Dear Friends,

Sweet corn season is here. If I ride over the mountain to the Champlain Valley (where the climate is mild), there is local sweet corn. The corn at our local supermarket gets closer every day. First, it was Florida corn a month ago, then Rhode Island, then New England corn.

I think our neighbor at the Neil farm will have sweet corn any day now, since the corn looks pretty good as I drive by the field on the way to work. Harvest time is here with lots of great stuff from the garden. I have been grazing in my yard eating blueberries, strawberries, grapes, Arctic Kiwi, raspberries and blackberries.

I have been getting acquainted with my new MacBook Air and it is one screaming machine. I have the special configure-to-order model with the i7 chip that we are stocking and I really appreciate the speed. The feature I love most is the new backlit keyboard when I work late at night.

Now I know that some people wonder how they will get along without an optical drive. I had one of the externals attached to my set-up at the office but I never used the drive. With the App store, most software is now a download and I no longer rent or buy DVDs because between the iTunes store and NetFlix, I can just download movies to my Mac. Apple again has a prescience of the market trends and sees that optical drives will soon go the way of floppy drives.

I want to give a huge shout out to Robert Garmhausen from Charlotte Street Computers in Asheville, NC. We were able to convince his boss, Jen Mayer, to loan her head Mac tech to us to help us overcome a huge backlog in service at our S. Burlington location. Robert was here all week and simply rocked the place and was a machine, cranking through the repairs and getting us caught up. Today, he leaves at the crack of dawn to head back south to Asheville for their tax-free sale.

If you ever need Mac stuff or repair in the south, I can give you my highest recommendation to Charlotte Street Computers and know their team will take great care of you! Thanks Robert!