I will be meeting later today with a private developer to see if we can build affordable housing on 14 acres within city limits.

Say a casino cage clerk makes $12 an hour. That's about $24,000 a year -- not enough to support a family of four.

The recent salute to veterans motorcycle rally brought at least 15,000 bikes and 50,000 visitors to town.

I've had a great day today. I flew for thirteen hours and I somehow didn't watch t.v. the whole time. I didn't notice until I was off the plane. I wonder what I was thinking about. I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

There's a real danger today, if political leaders in Baghdad do not step up to the responsibilities, that they will become increasingly irrelevant to the people of Iraq. And that country will tip into sectarian warfare, which will essentially, I think, leave us with very few options in terms of continued presence of our military forces.

There's always anticipation. I've been watching the Weather Channel, trying to figure out in my mind what will happen (today) and when early hitting will be.