Brian's Morning Newsletter

February 10th 2010

Good Morning
Yesterday while Austin and Amelia were here we all went down to Jack's house to get a first look at the door Louie created for Jackson. I think there are enough pictures here I won't need to get too wordy except to thank Louie profusely from all of the Rodgers, "Thank you Louie."

Wow, what can I say? She's a beaut. The vertical boards are Douglas Fir, and Louie found Oak for the lower panel, and plate glass for the upper panel.

 Above the door is leaning against the wall where it will be installed next to the fireplace leading to the greenroom.

The Douglas Fir for the floor and the door came from Old Wood Floors in Las Vegas. Give them a call for all your flooring needs, and tell them Brian Rodgers sent you, it will help us all as David Old gave us a huge discount on the wood. I will post their information becasue they have a grade "A" product, and we are still short a little bit of money to pay for what we got. Please help, if you can.
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Above you see how the door fits aesthetically with the fireplace and new flooring. If I can get off my rear today I'll go down and see about doing the tile-work in front of the fireplace. Jona and Sara donated three square feet of tile-shaped slate, and epoxy grout. 

Above, I had a heck of a time catching Jackson with his eyes open, or Austin not picking his nose. The only one that seems to always be camera friendly is Amelia. 

Jackson is watching Austin and Amelia open two of the care-packages from Erin. "Thank you," to Erin and all her friends that came together to help Jackson in his time of need. In case you are wondering about the late opening, he's funny about gifts. We've had to tease and goad Jack to open  Christmas presents months after Winter was over. Anyway, he likes it when his nephew opens them for him.

Boy howdy, take a gander at that floor. Speaking of  quirkiness, I believe the next batch of teasing and goading is going to be getting Jackson to move in on top of his brand new floor.  "It is too beautiful," he says.

As you must have seen at the very top, I let my arrogance, as Mike calls it, to control my actions once again. I didn't really work on the Landscape painting for a long time, yet I feel I've made significant improvements, so I felt my work gets top-billing once again. So I guess Mike is right. I've justified my attitude many times and hopefully hold my arrogance to an acceptable level; just enough to keep my chin up, every morning of every day to continue writing positive goal-oriented ideals.

What are some of those ideals?
1> Need less – Consume less, even if it causes some people to become anxious, it makes me and my wife happier.   
2> Learn more old-fashioned skills. For every country style skill we as a family learn, we are brought closer together and ultimately need much less income to support ourselves. This is a win – win situation and more sustainable lifestyle.
3> Latest sustainable idea, get six family members and or friends together to purchase the Woodmiser portable sawmill and use it to build each participant[ant a house, shop or barn. It is my hope that we will be working together as a community to build timber-frame structures made with America's nearly forgotten natural resource, timber.
That's it, I hope you are lovin' life like I do.
Sincerely,
Brian Rodgers

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Wal-Mart Cuts Over 13,000 Of What It Calls Jobs

February 9, 2010 | Issue 46•06

 

BENTONVILLE, AR—Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced in recent weeks that, effective immediately, it is cutting as many as 13,000 of what it somehow has the audacity to refer to as "jobs" from its corporate payroll.

According to Wal-Mart representatives, the, for lack of a better word, positions will be cut from the company's underperforming Sam's Club division. Analysts reported that Monday's layoffs marked one of the largest so-called downsizings of what can hardly even be termed employment in the company's history.

 

"Obviously, it is a sad day whenever we have to let go of any of the people we have dehumanized so thoroughly that we can barely muster the will to describe them as employees," Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke told reporters. "However, this is a business, and we must do what we can to stay competitive while still paying our existing workforce what we actually refer to with a straight face as wages."

Sources inside the company confirmed that roughly 1,200 people will be forced to leave what one might very charitably characterize as their careers in the neon-lit dungeon known as the membership recruitment office. In addition, another 10,000 worn husks of human beings will be relieved of what it literally induces pain to say are their job responsibilities handing out free in-store samples to customers.

"We tried to solve the problem by cutting what is hard for me in good conscience to even call benefits," Duke said. "We even tried negotiating with what we would probably refer to as the workers' union if, in fact, they even had such a thing. But ultimately, our only feasible option, financially, was to make what I'm going to just lie and call a very hard decision and let go some of the faceless drones that I condescendingly refer to in public as members of our 'corporate family.'"

"There's no way I can actually say what I am about to say without literally inducing deep, hearty peals of unbelieving laughter from anyone within earshot," he added. "But all those laid off should still hold their heads up high."

Thousands of what it just feels really, really wrong to describe as anything other than wage slaves have responded to the layoffs with strong objections.

"It doesn't seem fair, after all the time I put in with this abusive prison state regarded for some reason as a company," said former membership recruiter Robert Weldon, 46. "Obviously, this is going to severely reduce the overall quality of the unceasingly grim reminder of financial hardships that I call my life."

Although many experts have deemed these layoffs an unfortunate reflection of the economic climate, instead of what they actually are, which is a borderline fucking human rights violation, a number of prominent analysts said current market trends show that Wal-Mart may soon recover from its current woes, as if anyone with an ounce of human decency even gives a shit.

"Clearly, this move signals what I'm coldly and unemotionally going to describe as a change in Wal-Mart's current business strategy, and statistics show that it may pay off for them in the long run," economist and author Jeffrey Fields said. "And as for the poor, exploited creatures whom I shall skirt the issue and refer to simply as workers, I'm sure they will be back on their feet in what no honest observer of the facts could possibly describe as no time."

Added Fields, "This is, after all, what we still somehow have the nerve to call America."

 

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