Happy Tuesday,

We’re in the midst of what might be the hottest weather we see this year. With temperatures pushing 100 degrees and dewpoints in the upper seventies, the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for today. We are fortunate that our headquarters is only a stone’s throw from the Mad River, and I’m sure many of us will be swimming around lunch time.

It was a great Independence Day long weekend. The Prickly Mountain bunch came up with a show-stopping float for the Warren parade. Don wrote in his daily report to the company,

“The Prickly Mountain Float this year was spectacular—it was a gigantic whale (about 45 feet) with a huge opening mouth and an articulated tail. We had an oil derrick with a BP exec hugging it leading the whale by 50 yards or so. Every now and then we would put on the show—the whale’s huge mouth would open and we would swallow the oil derrick. Once inside the whale (also known as a sauna—it was so hot) we quickly wrapped “ocean” around it, changed the oil derrick to a wind turbine, and spit it out complete with a Poseidon—all to the cheers of the crowd. The whale had a blow hole and Jim Sanford spent the entire time with an Indian handpump squirting water at the crowd. We made him spray us down, too, since it was so hot.”

Technicians are working through a batch of early 2008 white MacBooks, cleaning them and testing them so we can be confident to call them “Small Dog Refurbished.” They are covered by AppleCare and Small Dog warranties until May of next year, and are a truly excellent value.

As always, thanks for reading, and stay in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com