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I get it. Addiction is a very common thing in just about any country. It's not surprising to know that there was more than one member of the family that had some form of addiction. It comes in all different ways from alcohol to hard drugs to medicines that you are supposed to take to hell you can be addicted to anything, even cigarettes. It's all there. It's a big problem in society for sure. I don't judge anybody that's addicted to this stuff. I just wish they would get help so they could maybe lead a better life. The way it happened with me was I was pretty much an alcoholic. First I started with marijuana which was kind of my gateway. When I joined the Navy I couldn't use that anymore. Then I went to alcohol and it got severe. The Navy took me to a Naval station in Philadelphia, a hospital and I went to four months of rehab. What convinced me that I had no control over it is a lot of the people there were, well hell they were lieutenants and commanders and captains and petty officers and corporals and the Marine Corps and all kinds of stuff. All of them had addictions. We had to go through a whole bunch of programs and AA meetings and so forth like that. And then even after I got out of the Navy I continued to go to AA meetings and I had a sponsor. I don't do that stuff anymore but I've been to sobriety free for pretty much a little over 40 years right now, well a little under 40 years actually. But I know I talk about oh yeah let's try marijuana again, this, that and the other but I know I don't want to, if I pick it up I have an addictive personality and I can easily wind up going down that path again and I just don't choose to do that anymore. I got too much on my plate and life is too complicated as it is. And with my wife, one more reset, she is the angel with a halo on her head when it comes to that kind of stuff. I've been trying to get her to take the hydrocodone because she's been in so much pain. I mean they cut her around the ear and the back of the ear and down of her neck and then they removed a mass that was fairly large away from nerve tissue and stuff like that. And she's doing it like a trooper but we gave her a full pill and that was making her sick. Now she's got a half pill and she's, one pill is supposed to be good for four hours. She's taking a half pill and she's like six, seven hours before she takes another pill. So she's an inspiration for me. I don't even use, I won't take pain pills after surgery either. Every time I've had them I just, no thank you, you know, whatever I had in the hospital and I take aspirin or Tylenol or something like that, that's about as far as I go. Just because of that fear that I'd get back on that path. Anyhow, KB0MAI.