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VA3, VW X4 ID, and I'm just trying to answer for memory. So Calgary did have a hailstorm in 2024. I think that one was actually in August, but didn't go through the downtown core of the city. I believe it went to the north of the city. That one, that one had 130,000 insurance claims on that storm, and that one was one of sort of the big hailstorms that the insurance industry in Canada was using as a benchmark to say, hey look, this is becoming a problem, right? The claims are going up in particular as it relates to hail. So anyway, that's just an interesting point. So the big hailstorm, the flood in Montreal, so Calgary in Montreal, those were the two things that I missed while I was away as far as Canada goes. And something else that's interesting over here that I wanna share with you guys, Australia's pink lakes. I know we have a lot of people from Australia that are, that take part in the net here. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. All star node six two two. 78 three, WWX Freddie. So Australia has a number of pink lakes, and these lakes are essentially the remnants of ancient rivers that dried up about 15 million years ago when they left behind these salty basins. So the lakes are cut off from other bodies of water, and the lakes are actually, in some cases, 10 times saltier than the ocean, and this creates a perfect habitat for salt-loving microbes like, I'm gonna try and pronounce this Italy la salina algae. Hope I didn't butcher that kid and correct me. And salini bactere ruber bacteria. And these are microbes that produce beta carotones, and these are the same pigments that give carrots and flamingos their color, turning the lakes, these very, very vibrant shades of pink, like a Barbie color of pink. Not a dull pink, a very vibrant pink. And climate change and human activity are, they suspect now threatening some of these ecosystems, although these ecosystems are always naturally in flux as well. Lake Hollier, it lost its pink hue earlier due to extreme rainfall, and of course what happens is you have fresh water, which is rainfall, that dilutes the salinity in the lake, and as a result of that, the particular microbes that produce the pigments, they essentially drop in number, right? They die off and other microbes sort of take over. But these new cycle and scientists believe that the lake is gonna recover and become pink again in about 10 years. And there's another one, Pink Lake, and that's near Esperesence, and that one turned blue gray in the 2000s due to salt mining, and experts say it may not recover naturally without intervention. I guess they had some contamination. And it's interesting because these lakes aren't just beautiful, but they're also ecologically important. They support birds, brines, shrimp, and snails, and they give life to some, and they give insights into some of the extreme environments that life lives in. So I thought that was interesting, in particular, because flamingos are pink because of the shrimp that they eat, they're white normally, and they're born white, and as they eat shrimp and stuff, they turn pink, if you didn't know. But anyway, thank you, everybody who helped this group make a cigarette game. Thank you, thanks so much. And we wanna know what you can do for this different project. I mean, no matter what, some pokeball or whatever Rowling makes it, Slug Jamaica will help another group. I don't know if you can cover up my tv or in thisautions or something, but for all the way through we would love to see what wepeople make. And back or back I look into this city and figuring out how long it would have relationships with such big plants in this community, and to me, then, I don't wanna guess