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Today is Thursday, July the 17th.

And Cecil, we are back, my friend.

We are back from a little vacation. We're continuing

output, but... They call that holiday in Britain or whatever. We had a holiday. An American holiday,

which is like a long weekend for the EU. American holiday is like a short foot race.

Like that's how long an American holiday is. I remember when Haley and I were on a vacation, this was back in like 2017 or 18, we're on vacation, and we were in Belize, and it was just the two of us, and then like, we're in this like waterfall, this beautiful natural space. And then this German couple shows up, right? And so there's no one else there, So you're going to chit chat with them a little bit. And so they come over and of course they speak perfect English because everybody's bilingual across the world but us. And they come over and chit chat and they're like, yeah, you know, we're just here for like a little short vacation. You know, we're just, we're only here for two weeks. And I was like,

I've only taken one vacation in my life that was longer than a week at a time. Like,

like, I only get two, three weeks of vacation for the whole year. And these Germans were like,

yeah, this is just a short two week trip. And I was like, fuck you. I overheard a conversation

while Sarah and I were on vacation.

This couple was talking to an Australian couple. And the Australian couple, the guy was still,

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