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Alright, alright, KJ5 ILQ returning. Thank you, Russell. It's starting to warm up here in Texas now. I mean, it's not sure if it's still in the 40s or 50s, but the sun's out. I'm actually outside with my dog, of course, where I'm usually at, in the morning because she likes to play with her ball. So, we play a little ball, get some energy, ran out of her. After we do that, we usually spend about 10 minutes on a training session. I really try to do about three training sessions a day with her. Ten minutes a soil piece, 10 to 15 minutes or so. And right now, we are still working on a lockdown return command. Her return command is come. In fact, she's going across the yard. Well, you can't see this, but, Rilla Jean, come! She drops whatever she does, and she comes right then and there. She sits down beside me. It's really, really cool. But we're still working on that because she's not 100%. I would say she's probably in the mid-80s, 90s maybe, on her return rate, which is really good. In fact, yesterday, come on, Rilla, come! Yesterday, she went up to a squirrel across the yard, and I was able to pull off of her, just yelling her name and saying, Down! When I yelled down, she dropped to the ground instantly and waited until I released her, which is what I want her to do. Mainly for her protection. You know, if she runs up to a ball in the yard, in the road, and a car comes running, I want to be able to yell, Down! And her drop to the ground and stop whatever she's doing. So, yeah, we're doing some intensive training with her lately. She's really responding to it well. We use, I don't know if anybody's interested in dog training, but I have nothing else to talk about today. We use a couple of different training methods with her. The first one is dog treats, just like everybody else. She has different kinds of dog treats. One's kibble, a regular dog food. The next level up is a, I don't know, it's like a chewy dog treat. They seem to like them, peanut butter flavored. But she has a high-value dog treats for whenever I'm trying to get her really to get a new concept, or if I really want to reinforce something. And she absolutely loves freeze-dried beef liver, pork liver, or chicken liver. Those three types of liver she absolutely adores. And she will do almost anything for those treats. She doesn't get those too often. Like I said, those are high-value. Believe it or not, most of the time when I'm training her, I'm just using her balls. She responds very well to her balls. I can remove the ball if she knows she's in trouble, or at least being punished for something if I take it away from her and tell her no. She almost always has that ball, either in her mouth or it's in my pocket. So, alright, there you go, there's three minutes of dog talking. I'll probably do the same thing next to her, unless something else pops in, or unless somebody else has something better to talk about. But, KJ5, she's an extra.