Scroll down and read the earlier entries first.

Here's a shot of the sign outside BB King's when we were leaving. Each letter would light up individually, and I learned that I had to wait for it all to be lit before taking the picture, or you wouldn't see a thing, lol. The live band was very good. We stayed for one set, had some chicken fingers, had someone take our picture, I had a shot so I could keep the shotglass, and we made our way back to the car. Getting out of the city was the hard part, lol. The streets are all one way, and with many of them blocked off, you really have to know where you're going to get back to the highways, lol. Eventually we did, and arrived back at Cathy's apartment safe and sound. We both crashed right away, because Cathy was getting up about 6AM to go into work for a couple hours to get charts done, coming back to pick me up to go to church. A full and fun day!

Scroll down and read the earlier entry first, lol.

Here's a shot of Beale Street before it got dark. They barricade it off so no cars can drive down it, so people walk basically wherever they want, lol. Lots of stores and restaurants, but mostly clubs to hear live music. There was a group of gymnasts right outside BB Kings, who had a large group of onlookers cirlcing them. As we walked up Beale Street, there was a four-man group on the sidewalk playing, and just as we stopped to listen, they started up with Sweet Home Chicago. Of COURSE I had to tip them and tell them I was from Chicago, lol.

The continuing adventures of Denise...

Saturday morning dawned early for both myself and Cathy. She had a hair appointment, and I learned that I was in for a day at a spa. Cathy felt bad about abandoning me for her weekly hair appointment, so she wanted me to be treated and pampered Saturday morning.

She dropped me off at the spa for a full-body massage, a vichy shower, a facial and a manicure. For those not familiar with a vichy shower, click the link for a picture. You lay on a bed with a pad, they rub a sea-salt and oil mixture all over your body then rinse you off. A true vichy shower has the top thing with the shower heads spray the water all over you. But since I can't lay on my stomach, she used the hand sprayer to rinse me off. Your skin feels so soft and smooth when you're done. And after the full body massage, I was RE-LAXED!

Then it was time for the facial. All sorts of stuff massaged into my face, wiped off, a hot towel over my eyes, a hot steam to clean out my nasal passages, I think I could have fallen asleep in there given a few more minutes, lol.

I then got dressed, went downstairs and had my manicure done. I asked the girl to suprise me, I didn't want to pick the same old neutral color I would always look for. What did she pick? A very very pale pink, very neutral color, lmao. I think she hadn't been doing it long. I had some really nice nails and she trimmed them all down so they didn't even reach my finger tips. And I don't like my nails squared off the way she did it. But oh well, they'll grow back, lol.

About the time I was finishing the manicure, Cathy showed up with her hair done for the week, and we went to eat some RIBS! We went to a place called Corky's for some dry rub bbq ribs. OMG were they GOOD!!! I've never had the dry rub before, and it was so tasty, and you don't have as much as a mess like with the wet ribs. You still have messy fingers, just not so bad. We each got a 1/2 slab, with beans and cole slaw, and neither one of us could finish it all.

Afterwards, we went to a local art museum, where we saw some very interesting art pieces that really grabbed our attention. Before going downtown for the night, we went back to Cathy's to change into long pants and rest for a bit. I napped on the couch for maybe an hour, changed into slacks, and we headed to Beale Street for some blues!

I knew the drive to Memphis would be boring. The only thing to see for most of the drive, whether in Illinois, Missouri, or Tennessee, is farms, farms, and more farms. I took this picture from a rest stop on the way home, but the view is the same heading south as it is heading north.

I left Friday morning about 10:30am. I wanted to leave earlier, but just couldn't get out of bed and get everything done in time. I wasn't worried too badly, even if the drive took nine hours, I'd still be there about 7:30pm. Early enough to still eat dinner when I arrived (and have it not be dark yet), late enough that I knew Cathy would be home from work. The drive did in fact take about nine hours. I arrived about 7:30pm. I was just entering her town, and was thinking to myself that I should dig out her number and let her know I was almost there, when my cell phone rang.

It was Cathy, asking where I was, lol. I was trying to tell her where I was at, and suddenly I saw the sign for her apartment complex. I made a quick right turn and said...I'm here! It's gated, with a pass card/code, she tried to explain to me how to do it, but it didn't work when we tried. So I sat and waited for her to drive over to the gate to let me in. She showed me around her apartment. It's a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment on the third floor. They are brand new, all the walls are painted a light brown, very neutral color. Not something that I might want on every wall, but it's not my apartment, lol. We went to a restaurant close by for some catfish and salad. Gotta have catfish when you go down south!

We went back to her apartment, sat and talked for awhile, then went to bed, as we had an early start the next morning.

Ok, I figured if I didn't post SOMETHING I'd really get it tomorrow from Kerry. So here's a quick picture of me and my friend Cathy at BB Kings Blues Club on Beale Street.

This is to remember me by this weekend while I'm gone. This really is my last post before I leave.

AliceKay...do you know what this is???? I went out on my balcony this evening to start the barbecue so I could finish off the last porkchop before I left, and there was about four times as much of this today as there was yesterday.

Then while I was getting the coals nice and hot, something wasn't happy about my intrusion out there. I started hearing these squeaking noises coming from overhead, between the balcony above and the bricks of the building. Figure it out yet?

Yup, they're baaaaaack! My bats must be seasonal travelers and only come through in early summer. I think they are small brown bats, very common around here, although I never see them flying around at night. And from what AK has told me, bats (like mice) can fit into very small spaces, lol.

Everybody lose their appetite yet? LMAO

Short post tonight, because well...I already posted a picture for AK earlier today, lmao

Work was SO slow today. I stretched about an hour's worth of work into three hours, then finally had enough. I checked my available vacation days, saw I had a 1/2 day hanging around, my boss approved it, so I came home for the afternoon.

I started wathing Sunday's race that I had taped, hit stop to take a little nap, Kerry called to wake me up cause she knew I was sleeping, lmao. Then I watched the rest of the race. I already knew who won, found out accidentally from an email, oh well.

Tomorrow night there will be no post, as I will be packing for my trip to Memphis. It's supposed to be very hot there this weekend, upper 90's. Shorts sound about right. I'm going to have some barbecue while I'm there, go find some blues to entertain us, and just hang out with my friend. I'm getting so excited. I called her on the phone tonight just to make sure of how to find her apartment, and what time she'll be off work, etc. It was SO GOOD to talk to her, I think we'll have a blast!

I'll take my camera (AK) and post pictures when I get home!

Here you go, AliceKay...

Workers painting lines on the street in front of my building at work. LMAO

Much cooler today, thank you very much. Not much exciting happened today. Work was pretty slow. I basically got anything that needed to be done, off my desk. So tomorrow, who knows what I'll do, lol.

Been sitting here on the computer most the night. Should have called a friend, which I intended to do tonight, but g0t caught up with sending emails with Kerry. Maybe I'll try to call her tomorrow.

Maybe something exciting will happen tomorrow, so I'll have a blog subject, lol.

How many days in a row can I say it was hot? I guess today is the last time for a couple days at least. Tomorrow is only supposed to be about 80F.

Had a semi-boring day at work today. I had a few orders to enter, didn't take me long, but then I got to make the file folders for them, so that killed some time. Not much invoicing to do...only one customer, with one shipment today and one from Friday. Not enough to make it worthwhile to go through all the effort of printing the checklist for my boss to approve and then print the actual invoices. I'll wait until tomorrow when I should have a couple more to print.

This afternoon the sky started getting dark, as the storm system moved in that we were expecting today. It rained almost my whole way home, fortunately not that hard, pouring-down rain, just drizzle. Enough to make me put my wipers on medium delay. We really did need the rain, despite all the rain we got in the fall, and the snow in the winter; I had already started to notice the level of the lake by me was going down. Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of rain with this system. What we need is a good daylong soaking rain. But now that June is here we are more prone to the odd thunderstorm with brief periods of heavy rain.

I stopped at the store on the way home to pick up some food for this week. I think I bought just enough to get me through until Friday, when I head down to Memphis to visit my high school girlfriend. I have three porkchops to bbq, a banana for each morning (including Friday), some cantaloupe which I can inhale in one sitting, lol. I LOVE cantaloupe. I also saw some blackberries at the store, mmmmm, don't know how much they were, it's been so long since I had some, I HAD to buy them. Will take them to work tomorrow and have them with my lunch.

Tonight's dinner was a cheeseburger, just the burger and a slice of cheese and some katsup. No bun, lol. I also had a salad with it, to get some greens. I'm still working out during my lunch hour at work. I weighed myself late last week, but hadn't lost any weight so far. BUT, this weekend, my aunt asked if I was still walking. I told her I what I was doing at work, and said I hadn't lost any weight yet. She said, "You're compacting first, I noticed your butt was tighter." LMAO! Imagine that coming from my aunt! Kerry and Debby have met her, so they understand the hilarity behind that. She signs her emails to me "Your crazy Ant" and yes we spell it A-N-T. Can't remember why, she's my adopted aunt, not related by blood or marriage, so it started before I ever was "adopted" by the family.

Oh, and Hitch was great. I really liked that movie. It was on TBS last night, so not sure when they'll air it again. I'm sure you could rent it though. It was cute enough that I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Classic love story, boy meets girl, fall in love, won't admit it, hurt each other, make up and live happily ever after, lol. But it's what happens in between all that that makes the movie funny and cute. It's one I probably wouldn't mind owning.

I also borrowed Blood Diamond from my aunt to watch one of these days. And I still have to watch Sunday's Nascar race before Friday, since I'll be missing this next weekend's race, I think in Sonoma. Anyway, I've rambled on enough for tonight, time to start getting ready for bed, or I'll never get up in the morning.

Should I bother mentioning how hot it was here today? I'm glad air conditioning was invented!

Today I went to go see Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It was awesome! And in the comics, the Silver Surfer appears repeatedly to help them, so assuming there are future movies, he could be in more of them. It was only 89 minutes long, short enough to not make you antsy to be out of there, but long enough to give you some action and conclude the story.

Afterwards, I vaccumed my aunt's floors, then drove home. I was about 1/4 mile away from my exit and traffic came to a screeching halt. Apparently, there was an accident on the left shoulder, with the left lane closed around it, plus everyone had to gawk. I'm not sure what happened, but one of the cars had no rear bumper. It was laying on the ground behind the car. Must have been a nasty impact to completely remove the bumper. There was an ambulance there, but couldn't really tell if anyone was seriously injured.

I bbq'd a chicken breast tonight, did some laundry, and am watching Hitch while I type this, lol. So I don't miss too much, I better pay some attention to it, cause it's pretty hysterical so far.

Hot Hot Saturday. My Weather Underground link says it's 92F/34C out, but it might be hotter. I was holding off on turning my a/c on as long as I could. Last night while streaming, it was SO warm in my apartment, with nary a breeze through the windows. (It's gettin' hott in herre, so take off all your clothes) Sorry, I digress...but I always think of that song when someone says it's "hot in here."

Yesterday after work, I finally got my adapter for my keyboard, so I could hook it up to my old computer and run WipeDrive. After streaming, I turned on a small oscillating fan I have, sat in front of it, and started it up. After one minor problem with the startup, I finally got it working and proceeded to wipe the drive. The oh-so-easy instructions included with the software don't mention anything about change the boot sequence of your computer so it will boot off your cd-rom drive. I had to use my current computer to go to the website and troubleshoot it. *Sigh* Good thing I sorta knew what I was doing when I went into the old computer's BIOS, lol.

To make a long story short, the drive was wiped, I went to bed about 1:30, layed there in the heat for at least half an hour, partly due to the neighbors on their balcony that were talking way too loud for 2am, partly due to the fact that if I moved I was sweating. At 8:30, I woke up HOT, said F**K IT, and turned the a/c on in the living room. My alarm then went off at 9am, I hit snooze till 10am, finally got up, showered, dressed, checked email, then took my computer to the recycler across town. Then I headed north to Fantastic Sam's to get my hair cut. It's too hot to not get it cut, and I don't want it long and droopy for next weekend.

The a/c in the living room doesn't really cool this bedroom much, but it is just enough to take the edge off, so I'm not sweating as I sit here and type.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go see Fantastic 4: The Silver Surfer. I hope it's as good as the first one, I loved it!

NTT playlist has been sent to Kerry, so I'm all set for tonight. I might putz around in here for a bit, maybe see what else I can take care of. It's nice not seeing that old computer in here anymore, lol.

Sorry, had to show you one more cicada picture, lmao. This is a dead cicada that was found yesterday afternoon just outside the door to our office. One of our salesmen picked it up and brought it in to toss in the garbage. Instead, Cathy wanted to leave it for our boss John, as a surprise when he came out of his meeting. First they just put it on his desk, but then decided it would be funnier if they taped him to the windshield of this toy HON truck he has. They even wrote a note and made fake blood drips on the paper, lmao. The note said something about the cicada got hit by his HON truck. John got a good chuckle out of it, and it has been left taped to the truck still.

Then today, when I got to work about 8:15, Cathy mentioned to me that she captured a cicada that somehow made it into our office and was flying around. She put it in a cup , put a small plastic plate on it, and was going to leave it for Debbie, because she FREAKS when ever we talk about them. But then Cathy had a better idea. Instead of the plate, she got some plastic wrap and a rubberband, covered the cup with that, then punched air holes in the plastic. Debbie freaked when she came in and saw that on her desk. She almost turned right around and went home. We moved the cicada-in-a-cup to John's desk and put it next to the dead one still on the truck windshield. Everyonce in awhile, I would pick up the cup, and tilt it so the alive cicada could see his dead brother, lmao.

Late morning, one of our coordinators was outside smoking. Unbeknownst to him, a cicada bummed a ride up to our office. It flew around the office, so Cathy being the attentive bug lover she is, quickly scooped it up and put it in the same cup with the first one. We were hoping one was female and they'd mate. No such luck. Whenever one would fall over on his back, he'd vibrate his tympas. That was an interesting sound to hear in the office, lol. About lunchtime, John took the cup outside and set them free.

We do actually have a little fun in the office, thanks to Cathy, lol.

Here's the newly painted inside of the front door to my building, and the wall around it. The door is the rust color, and the wall around it is sort of a mustard color. Pretty disgusting if you ask me, lol. Before, the inside portion of the door and the wall were both white.

It's kind of dark, but that sort of gives you an idea of what the back door and wall to my building look like now. Before both the door and wall were white. The walls on either side are still white, I'm sure they're going to be painted, but just what color, I have no idea. Just to the left of the picture, which you can't see, is the door to my apartment.

I really wanted to get a better picture of all the cicadas, to give you a better idea of just HOW MANY there are by my work. I went out to the front of the building this morning, hoping to get a picture in the sunlight before they got too active and swarmy (is that a word? lol). Unfortunately, even with the zoom lens, my digital camera could not focus close up on one cicada, nor could you really see all of them on the trunks of the trees or on all the leaves when I stepped back and widened the view. Oh well. Suffice it to say, we probably have millions of them across the street from my building, which is part of a forest preserve (I think), with a river close by (hence my building is on N. River Road, lol).

I wish I had a recorder so you could hear how loud they are though. From inside the building, in our office on the second floor, we can hear the buzzing outside. When I was standing out front this morning, looking at a single cicada that was on a flat part of the base to one of the posts in front, all of a sudden it vibrated it's tymbals, and I was astounded at how loud it was! One little bug making a noise that loud. Fascinating. Put the million or so all together, and no wonder we can hear it inside our building. Of course, we have them on trees and ground on all four sides of the building, so I don't think any office is immune to the sound, except possibly the 12th floor, lmao.

For those of you who have never heard cicadas, here's a link to the song King of Cicada and in the middle part of the song they have some cicadas. The song itself is pretty bad, but at the middle of the song, if you turn your speakers up about halfway, that's how loud it is in some areas. C'mon, you know you want to hear it! LMAO!

Ok, enough on the cicadas. There was a note posted on the outside of the buildings in my complex yesterday. The note was dated the 11th, so it was only a day late. Apparently, the complex has money to spend, and they are going to be doing some refurbishing to the insides of the buildings. Things like paiting and new carpeting. That's all fine and dandy. I wish they'd spend it on better lighting in the parking lot before replacing the carpeting in my hallway that's only about 2 years old as it is. I haven't mentioned it to them yet, but maybe I will offer it as a "comment" tomorrow on the way home from work. I prefer talking to them in person whenever possible. Anyway...today I came home and they've started the painting already.

To give you some history, the outside of the outer doors used to be a dark green. Then a couple years ago, they came around and painted them a cream color. Made them look much nicer, and made the doorways more visible at night (in my opinion). When they painted the outsides of the doors, they left the insides of each door white. Within the last year, they replaced all the doorknobs and locks, and replaced the kick panels. Sometime today, they started painting the insides of the doors, and one wall. All fine and dandy, except for the color they picked. Maroon/rust. Very dark color for a stairwell that has one round light on each landing. I tried taking a picture of the fresh paint tonight, but the lighting is SO POOR, my camera couldn't even see anything, lol. Maybe tomorrow when it's lighter out. I just hope they don't paint ALL THE WALLS that same maroon/rust color. OMG, it will be so dark in the hallway if they do that. They only light we have, other than the artificial, is a small window next to the front door, and two windows in the front of the building above the door, one at about the 2nd floor and one at about the 3rd floor. And the front of the building faces NW, so it doesn't get any direct sunlight. Might have to ask the leasing office about the wall painting too, lol. Not that it will do anything, but they may not realize how dark the hallway will be if they paint all the walls that color.

Ok, finally sending the last few Don Williams songs to Kerry. I would start a few, then get distracted, remember 30 minutes later, start some more, get distracted, finally sending the last 9 or so. Will read an email or two while those go.

Hugs and smooches!

Here's the one picture I was able to get of the cicadas. These stones are about 18 inches square and run between the parking garage and my building. I was standing in the parking garage to take this picture, because so many cicadas were flying around and I didn't want them landing on me. In fact, when I first walked up to that area and saw how many were crawling on the ground, before I could take a picture one landed on my stomach area, and naturally I freaked. They don't bite, they don't carry germs, but I do have this thing about "flying bugs" coming at me, lol. There was a higher concentration of the cicadas underneath one of the tables that's out there for people to sit at. I would have loved to have gotten a picture of the cicadas crawling up the trunks of the trees, they were all lined up, reminding me of the old bread lines from the Great Depression.

I've decided that I am VERY happy not to have the cicadas by my apartment. There are so many of them flying around, crawling around and buzzing in the trees by my work. The buzzing is so loud we can hear it inside our office. As I leave work to come home, they fly across the road, landing on the car, landing on the road. They're sort of funny to watch fly; I think their wings aren't made for any long term flying, so they sort of dip and twist almost out of control, lol. Definitely an experience to see. Since they are more active in the late afternoon (when I took the above photo), I'm going to take my camera to work again tomorrow and try to see if there are any out in the morning, when I won't be attacked by them. Within a couple weeks, the females will have laid their eggs in the trees, and then died. Once the eggs hatch, the nymphs drop to the ground, burrow down to find tree roots where they stay for 17 years, to emerge in 2024, molt, mate, and start the process all over again.

For those brave enough, here's a link to CicadaMania, a website with pictures and videos of the cicadas, many close up photos, so you can see the red beadie eyes. I haven't seen any with white, blue, or mustard colored eyes yet. Not sure if the variance in eye color is widespread, or limited to just some areas. Here's another interesting website with some interesting facts about cicadas.

Ok, shake off that buggie feeling, and scroll down to my next post, lol.

I thought I'd post this in addition to the picture of the cicadas, to keep everyone from being so freaked out. This is my desk. It's actually a U shape, I just didn't include part of it in the pictures. My desk is quite neat right now because I don't have a lot to do. I have gotten a few new customers in the past month, but so far, it hasn't added a lot of work to my day. So now ya'll can picture me sitting there day after day, doing whatever I have to do that day, lol.

I'm so glad my legs aren't as sore today as they were yesterday! I did not go on the elliptical today, wanted to give my legs another day's rest. I did walk on the treadmill for about 30 minutes, and then did some reps on the weight machines. I was hoping to maybe spend part of my time on the one stationary cycle, but another woman came in and got on it while I was still on the treadmill. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Tonight I came home, cooked my pork chop on the bbq, went in to chat for a bit. It got boring, so I left, and decided I'd try to work on some of the clutter in this room. I pulled out some empty boxes and matched them up with a few figurines I used to have displayed but no longer have space for. I also noticed I had a few duplicates I had forgotten about. I marked those boxes as duplicates. I found one box that I cannot figure out what went in it. Something somewhat breakable, because there's styrofoam on the inside. I searched the apt and couldn't find anything close to resembling the shape of the styrofoam. I'll hold onto the box for a bit, maybe I'll come across it later. I'm still deciding what I'm going to do with these figurines. They are by no means a complete collection, but overall a good deal of money was spent on them. Wondering if I should try to sell them? I have Calico Kittens (discontinued) by Enesco and several unicorn figurines I'm going to pack away. The unicorns have been on a corner shelf in my bedroom, but I'm also getting tired of that, so that's part of my overall plan to reduce clutter.

At least I know I did get at least SOMETHING accomplished tonight.

Tomorrow I'll be bringing you the adventures of the 17 year plague! LMAO

Another unproductive weekend bites the dust. My legs have been just killing me this weekend, so I didn't have the desire to do much of anything. I started working out at the new workout center at work during my lunch hour. Well, let me just say that to go more than 5 minutes on the elliptical, you need to have killer thighs. Since I don't, the 5 minutes I tried it almost killed me. And I've been paying for it all weekend. Every move to stand from a sitting position or vice versa just KILLS me. THE PAIN!!!! CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY!

So needless to say, I didn't do much of anything this weekend. Yesterday I took my car to the dealer to have the oil changed and the tires rotated. Wanted the car to be in tip-top shape for my trip to Memphis on the 22nd. I also bought an adapter, that will allow me to use my new keyboard with my old computer. It's a PS/2 to AT reverse keyboard adapter, not that it means anything to most of you. I'm just glad AliceKay helped me find it at TigerDirect.com. AND, it gets shipped out of the warehouse IN THE TOWN I LIVE IN, so I should have it tomorrow. Too bad I can't just go pick it up and save the shipping costs, lol.

Today I got up nice and early for Kerry's stream, got on the computer, started up msn (no kerry, but that's not unusual), logged in to chat, no Kerry. That IS unusual for a Sunday morning. I was told by the few people there that she had to go somewhere. I thought, "Since I didn't get an offline msn message, maybe there's on on icq." I logged in to icq, nothing. Hmmmm, ok I'll check email, everyone in the room knows so she wasn't going to be there. Oh look, an email! Hmmm, going somewhere with LH, she'll let us know where later. Ok. I sat in the room listening to Cry, until he played something that I didn't care to listen to on a Sunday morning. Shut that down, and clicked to see if AliceKay was still streaming (since I know she sometimes runs long on Sunday mornings). She was still streaming, for a few songs anyway, then when she was done, I left chat and went to do something else while I waited for the race to start.

Or should I say, I waited and waited and waited and waited, and FINALLY it started after 4pm because of a rain delay. The race was just starting to get interesting and they start talking about more rain coming to the area, and just after halfway...you guessed it, rain. They stopped the race and after about 30-45 minutes, finally called it official. Rain-shortened races are never very exciting because you don't get the scramble at the end for positions. Oh well, at least the winner was one of the drivers I have in the fantasy league I participate in.

After that was over, I checked and there's NOTHING on tv tonight. Not interested in watching the Tony's, I don't go to Broadway, so why bother? LOL. Figured I might as well come and type something up for people to read either later tonight or tomorrow morning. Then while typing it, I get a knock on my door. I go answer it, it's one of the guys from upstairs. Apparently his girlfriend lost an expensive bracelet through the slats on their balcony and they were hoping it was on mine. I look out there, nope no bracelet. But, it could have fallen between mine and been in the tarp thingy the guy below me put up to catch all the birdseed from my feeder. I grabbed my flashlight, found it, asked her to describe it, she did; I suggested they ask the gentleman on the first floor to pull back his tarp to get the bracelet. Fortunately, he was home. I grabbed my broom, because I knew there'd be seed to sweep up after. He got the bracelet out, went back inside his apartment, the youngsters left, I swept the birdseed off his patio and came back up here to finish the sentence I was in the middle of, lol.

Oh yeah, and I did two loads of laundry today.

Such an exciting life I lead!

The best laid plans.............

Tonight my plan was to set up my old computer and run WipeDrive, to clean the hard drive of any of my old information, so I could recycle the computer on Saturday here in town.

However, after digging out the old tower and monitor, hooking them up, and trying to hook up a mouse or keyboard to it, I realized the only mouse and keyboard I have are too new to be compatible with the old computer.

*Sigh*

Guess that project will have to wait, and now this bedroom is in worse shape than it was just 30 minutes ago, lol.