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All right, that sounds good with me. Good morning to the group, whoever's out there listening in right now. I hope everybody checks in. It's a good day to do it, at least around here in Missouri. It was raining like crazy yesterday, and today it looks like it's going to be sunny and fairly warm, like 75, 78 degrees. I got some chores planned today. I am not working today. Once again, they told me that there's not enough freight. Usually we get six or seven trailers in, and we only got one. There's not enough freight to justify even going out. And it's going to happen more and more often here right now for sure. We're slowing down. Usually we don't get to slow down until like December. But, well, you know, the tariffs and people are slowing down on the money and all that kind of thing. It's people are waiting. So construction is slowing down. So construction materials are slowing down. So we'll just have to wait and see what goes on. I am prepared. If I go down to a three-day work week, I would not mind that one bit. I'm getting lazy in my old age. I'll do a reset. And I don't believe in hard work anymore. So anyways, the chores for the day are going to be, I repaired a crack on my concrete porch by my front door. And I've been promising myself I was going to paint that sucker all summer long. And I didn't because it was just too warm. So I waited till now and it's going to be a cool day. So I'm going to get out there and wash off the porch, make sure the paint will stick and do that today. Press the hell out of my wife. And maybe I might do a dry pour on, I got some concrete problems in the back too on the driveway, on the large crack. And I want to get that sealed before winter gets here, you know, because all that water gets down in there and the freezing and the melting, it contracts and expands and it can make the crack even bigger. So I need to get that taken care of today, hopefully. The dry pour is pretty cool. I hate mixing up concrete. So what you do is you take regular concrete and you pour it down the crack. That's a wide-nail crack. It's about two inches. And you fill it up three-quarters of the way, dry concrete. And then you take mortar and put it on top. And the reason why you do that is concrete has a lot of rock in it and it's going to have a really rough finish. But if you take the concrete and fill it up about three-quarters of the way and then put that mortar across the top, and then you start wetting it just a little bit at a time, every hour, about five times, about five hours. And it comes out of a nice mix. And it's all the way across and it's very smooth on the top. There's no rock on the top. It doesn't rise. So yeah, I'm going to try that. I've never done it before. I watched a lot of videos on it. So I'm going to give it a try and see what happens. So I might not get that done today, but most definitely I got to get the porch done today. Oh, and then I got to fix... Hang on. My wife developed a leak in her car. A windshield washer leak. And Volkswagens are notorious for being a real pain in the butt to work on. And I couldn't determine if the leak was coming from the tank itself or the little pump that has a seal on it. But you got to rip the whole front of the car off. You got to put the bumper and the whole thing. Everything has to come off. There's like a couple hundred tabs and bolts and this, that, and the other. And I'm just not up to that. So I called one place. I called Volkswagen themselves. And they said, oh, we can replace that tank and that pump for $800, $850. Oh, no. That sounds awfully expensive. So I was going to try out the pump first and see if that's it. And then if not, then I'd do the other. Well, then that's double the labor, right? So I called a local guy in town that has a really good reputation. I said, how much to do this? He says, well, we could do this one for $400 or we could do the other for $250. He says, but you might as well just combine them together, replace the tank, replace the pump. You know it's all fixed plus your wife's car is 12 years old. Only has 45,000 miles on it, but it's 12 years old. And he says, I could do the whole thing for $450. Sold. So today I got to call him up and see if he's got the parts. And if he does, I turn the car in tomorrow. And then my wife will have windshield wiper use again for the winter. Anyway, I think I took up enough time this round. So back to neck control, KB0MAI. Take it away, Russ.