Hello.

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Pretty good.

Well, I just did the thing that I do, which is I know I have a thing to do.

And I stayed in bed until absolutely the last minute.

And then I got out of bed and I came in here and I sat down.

It's also good because it makes it harder for people to track your movements.

That's true. That's true.

That's true.

Unless you're tracking my movements by looking in my bedroom window.

Even still, I'm guessing you probably throw away the covers and just jolt it out of bed.

That's right.

That's right.

And I ran past the thermostat on my way and I went and I turned up the thermostat so that by the end of

this podcast it would be warm in my house. John, you're a life hacker. There's no question about it.

Live hacks. You've hacked your sleep. You've hacked your waking. You've hacked your stat,

as we say. What I haven't hacked is preserving batteries in the little blues driver that's sitting on the floor that I just noticed has been plugged in all night.

Is that the heavy guy with the harmonicas?

That battery's dead.

Oh, blues driver, yeah.

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