Well, I just got told my our boss that we got a comment. I have to say, thanks that made my day! I'm sorry for the delay of this blog, I should have gotten it up sooner. I hope everyone doesn't mind reading a delayed blog.

So, the fourth rolled around, of course our windows didn't have the Star Spangled Banner on them. Mostly we had a couple instruments that were blue and white, but none that were really red. But I found out on the Monday after the fourth, that the Judging for the windows competition was actually on July 2nd. So it wouldn't have mattered had we gotten our windows decorated or not. The winner was the Laughing Dog, but next year... we'll get them!

At Adona Music, We hosted Charles Baron from Remember When. Basically, for all who don't know Mr. Baron, he is a Frank Sinatra singer. He sings songs by Frank Sinatra as well as song that are around the time that Sinatra became really famous.

I supported Mental Flossing by going to their 2:15 show at the Theater. They were really good and they had a full house.

He started his act at a little after one thirty. Before then, we had a nice keyboard plus Alan performance. It was fun watching my boss play with someone else for the first time. Alan does play with a group every once in a while but I've never actually seen him play before. Occasionally during Mr. Baron's performance, Alan would sneak back up to the stage with a trumpet to play for a little bit.

There were several people who came by to enjoy the music. At one point, we nearly had a full house of people listening to Mr. Baron's voice. It was a pretty good gig all in all.

There were a lot of people coming through to use us as a bathroom though. I heard that there were a lot of people going into the local restaurants to use them as potties as well. Though, as the saying goes, “When you gotta go, you gotta go.” So I'm not at all being harsh to the small amount of people who did stop in to use the facilities, but it would have been nice for you guys to have stopped and listened to Charles for a few minutes. You know? I do understand that port-a-potties are gross, but if everyone's using the same bathroom isn't it the same?

I didn't stay long after we closed the doors because I ride my bike home. I didn't want to go home in the dark. But I could still hear the fire works from my apartment.

As you guys probably noticed on our homepage, there's been an update of the on line store. Please, please please! Go there. My Boss, Alan, would appreciate even the smallest interest into the store. Other than that, what else has been going on, on the website? I altered the front page so that the slideshow doesn't cause movement as bad as it did before. Then I changed the Blog's header to a star pattern, I think it looks interesting and pretty much fantastic.

It's July second, two thousand and nine years, and we're a full day away from the everlasting and ultimate judgment of our community, The Fourth of July. To spring off the celebration, we'll be hosting in house “Remember When.” I'm sure it'll be a really good performance for us, and I'm hoping that a lot of people don't mind stopping by to listen (after all I'm sure the amps will be bellowing out the doors to entice some nice lovely celebrating people into the store).

However, there is exactly one thing that's been on my mind the whole time that I've been waiting for this fourth of july. Painting the windows of the store. Or should I be more clear in what I mean? Downtown H-Burg (local thing, you'll get used it after a while... apparently the 'arrison' is just too much to say and type out) is hosting a contest between venues and store fronts to see who can make up the best design for their windows. Honestly, I'm kind of jealous that 'Laughing Dog' already has their windows completed while ours looks sadly plain and boring. Why can't we have decorations too?!

I even suggested that we have the Star Spangled Banner written in notes as well as words so that people can sing along if they so choose. Furthermore, I suggested that we make a white, red, and blue (reversing the order takes some getting used to I think) montage of instruments varying from guitars to drums sets. But no, I am still attached to the computer ( as a webmaster seems to be) and the windows are... naked and looking rather sullen that no one seems to want to come up to them and whisper the Star Spangled Banners. Maybe our windows are patriotic too? Have you ever thought about that? Maybe that are glad they are in the US where there hasn't been on brick thrown through them. Can any other window boast that? Well, I guess they can if they are still standing in their frames...complete and whole.

From where I sit, I can see the many flags that line the parade route (Mind you it goes right in front of our store, how can we look plain on the day of patriotic feeling? Why aren't we letting ourselves be proud for the music that changed our country?) flying listfully in the wind. They are still asleep, but they will be dramatic and unfurled with all the rest of the Fourth's decorations. Perhaps I am being a bit selfish, perhaps I'm being a bit odd, and perhaps I'm being a bit hypocritical (after all wasn't it just Monday evening that people were firing off fireworks at my apartment complex at 12:02 in the morning...) in that I have not really stepped forward into the arms of the Fourth, but that does not change this itty bitty thing.

I want to win.

Yes, I said I want to win.

You want me to say it again or are we through with this cat and mouse game of repetitious lines? I want to win because I've never been at a store or a job that could and does have the ability to really make the Fourth a great time. In fact, I think the last time that I really was excited about the fourth was when I was six. So why can't we make those windows, those plain... clear... and very naked windows the talk of the town? Why can't they be the best, the brightest, the most fantastic windows around town? Why do I keep using overly dramatization for this point? I'm not sure, I think it's to make an impression, and I hope it's a positive one.

Let us make the windows colorful! Demand it!