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!