Various Topics

I hope that your holiday was wonderful. Nikki told me that you would be
working from home today, but I decided not to bother you there. I will try
to have Patti connect me with you during my commute on Tuesday morning. I
start with a 7:30 meeting (Houston time), so I should be in my car from 6:30
to about 7:15.

I let Nikki know about a rescheduled date from Rick's PRC last week. I don't
think that there had been any widespread communication about the new date of
June 27. Will you still plan to come to Houston next week? I have scheduled
dinner for us on Wednesday evening, assuming that you will still make the
trip. Just let me know. Will you also be back for the meeting on June 27?

Before you left for vacation I had tried to reach you regarding the MG
acquisition. That should make life fun for you! I wanted to talk about
resources and how I might be able to help in both the further due diligence
efforts and longer term in the assimilation. As in my voice mail, I believe
that a doorstep review of trading locations would be critical, both from a
controls perspective and from the perspective of an up close view of how they
run their business. It seems that might help jump start the plans around how
best to assimilate the business. I had suggested my new hire, Shona Wilson,
as a potential resource and then there are several of us who have already
been involved in doorstep reviews that could be involved both in the US and
in other locations. Brent has forwarded a memo to me from Naomi Connell who
seems to be formulating a plan for the doorstep reviews. I don't know the
names that she mentions (other than Tani Nath), and I am sure that she is
unaware of additional resources from Houston that could be used. We can
hopefully talk about that tomorrow morning.