Random Thoughts is on break this week. That stems from the impact of flying from New Orleans after attending Avalara's Crush 2016 conference to San Jose, Calif., for NetSuite SuiteWorld, coupled with the impact of spending most of the day sleeping in a New Orleans hotel room following an unfortunate run-in with something microscopic that was probably hiding in one of these delicious Cajun dishes. As they say in the Big Easy "Laissez les bons temps Rolaids!"

Registrations for the Dynamic Communities user conferences are booming. With Microsoft abandoning Convergence, the conference landscape has shifted for users seeking content aimed at them. "We are so far ahead of where we usually are," says Andy Hafer, executive director of Dynamics Communities. The organization's events, AXUG Summit, CRMUG Summit, GPUG Summit and NAVUG Summit, are being held in Tampa, Fla., from October 11 through 14.

The fact that Avalara introduced its CertCapture Mobile Scan App this week was probably not the company's most interesting news this week. The greater interest for most lies with its first-ever user conference, Crush 2016, held this week on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. the sales-and-use-tax company, which likes to party in a big way, led many of the 250 conference attendees who showed up behind a Dixieland band down Bourbon Street to the different restaurants where food was offered on consecutive nights of the show.