In many ways, I've got a great situation downtown. In many ways, the store is exactly what I wanted it to be. The store is functioning at a very high level. It would be crazy to move.

But sometimes I daydream about what it would be like to have twice the space. To be able to fill it with fresh clean fixtures. To be able to properly display and organize my merchandise. To have parking spots in front of my store. To have a store like my wife's, where thousands of people drive by every day.

To have a fresh, clean space to start over.

It's a moot point. I signed my lease several years ago when rents weren't quite so crazy; and I still have a ways to go. I have a realistic chance to make money, almost for the first time in my career.

And yet, wouldn't it be cool to design a store from the ground up.

Ah, well.