ByMike Moffit

Dear Friends,

It’s a heat wave in Vermont! The first official days of summer set new temperature records here in the north country. Our normal warm days and cool nights turned into hot days and humid nights. It was definitely not a three-dog night as I had to keep pushing Hammerhead out of the way because he generated too much body heat. We should be back to the normal pattern of 70s during the day and 50s at night this weekend.

All of the newly announced Apple products are starting to come in, with the notable exception of the new MacBook Pro with Retina display. We have gotten a few of those in, but all signs point to a very scarce supply of these top-of-the-line units for the next several weeks. Get your order in now and we will ship them first come, first served as the supply becomes available.

I am very happy to announce a new member of our management team. Matt Curran has joined the company as our Assistant Controller and will be working with Hapy and the rest of the accounting team. Matt moonlights as an NCAA Football Umpire and with Hapy, Matt and Nick, we have a substantial “front line.” These guys may be big, but Rob, Artie and I figure our craftiness, speed and dirty play should be able to give them a run for their money in touch football.

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