Hi Guys,

As you know, I'll be heading down to Hogtown (Toronto) this weekend and will be taking in the Cambridge Show on Sunday after sitting through The Sound of Music stage show with my wife on Saturday night. It promises to be a very depressing affair, I'm sure, but the resource conference will probably ok :)

Do you guys get many calls from your IR dudes? I get some and I have to give them a lot of credit for picking up the phone and making that call. It's got to be hard to call up your investors at times like this. I find the best of them just commiserate but are letting you know they're still there.

Anyways, that is how I expect the whole show to be. There may be optimism under the rubble but certainly it will be a quiet show and a much different atmosphere than the typical excitement.

My main objective for all the companies I'll be stopping at will be to find out about their finances and how they plan to weather the next year or so. I'm less concerned about drilling or results at the moment but more about survival.

So please forward your questions to the board and I'll trust that Baires does his usual best to compile the list for me and thank you in advance for that Baires. Your efforts are always most appreciated. I just want to say that this is a fantastic board and it's a real pleasure interacting with you all. I appreciate everyones efforts. Right now, I consider it almost a support group!

Lastly, I can't promise I'll ask him every question or remember everything he says but I'll do my best. I'll also be looking at other companies and will share my thoughts on some of those as well.

We'll find out if those hills are still alive!