Yep, it's mid July again, and that can only mean we're heading for North Carolina. Greg and I will be conducting business from the wireless-equipped decks of our respective beach houses as needed. This year there seems to be a pretty good pile of stuff to work on when we're not out on the beach or trying to turn over the Hobie Cat in the Sound: we're into the wrap-up phase of the new IBR capabilities of PolicePro, writing all the exception stuff that will catch errors or non-tagged required fields for the reports; compiling the final system for a Child Advocacy center that will be going in service the week we return; and enabling all the new Filemaker 9 capabilities that we can now talk about since yesterday's public release of FM9. It's been tough keeping quiet on this stuff, with the huge new SQL and Oracle data exchange and some of the PDF changes they've brought about. We're fired up now and ready to go with a bunch of it.

In the meantime, there's the daily trip up to the Crab Pot for fresh fish, Jimmy Buffett music playing in the bar there, our three busy beach houses and the nicest stretch of unoccupied beach on the East Coast. I've been hitting this place for over fifty years now, and it never fails to deliver. I hope everyone out there has a place like this in their lives, whether it's a beach, a mountain lake, whatever... this stuff is irreplaceable.