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So talk to us about COVID delayed your wedding for quite a bit, it sounds like.

Yeah.

And so we had a wedding scheduled to get married in Michigan.

And then all the restrictions started happening.

And we had invited about 200 people.

Oh, boy.

And then we seen on the news that they were restricting capacity to 100 people, then 50. And then we get a call from a wedding coordinator, about a month and a half out saying that we could only have 10 people. Yeah. And, of course, there was no way that that could happen. And so we decided to reschedule it for about a year out. And then we were good.

All COVID was done it over with. And then more restrictions came in about a year, like worst timing ever.

And then, of course, as soon as we decided to reschedule again, it all opened back up. But the final time, yeah, no lockdowns, no restrictions.

And we're finally able to get the actual ceremony.

Nice. Nice. You love to hear it. So talk to us about what is a cloud computing architect. I've never heard that job title before. So just tell our listeners real quick what that means. Yeah, so basically

what it is is I consult with different technology executives across different sectors of industry,

whether it be health care, government defense,

in some cases. And what this usually happens is instead of building a big building and buying

all these servers yourself, which is really expensive to do, instead you can use like Microsoft

or AWS Cloud and you can lease a lot of the hardware on a per second basis. so it ends up being a lot cheaper. Okay. And then, you know, during COVID, a lot of companies started to migrate to cloud because when you have to order hardware, it can take 13 weeks during COVID. I had some customers. There was a year out for hardware. And in the cloud, it only takes a few seconds to provision new hardware. So that's kind of the value proposition behind it.

Very good.

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