that

you're not going to get more than a scale 15, 20 miles an hour.

Out of my locomotives, I don't care how high you crank it because it's all yard limits.

This is all slow moving stuff.

And what I encourage people to do is just relax and enjoy this process and not worry about having to rush through it.

Just enjoy it.

People comment that they enjoy that part of operating on my layout and it doesn't feel rushed.

Red dirt caveman like me, I can't compete with these California design guys.

I want you to talk a bit about that and then talk about how model railroading has kinda helped you in that retirement transition.

Oh, yeah.

A great topic, actually.

I was, I was looking at some psychological research a number of years ago, and it was an author, and I don't remember their names unfortunately, but they had developed a stressful life events scale.

And, you know, basically, they interviewed a bunch of people and they rank ordered life events in terms of their level of, of their pers- the perceived level of stress.

And you can imagine, like, you know, you know, topping up on the list there is things like going to prison.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that would, that'd be pretty big for me.

You made that choice." But it, it's kind of in those same feelings of losing your skeleton, as you mentioned, your purpose, and then refinding that purpose like you found it in being this project manager of sorts for the regional convention and finding new ways to build structure in your life, and you found a way to make model railroading kind of the skeleton, or at least a part of that skeleton.