Carter, got accepted in the writing program at the University of Arkansas, and moved away. I kept in touch with John and Hazel for a while, but when Ronald Reagan got elected, John was excited and I was distraught, and, well, we drifted apart. And for one reason and another that's the way it stayed for some years.
My cousin who had introduced me to John told me at some point that John had developed MS. Maybe that was good enough reason to go see him, but I never did, even though at some point I had moved back east, first to Florida and then to North Charleston, South Carolina. Then I took an Executive Chef's job in Des Moines, and any idea of reconnecting with John went by the wayside.
Allright, I'll try to be brief: I was a bust in Des Moines, I took a new job in Cary, North Carolina as a sous chef, and finally, after years of dithering, I got back in touch with my friend John Fisher. John's health had deteriorated, but his spirits were high, perhaps he even was a more positive, forward-thinking, voice for common sense and decency than he had been before. Another person might have been depressed to be so limited physically, and beset by such recurring ailments. But John had found a way to focus on the good. No more job, no more stress, fewer financial worries, more time to devote to his friends and his community. And he was active as always, with his church, with community outreach programs, with his fellow sufferers of multiple sclerosis. His politics hadn't changed, but mrwaterslide got over that. In fact, John Fisher and mrwaterslide liked nothing better than a health political slugfest (that often evolved in to a challenging discussion of questions of real importance), over a good cup of coffee.
At a certain point, I, mrwaterslide (aka John Van Noate) needed a carpenter to make me some picture frames. I knew that the person to ask was John Fisher. I wanted a really good craftsman, but I had one special requirement.
"I need for you to find me a carpenter," I said to my friend John Fisher. "He needs to be an old guy."
"I know just the fellow," John Fisher said.
To be continued.
We chose to volunteer at a local 30-bed homeless shelter, The Good Neighbor. We were received with open arms by both the staff and residents in spite of all the noise we were making early on a Saturday morning. Due to flooding in the Carolinas, our team was short several volunteers who were out of town assisting with flood cleanup. However, thanks to the remaining dedicated volunteers, we were able to complete all of the tasks requested by the staff.
Our team did a thorough interior structure cleaning and deodorizing of the entire building and contents, cleaned all carpets, pressure washed the exterior of the building and walkways, and repaired all railing around the exterior or the facility. We provided the residents, staff and volunteers with breakfast and a delicious BBQ lunch, which was prepared by a local man famous for his BBQ skills. At our initial visit, we were told pillows were a desperate need, so we donated 30 new pillows and blankets so each resident would have a pillow and blanket as the cooler weather nears. We donated numerous personal hygiene items, and a local hair salon donated 30 free haircut vouchers for the residents. Several volunteers donated clothing, and one employee donated two handmade crocheted blankets that were placed in the common area for all to enjoy. It was a wonderful day of assistance and fellowship that was enjoyed by the residents, staff and volunteers.
This is the Guy* that came over to sop up all the water that spilled down two stories to the Basement Apartment after i left my Kitchen Sink Water on !!!
The Kookiest thing about this is that while i was sitting at my table, i had a line of sight view of the sink overflowing for about a half an hour !!!
i need to be institutionalized.
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* i am terrible about asking people what their names are !
Post wind storm damage to a historic mill building in downtown Manchester required Servicemaster and their big fans. This is a confluence of multiple pipes. I liked the colors and abstractness of them.
I have a lot of pictures to upload, but all i've been able to swing for the past few weeks are these darn webcam ones - here's Jack and me this morning, he just ate, and i'm getting him to settle down so perhaps i can put him down and like, finish my comic maybe :P
He's REALLY been a handful for the past four days. Wow. He's been grouping his feedings (meaning that he's hungry much sooner after each feeding rather than having them spread out throughout the day), AND he's been fidgety and requiring a lot of attention. Unfortunately for me, sometimes the only thing that quiets him down is to hold him, which leaves only one free arm to work on anything.
When he's awake, he's been really active, and it can be really hard to satisfy him. I did finally managed to get some sleep last night (poor sarah, she got the "both baby and mom had to change Servicemaster is coming to deal with the couch later today" treatment last night, so now he's real quiet and content... for at least a little while.
it's been just a few days after the fire at organic valley headquarters, but the clean-up ( and soon rebuild ) process is well under way. the parking lot is filled with yellow servicemaster fire and water damage recovery vehicles. the left (west) side from the red gambrel of the building is a total loss, but the right (east) side is salvageable to varying degrees.
the far right side is a new 33,000 square foot addition which was not significantly damaged and may be able to house employees quite quickly after getting a thorough cleaning.
I'm in a Stephen Stills mood on this hazy, hot, & humid day.
Yesterday ServiceMaster cleaned out our crawl space and told us they'd be back in a couple of days to put in the new insulation. They left their dumpster trailer in our driveway. I figured I'd take my SPs with it as a backdrop until it's gone.
Canon EOS 350D camera with a Sigma AF 18-200mm DC OS Zoom lens
iPhoto crop
07/30/09