Knocked out one more book order, even though I pretty much had myself convinced to just wait a while. It's a medium sized order. I split the difference. 7 or 8 boxes.

Now to figure out what happened to the saxes and trombones. They shoulda' been here a week ago. This is an overnight supplier usually. And what happened to the tenor? Shoulda' also been here by now. The supply side of this business is dysfunctional to say the least. And it's costing me. I could've sold and or rented two of the saxes, but I didn't have 'em. And I paid for 'em a couple of weeks ago. I've still got the broken cello in the stock room waiting for Airborne to come out and take it away before I can get the credit for another. How many weeks ago was that?

Glad I checked. The saxes and trombones are in Connecticut. How? Somebody sent out my boxes with the wrong shipping label. Now who got the Connecticut order? I didn't. That means at least three stores are affected by the mixup.

The red, white and blue clarinets came in. And green and yellow too. Now these are US made. And they're in tune. And you pay extra for that. You pay even more for the Grenadilla wooden clarinets from France. Got those too. Nice stuff. And the big baritone horn. That'll run you about three grand. I bought it to rent out, but I'm not sure I want to now. There's no other place I know of in the region where you can walk in and buy one new. US name brand. Granted it's a small market for new horns of that size, but ya' never know. One or two little niches like that could be interesting. And what ten year old is gonna' want to lug that monster around when I've got the compact baritone? It's not much bigger than an alto sax overall. Wish I knew about those when I was young...

Unknown caller at home. Trepidation as I answer. Hi sir, I'm with David Bally's harp strings and wondered if you had a minute. Intrigued but how did they get my home number? Uhm, tell me more.. Well sir we just renovated our harp strings resort and wondered... click. That's hot springs. Annunciate...

In Sunnyvale, two Mexican restaurants side by side. Both have a sign in the window proclaiming the best burritos in town. I tried one of them. Best in town is a bit of a stretch though they're pretty darn good. Now I've got to try the other to be fair. My guess is both places are run by the same family. If so, what a marketing coup.