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Sunday March 13, 2016

We had a great event in the last two weekends and Pat and I and all our staff thank you for coming BUT we are tired and will recover in the next few days..........that is everyone else, I have a lot of work to do to decide on this VinNOW Pos system..........long story for the next few days....

Someone said this Pos problem is what I talk about rather than Tesla. Tesla is important but not as much as my winery. BUT

Here is an interesting link about Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DndUqALw7U

Monday March 14, 2016

I love my Tesla Model S 90D. It will go over 240 miles on a charge driving at 80 miles an hour...........But

Today I was off in my Model S and it was weird............

I have been busy with VinNOW and two weekends of rain but nice sales for our 2015 Futures.............

But I had not been in my Tesla for 10 days and I needed to get a blood test so I headed off to Healdsburg for the first time in 10 days. Gee, my Tesla was asleep. It said to be patient while we get up and running. Well I was not patient after big discussions about VinNOW so I just clicked and clicked and I got a reading to go into reverse...........I went out the garage and saw the big display was not working and also my side mirrors were not out........long story.........so I still saw a D for drive and headed up the road..........wow........it still was explosive..............

I went out and headed down Dry Creek Road.........there is a stop a quarter mile down the road so this rookie tail ended me and of course I knew there was a stop soon SO I stopped slowly and of course he was lost behind...........The Model S finally recovered but it took awhile in town BUT I still love my Model S............

We are still working with VinNOW. It is not working well with our "Futures" program. Most wineries who sell "Futures" send the wine off on a set date to pick up and we even want customers to change their order up until possession...........that is causing trouble with VinNOW and thus it may not work out...............I am patient so I will think about it for another day..............

Friday March 18, 2016

It has been another trying week. but first I have to say I just cut off most of my hair and I can see some skin, too short a cut at half inch, OK I could justify it, I am old...........so should I implant, wig it, or other possibility, I could be like Trump..........

It is sad to say: VinNOW will not work for our "Futures" program...........so the problem is we sell 2,000 cases by futures so we tried to find a software program, POS, maybe and none has worked out...................long story. We need QuickBooks! It is great for us, but it means we have to input all orders by hand. Pat has been working for 3 days to now duplicate every order into QuickBooks that was in VinNOW................ We still think VinNOW is a great program and most wineries would be fine with it. Brad may have a solution for the POS and it could be a Microsoft program. In the mean time we are looking for a secure source to process and store our credit cards.

We are heading up to Seattle this Sunday. We are selling our great house in Seattle because Susie may want to move down to the Silicon Valley. I love Seattle so I will miss it.......BUT I hope Susie may be up there a few more years and be in an apartment. So she will move to an apartment into a small place.........Our house is large and on a corner lot that has enough room in the center of the street for a semi truck........it has plenty of room to park my Tesla........So we are up to help her move to an apartment and then hopefully we will sell the house. As you know I like to get away in my Model S, so I will travel about 2,000 miles in pleasure.............



For any comments or questions I encourage any of you to e-mail.....david@coffaro.com

Dave


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