Trying to carve out some more space in the house. I've been using Bella's room as a place to put some of the flotsam and jetsam I live with every day. She's gonna' want it all for herself - as it should be. So I've gotta' drag all my stuff out and find new places for it. See how much I can drag toward the garage. Excess inventory. Garage sale.

My business plan also shifts a bit. Told ya' I might have to do that. Not changing anything that's working - and a lot of it is working well. It's that pesky rock-n-roll gear that keeps coming back to haunt me. The only way to get it kicking is to play the MAP game. Minimum Advertised Price. That's the lowest the manufacturer will let you advertise the price. Below that and they have to say 'call for current price', etc. The cartel shops sell everything at MAP. List price is just an absurd number written somewhere on the tag. It's an experiment. If I can move the stuff at somewhere around MAP, and can't move it otherwise, why not? You have to accept that you're on somebody else's turf and at least play their game once and see what happens. It's a game of slim profits, but if it just sits on the shelf it isn't generating any profit at all. I'll try it with a few things and see. Either way I think I can hold out on my own turf. But it's a big chess game...

And while nobody was looking I stuck a few nice relics around the shop. Gibson, Ibanez, Fender, Jackson. They haven't yet been noticed. Check...