For the most part, what we're seeing is folks are ... selling their houses down in Montgomery County, moving farther west and making that commute down (Interstate) 70.

We wear respirators when we're in the houses. We've been taking mud out in wheelbarrows. You walk in a room and it just makes you want to throw up.

The houses were priced a lot higher than what we expected. I am glad on the flip side that the housing market is doing well, despite the job situation.

We used 30 minutes of studio time here and there when people had openings. We recorded it at various houses in this town and a few studios we can't mention. We had it mastered at Georgetown.

And there was nothing happening in Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Royal Dutch and Shell. If you owned those so-called great companies, you weren't too happy.

It's just stupid. When's all this stuff going to happen? What's going to happen between now and then? You invest because you see a trend that's real, because you see a real business.