La La La, La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. La La La, la, friends, welcome to the show.

Two more shows before, two or three more shows before the end of the year.

Certainly two more shows before Christmas.

We're getting tight here on everything.

And indeed, my wife and I are now talking about how we are going to allot our finances at the end of the year,

given that there are a number of groups that we've supported over the year.

But sometimes we pick up a few extra at the end of the year

to kind of balance our own account if we're a little shy of what we wanted to give for that year.

We're not tithers. We don't do the 10% thing. We don't think that's obligatory, but we want to be

cheerful givers. And so this is why we're in that stage of the calendar to look over that,

and there are people we don't support during the year that we decide we want to help them,

in particular this time, and so a lot funds for them.

Now, my philosophy at Stand-A- and we are a 501C3,

which means we survive principally on the gifts that other people give us. When I say principally,

I should say virtually completely. Yes, we do sell product, and we also have expenses

associated with the product, overhead, and cost of goods and stuff like that.

So it's mostly a push.

We're not making money to run the organization based on the product we sell.

We're making money to sell more product is what it amounts to.

But the lifeload of standard reasons are those who are kind enough to give us, give financially,

often through the year, like our strategic partners, but certainly at the end of the year,

a lot of people are thinking just like we, my wife and I are thinking now.

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