I'm traveling to the Hill Country today, so posting will be light. Where it was left last night, it appeared the legislature was set to go home without deals on three non-budget items — 1) repealing the truckers' unearned $4 million tax break windfall (Senate Republicans simply won't take back the coming gift, that was supposed to be premised on a diesel tax increase); 2) changing foreclosure law to the benefit of out-of-state banks (a Republican-sponsored bailout that is being held up by the Republican support for the trucker windfall); and 3) a tightening of parole law against one category of sex offender (a bipartisan measure, reactive to a single recent case and best dealt with systemically in a regular session, but, though not particularly controversial now, also caught in the tax break logjam).