Dateline Woodstock
More than a few readers out there have asked when we would be posting the current link to the Vermont Foliage Cam. There's good news and bad. The good news is that very colorful foliage is progressing southward from the northeastern corner of Vermont (aka the Northeast Kingdom, or just The Kingdom) about a 2 ½ hour drive towards Woodstock. Most years, peak foliage hits Woodstock on October 12th and there's no reason to think that this year will be any different. What makes one foliage year better than another is the condition of the trees about the time Mother Nature is telling them "STOP -- go into hibernation." This year we had a very wet June and July so the leaves (mostly sugar maples in the hills around Woodstock) grew to be very dense. A few years ago, we suffered a significant summer drought so the maple leaves were very brittle and thin. When the first wind and rain of Autumn hit around mid-September, the leaves came tumbling down, leaving at least 42 busloads of tourists scouring the naked branches of sugar maples, usually ablaze with an intense display of yellow, orange, and red. Not Autumn 2009 however. Judging from the fact that you can't find a place to park anywhere on Main Street after 8:30am, we'd say that the town is buzzing with tourist activity - which makes the merchants of Woodstock very happy, but sometimes aggravates the townspeople who sometimes tend to forget who pays the rent. Foliage season does require some readjustment of our lives however. For example, there's only a very narrow window of time when you can get anywhere near the Post Office in downtown Woodstock. Most likely where you live, the Postal Service actually delivers mail. Here, we have to go fetch it because, if the postmaster were required to deliver mail, then he would have to lock the Post Office while he was out making his rounds. We're not certain of this, but we guess there is some Post Office Regulation that requires a Postmaster to lock the Post Office when no one is there. Doesn't that sound like a regulation that the US Postal Service would have come up with sometime in its 234 year history? We're sure that more than a few Woodchucks eschew picking up their mail until after the tourists are back on their busses and life in Woodstock settles back to its normal solitary state, that is, until Ski Season cranks up about mid-December. A recent study by the American Association of Junk Mail Producers (AAJMP) indicates that the mail contains 82% bills, 15% catalogs, and 2% pre-approved credit card applications. So what's the hurry, they figure? The bad news? Oh, the foliage cam got eaten by a porcupine last week. Sorry.

The MISys guys have just returned from exhibiting at the Intuit ISP Summit in Chicago. With over 500 Intuit Enterprise resellers attending the MISys guys had their hands full answering questions and demonstrating MISys SBM for QuickBooks. The guys also showed off the new MISys SBM Shop Floor Control module http://www.misysinc.com/misbm/shop_floor.php. If you missed us in Chicago plan to attend the Next Generation Accounting Solutions Conference Nov 9-12 in Orlando, FL http://www.sleeterconference.com/. We'll be exhibiting at the conference and look forward to seeing you.

MISys SAE Training Scheduled
Users of our legacy manufacturing system MISys SAE should mark their calendars for the comprehensive training workshops starting October 19-23. If you don't think you're getting the most benefit from your investment in this software, or if you have hired new staff members who have never been trained on every aspect of the program, don't miss this opportunity to get everyone trained for one low fee. For a detailed agenda, contact MISys Customer Service at 802/457-4600 or click here to register online.

New Labor Tracker Released
Anyone who needs to capture the exact amount of labor spent of their production jobs should be interested in the new Labor Tracking module for MISys SBM version 4.0. Click here to view or print a fact sheet on this new product. If you like what you see, you can download a free trial to use with your MISys SBM 4.0 sample data. Just click the link that is displayed in the InfoCenter panel the next time you log into MISys SBM.

Visit MISys at Intuit Summit 2009
QuickBooks consultants and resellers who are planning to visit the Intuit Solution Providers Summit 2009 in Chicago next month should make the MISys booth a "must see" to learn why MISys SBM is the hands-down choice for manufacturers who run their businesses with QuickBooks. Ask to see version 4.0 which adds market-beating shop floor control capabilities to QuickBooks.

MISys will be at the Next Generation Accounting Solutions Conference Nov 9-12 in Orlando, FL http://www.sleeterconference.com/. Come see us in the Exhbitors hall and don't forget your Mickey Mouse ears!

QuickBooks consultants and resellers who are planning to visit the Intuit Solution Providers Summit 2009 in Chicago next month should make the MISys booth a "must see" to learn why MISys SBM is the hands-down choice for manufacturers who run their businesses with QuickBooks. Ask to see version 4.0 which adds market-beating shop floor control capabilities to QuickBooks.