I thoroughly enjoyed the meetings. It gave us an opportunity to get together and look at the issues we felt were appropriate.

That gave us an opportunity to right the ship. We can remind them of that.

It's more compact but that gives us the opportunity to love on them more.

The last 14 Fed meetings have been anticlimactic. The Fed came, they saw, they tightened and told us to expect more of the same. Looking ahead, things are starting to get more interesting. The outlook for economy now is less certain.

It's not going to be town hall meetings where we try to get them to come us. We're going to go to them. The whole goal is to really get people talking about some of the good things that have gone on.

Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show.