Sure.

So things go along, another three months go along.

My friends take their turns, and the next time it comes to be my turn, um, we were talking about the little free libraries and what we were gonna do.

But in the meantime it was the fall, the, the autumn time of year, and I had gone through some of my, uh, winter items and was just kind of arranging, taking stock, wanting to get things on sale if possible, and realized that I had a whole bunch of extra gloves.

Kinda laughed to myself, um, and asked my friends, both the ones, a- all of them that were with me crafting, but also in my Facebook, that if anybody had some extra items, that I decided that I wanted to take any extra down to local shelters because I volunteer as an individual at shelters.

And I knew that even though I had that many, others did not, and I wanted to share what I had.

So I reached out into my personal community and then, um, put- I got a very huge response, a huge, wonderful response from my comm- my personal community.

Sure, yeah.

Yeah.

And so the thing that felt closest to that, we had just flown the first human flight of New Shepard, and I realized that is where I wanted to be.

You know, I love working operations, test operations, and flight operations.

Felt a really close, um, step to that and, um, and closer to actually putting people in space.

So I, um, had a good friend and, and mentor, Audrey Powers, who we actually flew on New Shepard, which is really cool.

Um, I talked to her, and I told her, "You know, this is really where I wanna be." She was, uh, the vice president of New Shepard Mission Operations and Maintenance, and, uh, she brought me over to work on her team and set me up with a role doing that.

So I did that for a couple of years.

I think just because they, they do the math, and so they, they have a factual sense of the, of the risk.