Welcome back to another episode of the podcast, Rami Upton Ruminations.

My name is Scott and I'm the host.

Today's episode is called a Rami-Umpdom update. Thanks for coming back to listen to another episode.

Today I wanted to do a quick update on where I've been for the last couple of weeks.

I didn't intend to take this long of a break.

I knew that I had some vacations coming up and I had some business trips on the horizon

that would make recording difficult.

I actually did record a couple of episodes.

I did two interviews during that time, but I didn't get a chance to post either of them,

just because I've been so busy.

And then getting back to work after being gone for so long, things piled up and just had too

much of a backlog to actually dedicate enough time to do proper research into an episode.

One of the things that I have been thinking about,

and what I want to talk about today,

is how nice it was not to think about Mormonism for a few weeks.

For the last four weeks, I have been very busy with my personal life, with my professional life, and with some of my hobbies.

I didn't really have a lot of time to even create space in my mind for the LDS faith.

And it was so nice.

I completely separated myself.

Yeah, I bumped into it in my regular life with my family members that are believers and, you know,

nieces going on missions, that sort of thing.

So I did encounter it, but I, it didn't occupy my mind the same way it does while I'm trying to generate ideas for subject

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