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Well sorry about sound there I already realized first thing I did wrong there's

probably going to be a lot of them today let me just tell you ahead of time my

family and some friends have asked how you doing today and optimistically I'm

at about four out of ten I'd say I'm at about 40% today when the best you

can do is I've sipped a little ginger ale I've had four saltine crackers and a

lot of electrolytes that's gives you an idea of where we are food poisoning

ugly stuff and the older you get the longer it takes you to get over it so I'm

not looking for sympathy from my critics and everything else just letting you

know and I just got off the phone a few minutes ago with the kind pastor up in

Ely, Minnesota I talked with the folks in spearfish I talked with Clyde

Bellman the great Milo Hudson Bueller who I was going to be meeting with on the

way what we've had to do is we've we've had to cut out the middle portion of

this trip I was going to be pushing it as it was the days were too long but

there's no way I could get up there and back in time between events here in

Colorado and I want to try to do it I want to try to go north and I will try to

in the future obviously it's better to go to places like Ely, Minnesota in July

than it is in December January February we're in there so we will try to work

things out to be able to go up there you know minimally next year we might be

able to work something out to do some of the topics we're gonna do from the

unit here I mean honestly in fact I didn't talk to Rich about it but it's

easier for me to do programs presentations webcasts from here than it is from

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