NOTES FROM MAUREEN AND MAT

Maureen and Mat had a very busy September--traveling much of the month to places like New Orleans, Portland, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Maureen's boss went to Scotland for 2.5 weeks, where his daughter is going to school, while Maureen looked after his office work in Washington. Both Maureen and Mat had meetings in New Orleans where they also have good friends who took them around the city. The place still looks pretty depressed after Katrina, they said. Maureen was headed for Las Vegas today for a meeting, before they go to Kalispell for a Jazz festival this weekend.

Maureen says that Fannie Mae is weathering the mortgage credit crunch quite well--since they do not generally handle sub-prime mortgages.