Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How are you? Hey, happy, happy New Year. Yeah, happy New Year to you.

Do you observe? Oh, you know, I think I've gone on record before saying that New Year's is the worst holiday to make any kind of plan or have any expectations.

People still do that, huh?

Yeah.

So they don't understand the shape of the year.

They have not discovered the shape of their year.

No, that's right.

That's right.

And New Year's for me is like keep your head down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just stay out of the line of fire. But, and yet you've been very social lately, it seems. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're getting out there. Yeah. I'm trying. I'm trying to get out there.

And, and, um, but the little one had a New Year's Eve party that was hosted by the little one.

Well, it was a little complicated.

She said, I'm going to have a party at your house, dad.

And then I said, well, great.

We're going to need to get the house ready for the party.

And then she said, I'm the only person who ever thinks things like that.

Well, apparently not, because I also thought it.

And then she said, I think I'm going to have it at moms.

Ooh, wow. And wait, wait, is this in the same conversation? and uh and then she said i think i'm going to have it at moms oh wow and

wait wait is this in the same conversation no it was it was spaced out over over the

space of a week and she spent a week telling her friends it was going to be at my house and

i was thinking oh well i got all this you know i, you got all these half sandwiches you haven't eaten.

Yeah.

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