You had warmer weather, a later Easter and a pretty robust economy still. But energy and things like that will be governing or limiting factors.

With cool spring weather retailers were unable to sell much seasonable merchandise in March. Easter is coming at the tail end this year. That means April will make or break their fiscal first quarter.

There's a little bit of a slowing effect in February because of the weather, coming on the heels of a very strong January. Consumer confidence is moderating.

It was a pretty good turnout in spite of the weather, and the crowd was very well behaved. We made a few disorderly conduct arrests, mostly of people who may have had too much to drink, but there were no serious incidents at all.

If we have colder-than-normal weather, we'll see a bit of a shock to the economy, ... I plan to put a sweater on at home.

It's been a steady quarter in terms of pricing and volume, with the shorter quarter making the headline numbers look a little soft.