Exhibit 17.24

A hotel's selling points:

Located in beautiful downtown Houston one block from the Houston Toyota Center, Houston Rockets headquarters, and two blocks from the Houston Convention Center, Houston's biggest convention center. Astros fans, we are just 0.5 miles from Minute Maid Park and the Astros. We're also within a mile of Exxon-Mobile, Chevron, Shell, Meridian, Lyondell, Planned Parenthood, as well as restaurants and the Houston Theater District. In a hurry? Stop by our complimentary hot breakfast bar and pick up a warm cinnamon roll...

Clerk: Welcome. What brings you to our hotel?
Man: We're going to "take in an Astros game."
Clerk: In a hurry?
Man: Well...
Clerk: We're near many Houston landmarks!
Man: Like, maybe, um, a flower store?

Needless to say, this is where I'm staying. It'll be like "Hills Like White Elephants" only with Roy Oswalt jerseys.


(See, doesn't that wildly inappropriate conversation make up for yesterday's Royals preview? I certainly hope so because now I feel bad).