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Yeah, thanks Kevin. Yeah, you know, Greg's taken off on us. He said there's the first one in a year. So, I think it must be a little more exciting, I know, when we went up to Wisconsin. It was a good trip. We needed to be away from the house for sure. I even got some decent sleep up there too. Yeah, the bed was absolutely fabulous. That's something that, you know, we were talking about sleep problems this time of year. You know, I remember when I was a kid, I could sleep 12 hours. Of course, probably every other kid could sleep 12 hours too, right? And as I get older, my sleep cycle gets less and less and less. Now, I get down to about six hours a night. I was fine with that. I'm taking off half of their medications and some of them have steroids and stuff like that. Now, I'm down to about four to five hours, you know. Looking back, sometimes that's kind of crazy. It's almost 8 o'clock at night. I wake up at 9. I got to get back to sleep. I got a lot to do. But, yeah, that was the CPAP or bifat machine that I used. I'd much rather have the CPAP than the bifat. I was recommended for the nezma. And trying to find out if that really wasn't true, if you didn't do the pifat or the pifat asthma, it doesn't really be a damn thing. But it has a different effect on you. It doesn't only push air in but it takes air out of your lungs at the same time. And it's been a rough getting used to. I've had it for almost a year now and I'm still not used to it. But, you know, you got to do this as a jump driver if you diagnose a CPAP. Let's do segric. You have to use a room tapping machine when you have to use it so many hours a day. You can only use it so many times a week, which I think is two. You got to get more than four hours each night. And that started to become a struggle, you know. I had one night this week where I got three hours and 49 minutes on the machine. And that was all I slept. But I laid down again and I put the CPAP on, not to sleep, but just to get that extra few minutes so I'd be leaving. And, no, that's kind of stupid. You know, you sleep and you sleep and that's the best you get. And you know, you have that three hours and 49 minutes. So I got the machine on. So I was driving down the road the other day in a Walmart trunk past me and I looked and in the cab. This guy had his CPAP machine on during the day to try to get his hours. So he drove down the road and got the mask on and the CPAPs running back around. And he can't tell if you're asleep or awake. It just is there and he gives you how much time to sleep. So, you know, there's a lot of people out there that have problems with the CPAP machine too. Now before I got the bike out, I just had the CPAP. I was sleeping really, really good. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. I might go back to my doctor and try to go back to my CPAP machine. And they're expensive. The last machine I had cost $2,000. The machine ran $6,000. I could use that machine again. I guess I could just control it. It wouldn't make anybody realize it. It still shows everything it needs to show to give it to the DOT and the U.S.A. So yeah, sleep has really become a pain in the ass for me in the last year. Hey, I'm back in that control. KV0MAI. Yeah, hey, no problem. A couple of comments I wanted to make. Well, with at least the sleep paralysis, there are certain times that I get it, so I try hard to avoid it. I hate it. It's annoying. It's stupid. My brother likes it. He used to call it the crazy buzz, the free high, because he says with the visuals you get on it, it's similar to what you get when you're on SID. I'll never know, so I'm taking his word for it. Him and I used to drop tons of SID, and he used to always say to me, but it's a visual drug, Kevin. What could you possibly get out of it? I never had an answer. I don't have an answer. I feel like I'm poisoned. I asked him the same thing. He said, yeah, well, it's an intoxication of sorts. So he said that sleep paralysis had that aspect to it, plus hallucinations, plus you think things are happening or you're not. You think you're awake and you're not. And then there's also the really silly stuff, like you're flying around and flying over buildings and airplanes and all that kind of mess, or you're teleporting. So there's all that nonsense. And so if he liked it, he almost embraced it, I would try to avoid it. As soon as I feel it coming on, I would get up and maybe just have a walk for a minute. It shakes it off. You also get it when you've already slept earlier, because your body needs to kind of revamp and reboot, and it uses the sleep paralysis to do that. And then it's the same thing if you feel it crawling onto you, the creeping crawling, because you'll get the rainbows and the flashes that I don't get. You get them. I don't. Like you'll get the certain color flashes that let you know they're coming, right, that you're falling asleep. So usually I'll get the pinches, and so will you. Well, when I start feeling the pinches, I get up, maybe take a walk, and then lay back or sit back down again, or... If you're sitting, maybe try not to sit that way, because you're falling asleep, right? If you're in school, keep doing that. So yeah, that's how I kind of do that. And well, you know, I've been knowing about Russ's being unreliable. I try to cover up for him so he doesn't get in trouble. It's one of the reasons I kind of started with this part of it, right? Other than that I want to be here, you can tell I want to be here. I don't just say two or three words, like I talk to you, but there were times I wanted to kind of save his ass from being in trouble, even though, you know, he's a grown-ass man, he's got to take what he takes. But I just sort of have a tender heart, especially for the, let's just say, underdog, or oddies alike. Different categories, I know, and so that's just always me. It's the same when I was in school, I try to stop people from getting in shit. Okay, so I'm going to individualize this here because we've been keeping him waiting. So Steve, if you're there, over to you Steve, N0BF if you're still there.