Hi Merlin. How's it going? Good. I mean, early. I mean, early. Yeah. Yeah. It is. I've been doing better with my sleep and I've had a productive

morning.

Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.

Listen to you, you sound so like, so productive.

Productive.

Mm, it doesn't take that much.

I've always said my family has a low threshold for celebration.

Yeah. You know, it doesn't take much to... I'm an eternal prospective optimist.

Yeah, we have a high threshold for celebration here at Shay Roderick really and it's not

necessary that it be that way I should let I should let a little bit more I should let I should let the balloons in I should let the balloons in I should let the streamers in.

You know they're at they're knocking at the door streamers are ringing the bell and I'm like mmm did we really earn this oh that

extends beyond you that goes to your immediate family did you really earn that think it goes, I mean I won't look at

somebody straight up and be like did you earn that but I do feel like party

inflation. You let your look of disappointment do the heavy lifting.

Yeah, I mean, you know, there are people around me in my orbit who believe that when it's

their birthday month, yeah. That is is that signifies something.

Sounds like you. You have talked about this and it sounds like you,

whether you were able to choose or not that that's on you. The birthday

month is the thing you do now. Yeah, it's close. Certainly a birthday week.

But no, I think it's the, I think the thing that you're talking about is like,

I definitely don't let myself celebrate small accomplishments or even big ones but I do have a tendency I think to I mean you know I give high fives I give high fives when things get straightened up and when you know when people do good things

I give high fives but I don't think that's enough I don't think it's enough

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