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It was a while posse. I had all my radio gals over. So in fact, including Madeline and Amy Ann came over. So I was happy about that. In fact, I ran out of chairs. I had seating for five in a pinch with my step stool, with the step seat. But then when Amy Ann came over, I had officially run out of seating. I need to officially get another chair. The mountain is not out. It's the haze, the nature of the haze. You can't even tell. You'd never know there was a stratovolcano over there on the horizon. You know, 95 kilometers, 65, 69 miles away in that neighborhood. It is over the limb of the Earth. The only reason we can see it when we can is because it's sticking out of the troposphere to the bottom of the stratosphere. Stratovolcano. So Mount Fiji is very dramatic from space because you can see. It's like there's a photograph I've seen of Mount Fiji where you can see, almost like the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. The snow colored peak of Mount Fiji sticks right smack out of the dense, hazy looking air. It sticks right out into the clear, space-like air. In fact, that's where the snow line is. Anyway, just amazing. So dramatic that a feature on the Earth can be that big. Yet, if you shrink the Earth to the size of a cue ball, it would be smoother than the smoothest cue ball that exists. It gives you a sense of scale. So, yes, you know, this started on Friday.