I sound a little bit bad this week because I'm a little bit sick because everyone's a little bit sick because oh my god everyone is sick.

Like, yeah, this might be, you know anecdotally speaking, the most people I've ever heard of being sick at the same time, everyone is sick right now.

Every when it's not all, you know, most of it's not COVID fortunately. A lot of it is just like, you know, mild colds here and there, occasional flus here and there, but just everyone is sick.

Yeah, Michaela has been fighting a call off. She's been COVID tested, you know, once or twice and it doesn't seem to be that she woke up today complaining of an earache and so fast forward three hours.

She's getting treated for an ear infection. You know, the our kids were sick over Thanksgiving again, not COVID as far as tests and as far as we know.

Yeah, I agree with you that it seems like everyone is making up for lost time unlike general illnesses.

Yeah, it's not like you said, it's not necessarily COVID although it's certainly plenty of that going around.

But just even general illnesses, there seems to be plenty of it at the moment.

Yeah, and the good news is that it seems like the most common thing I hear about is people who just have like mild cold symptoms for a week or two at the most, which is really annoying.

In fact, I'm currently on I think my second one of those for the season. It's annoying, but you know, it could be a lot worse. It has been a lot worse.

So, you know, it's good that it's all mild. So we everyone just is just kind of like mildly annoyed with sickness for this whole winter, which is, you know, again, could be worse, but that doesn't make it any less mildly annoying.

Yeah.

What are you going to do? By the way, I don't think it made it into the release recording. Maybe it did, but as we were hanging up.

So not as the live I don't think it was when the live broadcast was ending, but as the three of us were hanging up on Zoom.

Marco sniped me and wished John a happy birthday in advance, and I it had completely slipped my mind last recording, but I will now take credit for this one and say happy birthday, John.

I hope your birthday was wonderful and your carrot cake was delicious.

Thank you. We're still working on the carrot cake. Still some left.

Oh, I thought you meant this and it hadn't arrived yet. I was like, what are you talking about? I thought Tina and Kate made that for every year. I miss.

Those are the questions. Should we make the full size cake? Yeah, make the full size cake. Would you ever not make the full size cake?

I mean, for just four people, it's a lot of cake, but I think I think we can rub to the task.

I mean, carrot cake. So this is one of those things, you know, I hate to admit that you're right.

Carrot cake is awesome. Like I love carrot cake. I'm going to your pizza place tomorrow. Like it sucks when you're right this much, but the carrot cake is relatively new birthday thing.

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