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Not sure how much that helped. I tried it at home. My wife didn't seem to think that it did too much. I've tried those mouth guard things where you put the thing in your mouth and it's supposed to hold your lower jaw forward to help with your airways. Those are a pain in the butt. They tend to hurt my teeth and you have to clean them. Out here on the road it doesn't really work out all that great. The one thing that I did start, that I've used and I continue to use, is these nose ventilators. They look like little cones. They're two cones that hook together with a little bit of rubberized plastic. You just slide them into your nose and they're supposed to hold your nose open while you sleep. This allows you to breathe through your nose rather than breathing through your mouth. Those help out a lot because before I started using them I would wake up a lot with dry mouths because I'd be breathing through my mouth rather than breathing through my nose. Ever since I started using those, I think the quality of my sleep has improved. I like them. They're the ones that I've stuck with. They're easy to use, easy to clean, and I think they've done the most help. That's what I use to help me sleep because I'm trying to stay away from the whole sleep apnea machine. If you don't keep those clean, those can get bacteria buildup in the hose. Those can be seriously hazardous to your health if you don't keep up on it. That's the one thing I have a problem with being a truck driver is being able to keep things relatively clean. I don't have a sink and everything else that you might need in a truck. You have to use a truck stop and I think that would be an issue. There you go. That was the last one. Back to VA3KKY from N9OVU. N9OVU. I call them, my little nickname for it is their swanky porta potties. But they're better than that, right? Because you know how a porta potty stinks and they're nasty. This has air conditioning and heating and flushable toilets. It's outside. When they illustrated our place, they said that they would probably use the rink area outside where they have set up the portable classes. So the kids are in this big rink and inside the rink, that's where they'll have a couple of those trailer looking things where they can go to the washroom. Because right now what they have to do is walk about almost 10 minutes into the school building. I have to leave the rink and walk into the school, use the washroom and then come back. And then who knows, if it was me I would never come back. No, I'm joking. But yeah, long smoke break. But anyways, so they have these, I don't know what the hell they are. I thought about your situation where it would be fun to maybe install one of those in the truck or something around it. But I guess you wouldn't do that. But it would just be kind of fun. And yeah, I sort of, it's funny to at least be of weight. I'll show you. Like okay, my dad is of weight I think. He's about maybe an inch taller than me, maybe 5'5". And he's like somewhere peaking like 150, 160 pounds. None of his clothes fit me. They're too tight. They're a little bit lumpy the way I want them to, right? Like I like having baggy trousers and stuff. But they're just absolutely super tight. So they're not comfortable at all. And then I wonder, he has used and borrowed and taken my clothes. And he hasn't said anything about it. So I guess it works for him. But yeah, no. I started to pretty much put on the, like get into my 200s when I started to live on my own and I started to get work. And I started to eat regularly because prior to that I wasn't even eating like routinely. Because I know how to slip into that. Like you guys saw when I told you about it, like when my dad was laid up for the last few months. The way I planned meals is nothing like anyone else does. So once I got more consistent, then I started putting on the pounds. If you leave it up to me, I have one meal a day and then snacks to kind of carry out the rest of the way. And that's sort of what I did on those times too when no one was really around. Because when you're by yourself, or at least when I'm by myself, I figure there's no one to impress. You know, because cooking and making food is a labor of love. So when you have no one to impress, it's like you can just do anything, right? Like here, I'll have some coffee food and I'll be fine. Maybe I'll have a little more of it later or something. And then, maybe I'll smarten up just before bed and have something big. So that's kind of how I roll when I'm by myself. And hey, I'm alive. I don't remember losing weight when I did that on those few months. And I wasn't starving myself, but I figured it's dumb to have three meals. It's like you don't need three meals. And so I get into that whole thinking, right? Because three meals is influenced by others who live with me. Otherwise, if you're by yourself, you could just improvise. And it's not bad at all. Hey, sometimes you know what's a lot of fun that I like to do when no one's around? I like to have little 3 a.m., 4 a.m. excursions. Like, oh, it's 4 a.m., I'm hungry. You know, I'll see if something's open and get a sub or something. I don't do that shit when I have other people around me. Because, well, they're routine. They stick to routine. All right, well, let's stick to routine right now and see if we can get a routine of new check-ins. Yeah, I'm at the bottom of the list and more room for names. VA3KKY listening for you.