I guess it's a tradition. I don't know how many years now we've been doing the year-end review together.

Forever. Apple. It's just been forever. Forever. Forever.

It follows. Everything feels like forever now, right? It's like we're at the end of COVID season two.

Yeah, 2020, junior or the 2020 resurrected. I forget what it went with.

There's a very strong sense of deja vu with everything going to hell.

Yeah.

And I'm just hoping that CSS's big announcement isn't the Omega variant.

If they decide not to unveil that, I'll be very happy this year.

It's just speaking with Deeter Bone and I was like, you guys aren't going, are you?

And he's like, oh, no, we canceled first like they were like, but like they didn't announce it early

because they wanted to tell all their partners and, and, but, you know, they saw this coming a while ago.

But it is kind of sad because I feel like six months ago,

CES was looking like, hey, this, you know, this all might work out.

I don't blame them for trying. I wouldn't want to be the one to pull the trigger and tell everybody to cancel.

But boy, they should, I, it feels like they should cancel.

I mean, if you just want to sit in your room at Arya and eat steak for a week, you can get the best deal.

Yeah. World right.

I do. I, I, it's just, you know, and I am not a, a particularly COVID phobic person at this point,

fully vaxed, my family vaxed, everybody boosted.

But you don't have to be particularly worried or fearful of it to put your finger in the air,

see which way the wind is blowing and say, hey, maybe we should not have a major conference with people from all over the world.

Yeah, it's not just that. I mean, like we, we did not get our booster shot shit together at all.

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