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Wow, I can run but I can't hide, huh? I didn't even check in and you called on me, how nice. Well, good morning to you, Gail, and good morning to everyone else on the worldwide friendship net for a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Thursday morning. It must be, excuse me, about 79, 80 degrees going up to mid 80s, but it's wall to wall sunshine and it's a glorious day. I'll tell you why it's so glorious in a minute. First off, I wanted to mention that in your prelude, you mentioned Springdale, Ohio. I think you might have meant Springfield, Ohio, but that's what I usually do. I usually give kudos to our King and our leader at the beginning of my check-ins. But, yeah, I wanted to say, oh yeah, I think there's, I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I read a story this morning where Robert Redford had passed away at 89 yesterday. I'm not sure if that's true, you never know what to believe, right? You read it, but it could be true and maybe not. But anyway, yeah, cool start to the day. I wanted to mention that I am not absolutely sure whether I've got the net control duty tomorrow or if it's KT7JOE since we've been kind of out of our normal schedule. But yeah, I've been absent for the last four or five days because, you know, when you're in such severe pain, it's really hard to be social. I hate to put it that way, but really it's amazing how your mind can be affected by your health and vice versa. But I did get some good news when I was checking or when I was listening to the first couple of check-ins. My phone rang and it was the South Carolina pain and, what was it, pain and, what is it, pain and management or something like that. Anyway, yeah, I got a call from the doctor this morning saying they'll get me in at three o'clock on Thursday and give me a cortisone shot. I'm looking forward to that because the reason why I was so not feeling sociable is that the other day, last week, I went to the doctor, pain and pain management, and he looked at my MRI and said, yeah, I think you need another surgery. When my L3, L2, 3 and 4 were fused with rods and screws, and all of a sudden my new MRI says that it's L2 that's out of whack and the nerves are bulging. It's just incredible, but you know what, I'm going to stay positive, I'm going to keep my faith, and I'm going to...