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My self-timer beeped at me. Oh, writing some numbers down. Yeah. Thank you for that. It was an excellent report, I must say. And also, you know, I wouldn't mind being a boat cop, a water cop. I mean, I came close when I worked on Isle Royale National Park. I had my own boat. I was issued a boat for my purposes, but I was not a ranger. And we had law enforcement rangers. Most of the rangers were interpretive rangers, like not law enforcement. And I wasn't even any kind of ranger. I was literally a technician. I was a scientific photographer. And I worked for the naturalist, I worked for the historians, I worked for the scientists. I had my own darkroom. And I had my own boat, the Black Duck. It was a 17 foot Lund hull with a midship helm with a 48 horsepower Evanrood twin on the back. And the entire, technically an archipelago, but mostly Isle Royale, one big island with a few little islands mixed in. The entire Isle Royale archipelago was my territory, that boat. If I had to go on the other side of the island one time, I got to use a different, larger, it wasn't one of the ranger, it was one of the boats. Because Isle Royale is a boat park. So that's when you tell me about your dad who was a boat cop. What a job. And, very clever, looking for glass bottles, but using a metal detector to locate associated debris around which bottles could be found.