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KJ5, I'll see you returning. Thank you K2KPKG. Yeah, well, I like you never really took super big care of my teeth. Really wish I would have looking back. I don't have dentures or anything yet, but it has been talked about. Dennis Story, the biggest... I got two really. Let's start off with my front teeth. So my front teeth used to overlap a little bit. When I went to the Army, I had rhythm teeth. Well, they took care of those suckers for you in the military. While I was in there getting my rhythm teeth extracted, the dentist, he's an old guy. He was a full-bladed colonel. He was telling me, no, that overlap, if you want, while I'm in there, I can shave it down and make it look better. I said, sure, whatever. I was a young kid. Looked great for a long time. He was really cool. I'll never forget. Percocet. He gave me a prescription for Percocet for my rhythm teeth extraction. And he told me, you can take two of those I needed for pain. Or you can take one of those and drink some beer. No joke. That was exactly what he told me. And I wasn't the only soldier that he told that to. I had found out later. So, yeah, that worked out really well until the fact that he shaved it so thin that it started chipping. And so, yeah, that's one of my stories. And then the other one's a little more life-threatening. Maybe it's a warning to everybody who's never had an abscess. The night before I deployed to Iraq, well, actually to Kuwait. We went to Kuwait before we went to Iraq. It was February 13, 2003. I can tell you exactly the date. My wife and I were having our last dinner. She made hamburgers and french fries. And we were chowing down on hamburgers and french fries, and I hit a bone. Not my totally back molar, but the one next to it. And it cracked it bad. It hurt. And, again, not enough to stop me from being deployed or anything. And I never said anything about it and continued on. Oh, gosh, four or five months into Iraq, there we are on a patrol, doing all those things. And by this time, that world confusion had turned into an abscess. And that abscess has creeped up into the right side of my face. And lo and behold, on a very, very hot mission that we were on, I passed out. And it was because of the abscess. I woke up two days later at the field hospital with my tooth extracted, and the doctor is yelling. You know, not really yelling at me, but getting on to me for not saying anything about it. So, yeah, don't let those abscess wait. Anyhow, KJ5ILQ, back to you.