We had at least four competing bids on almost every job, and we found everyone we used to be superior craftsmen. We think the home is significant to this town. It was good for these contractors to see this house.

They can't say now, with two teams in the Sweet 16, that we're overrated with too many (four) bids. We proved by our teams that we're successful.

They also know they are competing for a job, they are competing for a livelihood, ... We want to do everything within the rules, but we also want our people to play with intensity and competitiveness and the proper desire and determination to make the team.

This is far superior to where we were.

Pop told me he had about four guys almost tripped over cords. We had a couple of guys almost stumble off the platform, and somebody got mad at me because I was in the way of a cable.

I'm like everyone else in Steamboat -- I've got to have a job. That's a year, or at the very least, nine months, of unpaid leave. I can't afford that.