We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.

The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they should level out again.

Soul is coming to the gym but security is pretty tight.

Some of us had been playing together on a travel team since we were fourth-graders. And we were pretty good. We had girls from all over the place, kind of like a Walsh County all-star team. I know that made it easier for some of us.

Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-Mart and Costco it really showed us that consumer spending had started to weaken on a fundamental level.

Despite some of the house sales data it looks as if the market is going to look for a pretty robust rise in construction activity.