Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris. It has been an interesting past week for me for many reasons.

I've been really busy and I haven't been able to get to all the stories I want to get to but most of them I have now in a very organized fashion

I've spent a few hours this morning just looking over some of the things I've screen-shotted that That's how I often do things now. I just

screenshot it on my phone and whether it's a conversation or a news story I see and

then something that in my mind I think well that's something that is important that people should

know about that's something we can talk about for whatever reason and and then I go

back and I sometimes weed them out, sometimes I do more research on certain things just to see if I'm on the right track.

Sometimes I look at them and I wonder why did I, why did I screenshot that? That makes no sense. But I have a number of things

enough for at least three episodes probably from just the past two weeks and I

haven't been able to talk about all of them just because I've been

busy working on my house. Many of you know if you listen to the podcast regularly I

have a lot of renovation and repair work that needs to be done. I basically have a

fixer-upper and been doing and

I've been doing some of that and it's like I spent like a day and a half well now I spent about a full day

We'll put it that way putting up like four lights. Now it should take under half an hour to put up a

light. Even with some of these lights it should have taken even less than that, except for the fact

that I live in an old house and the insulation and the

wiring and it's so it's not only is it confusing but it's like from like at

least 50 years ago some of this stuff and I'm working with it trying

to figure out let's just say I saw some sparks and I'm glad that they're

installed now.

I finally figured it all out, but thank goodness that there's videos out there on old houses and how to approach some of those things.

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