Happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

Every one has their own traditions for each holiday whether it be Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, 4th of July, Oktoberfest, whatever. For the Allen family the Fourth of July means to generally watch a parade (which I was unable to watch due to work this morning), then have some BBQ, eat some birthday cake for Christopher, watch 1776, then watch some fireworks. I am happy to report that we did all of these! It was a great time today. Tons of fun and now it is past midnight and we are tired! Who would have known that little Coralville, Iowa would have such a big fireworks display!

Found: Trombone Comic

This one was sent to me by my dad, Dr. Donald Allen. Enjoy!

Solving a Pet Peeve

I have been updating my iTunes library and one of the issues I have been working on resolving is that I don't have any high-resolution images of trombone album art. It is really easy to find hi-res pop music album covers, but if you have ever looked for trombone stuff, you really only get small thumbnails from online cd stores. Often times even Amazon doesn't have an image. I have started scanning 500 x 500 images. I have put them up on my Picasa site here. I will keep them up and update it as I get new things. Give me suggestions for cd covers you might want.