Thank you.

Uh, Patrick Ross, 66049.

Um, I might just have a few rambling thoughts, honestly.

I...

You know, I've talked about this for a couple years.

Uh, first off, I wanna really give, uh, thanks to Director Morninger.

I had the pleasure of speaking with her earlier this year on a few issues related to transportation.

Patrick, what was like, going back to your first time there, what was the, what was the thing that, uh, surprised you the most?

Um, that, like the descriptions.

[laughs] So J- uh, Matt mentioned at the beginning of the podcast that, uh, you know, there's really high-level information released about each event.

And uh, so like I remember at the KSB pump, the, uh...

Actually, it might have been the s- the second time for the Grundfos pump.

Um, but I mean, they listed torque specs and what sockets and what, you know, size of everything to use.

And then, [laughs] uh, we go to do the pump event or read the procedure and it was none of those sizes.

So competitions like this, competitions like the, the, the, uh, the water, uh, you know, war- world water skills there at EFOT or Operations Challenge at WEFTEC, why do you think events like this are so important, um, you know, not just for you guys as competitors, but, you know, for, you know, the organizations and, and to showcase the operators? We'll start, uh, start with you Patrick.