I'm grateful for the announcement that my gym is reopening on March 28th. In about two weeks. It's been officially over two years since my gym has been opened and I remember the very last moment I was there. I thought it was right as COVID-19 kind of going through its big arrival. And there was a lot of unknowns of what was going to happen, were we going to have to shut things down, what's going on, and I remember leaving the gym that night and the person who ran the gym was there as I exited and I just asked her real quick. I was like, "so, you think if you guys are gonna have to shut down because of this covid thing?" And super casually she just kind of looked up and was like, "Nah, I don't think so." That was two years ago. It shut down the very next day and it didn't open for another two years. And I understand I could probably have found another gym at some point during this whole stretch off. It's a little bit tougher in my area. Plus, gyms didn't seem like such a great idea when covid was hitting super hard. So I was kind of just holding out hope for it to open back up at some point. It's also extremely affordable compared to most other gyms. I was just holding out hope and trying to make do at home and I don't know I know my workouts can go further I can always find different derivations at home inside you just get to a point where you are done and you need a different venue. I can only do so many things with my 25 lb dumbbells, and feel like I'm really doing it. So, yeah, I'm super excited to actually get back in there and start throwing weights around and maybe -there's even a basketball court. Maybe play indoor basketball for the first time since two thousand- early two thousand twenty which that'd be another big moment for me.

I have a couple of interesting programs going on at the library this week and I'm actually filming a segment for this internet show that it's sort of an odd thing, It's, it's a kids show that they show on our Facebook page at the library but then it also airs on PBS, and they've asked me to do a segment for it, that I'm filming. Luckily, I don't have to do it live, which the show itself is live, but they add in pre-recorded pieces to that show. So I'm filming a segment about sand and I have absolutely no idea. What I'm going to do. It's designed for like two to six-year-olds. So I have to come up with like two or three minutes worth of of material, basically abouts and that, these two to six-year-olds can relate to. So, I actually, today after work, I drove down to the beach and picked up some sand because I didn't have any and needed it as a prop for my for my video here. And then I'm thinking is it illegal to pick up sand from a beach? A public beach. I have no idea. I probably should have looked that up before I went to this beach and did this. It was like eight small scoop-fulls, you know, shovel-fulls that I put into this small bucket and I probably you know, I'm thinking, you know, national parks, you can't take things out of national parks. There's all kinds of rules about things and I didn't even think of it until I'm kind of driving away going, oh man maybe I wasn't supposed to do that. Maybe there's some I should really look up to see if there's some sort of a a rule about that. I was just so thrilled that the snow that we got last night had not covered up the sand on the beach that I went to.