Dear Friends,

It is peak foliage season here in Vermont and if you don’t mind going 10mph in a 40mph zone, it is a beautiful season. I even had to wait for a guy stopped in the middle of the one-lane covered bridge taking pictures on my way to work the other day. Sitting on my porch last night I was simply amazed at the quilt-work of colors, reds, yellows, browns, greens and infinite shades in between.

Every year a friend and former Small Dogger, who owns the local general store, does a big lobster buy. I got a call this morning from another friend who also happens to be from Chicago and well, lobsters, friends and the Cubs in the NLDS, sounds like a party! Hapy, who I dropped on his head as a kid, is a Giants fan so I look forward to seeing the Cubbies break this mythical even-year Giants thingy.

Hadley and Eric have finished installing our new phone system and the cut-over was last night. Hopefully, our call quality is vastly improved and that alone should stimulate sales. We have been running our own phone servers based upon open source software but now are relying upon a hosted PBX provided by our local phone company.

While hurricane Matthew seems to have bypassed Key West we send our best to those in the path of this dangerous storm. Stay high and dry!

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive features the Apple 2TB Time Capsule and my periodic rant about backing up your data. Too many times, customers come in with failed hard drives and when we ask about their data backup they have this strange embarrassed stressed face. Everyone knows that you should back up your data but so many do not. Why not make it easy on yourself? With Apple’s Time Capsule, not only do you get a state-of-the-art wireless access point but you also get 2 Terabytes of wireless backup capacity. With Mac OS X Time Machine you can completely automate backing up your data so if you end up at our service counter you can just smile knowing that your priceless pictures and data is safe. This week only for Kibbles & Bytes readers you can get the Apple 2TB Time Capsule for only $269.99!