I reported to the George R. Brown Convention Center at 7:30 in the morning Saturday to volunteer. After coffee and a little breakfast with Danish and muffin, I checked in with Dennis and was assigned to the NRA store on the convention floor. I learned how to ring out stuffs with the cash register for the first time in my life. All through out college, though I was in the retail business, I was involved rather with purchase orders and finance reports, more on the backend instead of front end of the business. I pride myself on knowing a little bit of everything, being able to survive and being useful in any environment, now that will include being a cashier!

Starting in the morning, there were only 5 protesters, out of the city of 4 million. At the height of the day, right before the evening banquet with the majority leader Tom DeLay, there were around 20 protesters, cordoned off with barricade by police. I think there were as many police officers on horseback as there were protesters.

I met up with Vergel and Michael for dinner at Molinas, a great Mexican restaurant with a really relax atmosphere near the Galleria. We did a lot of catching up for over two hours since we last saw each others in New York at the Republican National Convention last August. We went to a nearby Starbuck for a little nightcap before saying bye just before midnight, so much things to talk about.