The railroads were still pretty strained last year.

This weekend is going to be pretty cool and unsettled. Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms [Saturday] and Sunday.

As we must every year, we can expect some shocks to the system.

But we foresee no congestion at any of the key U.S. container ports going out at least six months. We're going to see the same kind of success we saw in 2005, with congestion at a minimum.

It's amazing how prevalent check fraud really is. By the time it comes here ... the merchants are pretty fed up.

We played pretty much from the cuff,