I'm not going to lie: I'm a little ashamed of you right now.

Here comes an afternoon's worth of 60-degree temps, sunshine and delight - and yet there you sit tinkering away with the computer keyboard and disappearing every hour to take a cat nap in the ladies room.

Then Ani DiFranco comes to Bull Moose for a free show this afternoon and you're nowhere to be found. I sure didn't have any trouble inventing an important "meeting" right around 1:00 pm. But then, I s'pose I'm just one of those dedicated people who doesn't allow lunch hour restrictions and suspended driver's licenses to get in my way.

The aisles of Bull Moose in Scarborough were lined with CDs and Ani fans this afternoon for the free show. The performance was a nod to tomorrow's Record Store Day - an event conceived of by Chris Brown of Bull Moose.

Although still in its infancy, Record Store Day can brag about how it's "like, really popular in Europe."

Check out all the free in-store performances happening at all Bull Moose locations in ME and NH: www.bullmoose.com

As for you DiFranco fans who missed today's musical get-together, fret no more. Stop your crying. Seriously. Get yourself together.

There are still tickets for tonight's performance at Merrill Auditorium and it's nearly free - as in "$42-isn't-free-at-all." [Tickets]

And the next time an internationally recognized singer/songwriter comes to town for a free show in the middle of the workday, just remember: Steady paychecks will come and go. But that in-store performance will last forever.

These people ditched work for Ani DiFranco