Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone.

In which nothing much happens.

You feel good, and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

With audio engineering by Bob Wittersheheim.

We've had a little change to the setup of the show, and I just want to alert you.

In order to keep this show possible, we've had to move our ads a few minutes into the actual episode. I know, I know. I know. I'm not a fan either.

But if my options are do this or stop doing the show, well you can bet I'm going to do this.

And I think I've designed it in a way that feels pretty organic.

So I'll walk you through the opening as usual and tell you how to use the show.

And then we'll skip to the show description,

that little teaser that tells you about

our story tonight.

Then we'll have our ad break and all ads should be read by me in my sleepy voice.

In the first few weeks here, there may be a few bugs in that system,

but I promise we're working it out.

Then we'll come back. I'll tuck you in and we'll take our deep breaths. Okay, on with the show. Let me tell you a bit about how to use this podcast.

It's designed to help you quiet down your mind and ease it to sleep.

And it does that by giving your mind a place to rest that isn't the tangle of thoughts you might have been caught in all day.

The story is simple and not much happens in it, and that is sort of the idea.

Just follow along with my voice and the soft details of the story.

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