We are just so excited and so grateful. We've been able to experience so much that we didn't even know existed.... When we started out, we didn't have any money, but we had a dream. And we didn't ever give up.

That thing was thrown around in the broom closet a number of times.

Here we couldn't even afford carpet for our booth, and they were writing up our tools in the welding journals.

While many of our cast members are sports types, none of them had real, recent baseball experience. RLT is lucky to have one of the most-winning baseball coaches in our own back yard, Tom Woodruff, and we appreciate Coach Woodruff giving his time and talent to our production.

What Apple's producing with iPod is the total experience with hardware, software and services. That's the piece none of the other purveyors have figured out: how to make the thing a great experience from soup to nuts.

I'd like to believe that the country is ready, but I do have my doubts based on my own experience.