The major thrust is to bolster position in the long-distance market. There is way too much carrying capacity out there; what's really valuable is customers, and they're trying to establish a customer presence.

If you have a problem you can?t use that source any more. We?re definitely not going to use that (Los Rios) source until, if and when, we can prove this issue has been solved. Our hope is that when Frederick goes down there he can find and fix the problem. If he can?t, we will never use the source again.

I had a little more information on the hitters.

I'm proud of the kids. They never quit. They played well tonight. When we had runners in scoring position, we scored.

That's on hold now. We'll get 'em tomorrow. This just means it will come a day later.

It's understandable, though. The owners have a lot of money invested in their teams, so they didn't want to take a chance on their players getting hurt or have their season disrupted. It's just a shame that such a popular sport has been eliminated. Hopefully, after that first Olympics without baseball (2012), they'll miss baseball and see that it was a mistake to drop it.

It makes for a short supply chain and we?re able to find the source of problems such as this right away. If we used dozens and dozens of suppliers, it would be harder to isolate the problem. But even with our blends, we?re only talking a couple of different sources.

It's learning you. It's delivering the music you like and tracks your interaction with the music.

They?re pretty much screwing us over, but what can you do? We just kind of have to deal with it.

They still have all their stuff and their closets are full. It never occurred to me how difficult it might be to move into somebody's house with all of their stuff in it and then pick up, without a pause, in the normal day-to-day operations.