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Thanks for wrapping on the phone during your week off.

Oh, happy to.

How's your week going?

I'm in full puttering mode.

I had a, I had a big list of things to do. I don't know why I put off tight. I had a couple of cabinet doors needed tightening in the kitchen that I put off for months. I thought it was a

big job. Turns out I just had to turn a couple screws a little bit. The whole thing took not even a minute.

I was embarrassed for having left it for so long. And then I have replaced a couple of, I'm a little

confused about the difference between a baluster and a spindle, but they're the wooden up and downy

things on staircase under the railing and the staircase. I replaced a couple of those. So, you know, it's a big week. And I've been accumulating property pretty aggressively in the monopoly game. They're running at McDonald's. So we've got, it's too much to talk about. I didn't know they were still doing that. You know what? I just peeled one off as we're speaking here from the large coffee and it says, you won food. Now, I have to scan it to see exactly what we're talking about. I don't want to say more. It's going to start to sound like an advertisement. But there's just, there's a lot of excitement over this quarter. We're going to play a conversation at just a moment about chemical stocks.

I have almost

nothing to say about the trading week so far. I noticed that gold took a beating for a day.

It had been up 65% year to date. It had its biggest single day decline since 2020.

That sounds more dramatic than it really was.

It was about a 6% drop.

And I've read a lot of research reports on what happens next.

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