Dear Friends,

I just learned about American Express’s Black Saturday promotion. If you register your AmEx card for the Black Saturday promotion and spend $25 or more with your card at a small business on November 27th, you will get $25 back from American Express. I know just the right small business for you to use that card, too!

Surf over to:
http://www.facebook.com/SmallBusinessSaturday?v=app_165267296827487

Register your card and come on in to any of our retail stores and get $25 back from American Express when you use your card at Small Dog Electronics!

We are gearing up for the holiday season and have some great special values set starting the day after Thanksgiving. Our stores will be opening early and staying open late to help you load up on the hottest products on the planet, right from Apple! I am going to try to put in some time at each of our stores on Black Friday.

We are very much into stick season here in Vermont with hunting season and the Northfield Sock sale under way. I did get out on the motorcycle last weekend to head over the hill to the sale and we took the long way home. It is so nice to ride this time of the year—you see things that are normally hidden by the leaves and foliage, so it is like discovering new roads even when we ride on a familiar route.

Matt asked me to write something about the Beatles for Tech Tails this week in honor of the release of the Beatles library on the iTunes store. I already have all that music since the Beatles have been the soundtrack for my life since the 60s; in fact I have vinyl, CDs (which I imported for my iPod years ago) and probably a few 45s kicking around. But Matt said, “I don’t know the Beatles.” I wonder what rock he was hiding under! I think it is great that a whole new generation can now discover the music of the greatest rock and roll band ever.