We talked about naming the course Blue Stem Plains and this hole will have the blue-stem grass planted along it.

He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitcher was that he kept composed and threw pitches.

No two ways about it, the July report is bad news. We will have the highest (jobless) rate in the country, or be darn near it.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over. This is a county issue. I understand that this is an unsafe road. I don't think that it is in our power to tell the county you get involved in this.

We don't want to put conditions, because we can't put conditions, but lets put a feel-good statement out there that has no meaning. We were told we can't make all these warm fuzzy good motions. If it's in the city then that's an issue. The Community Development Commission isn't in charge of making everybody feel good.

He's pretty good. It's going to be fun to watch him progress.

It's not so much a rah?rah type of thing. It's just going after it every day. It's 140 games. When we were going well, 11?game winning streak, little things were happening. Balls were falling in. Guys were just competing. We have to do the same thing when we're struggling. These kids compete every day.

There were many days that I worked late into the night to get that car finished in time, ... but at 5 p.m. on July 1, the car was started, tuned, and John drove it home. We had worked over 480 man-hours, but it was all worth it to see the smile on John's face. To work on a car like this is a dream.

Tim told me that the car had to be done by July 2 for John's class reunion. That gave me 47 calendar days to restore the car from bare frame to a completed car. Let me tell you, there were days that I didn't think it was going to happen.

Alice ... girls' night out, set in the audience of a Chippendale dancers performance.

The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.

You can even look at the hot-selling Mustang as kind of a glorified economy car.

[The 12th hole actually has two lakes.] You could easily meet demise on this hole, ... Waterloo.

It's mostly concentration, being consistent every day with his early work and preparing himself for a game. When he watches the ball all the way through and gets good pitches to hit, he has a chance. You start getting frustrated and when you get frustrated you get in a slump, so to speak. You're overdoing things. You're trying to do too much. That's what he got into.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over.

Right now he's just taking it one pitch at a time and trying to get good pitches to hit. He's been working his tail off. I've been real happy for him the last week or so.

Most businesspeople are properly skeptical of government programs labeled 'streamlined,' ... I'm skeptical of the burden this is placing on some smaller businesses. I'm skeptical of government's efforts to force retailers to charge taxes for an incredible number of municipalities around the country.