Hi, this is Dr. Don and I want to show you real quickly, step-by-step how to use the PHStat regression tool. We're going to forecast into the future for the 1st of November 2020, and as you might remember, I put in this date format and I just converted it over here, copied it into number format. 44 and 136 is the number format for 11-1-2020, and that's what you need for your X value to put into PHStat. So let's go to PHStat, regression, simple linear regression, and we get this dialog box. Make sure you select the Y variable, that's your response variable. In this case we're going to use USA Sales, drag that down to the bottom, make sure that you capture everything, it's awful easy to let your finger up and not capture that last cell, click in the X, which is the predictor variable, and that's going to be month, and I'm going to drag that down, and then I double check to make sure that I've got the same number of values. If you don't have the same number of values for the predictor and the response, you'll get an error. I've got first cells in both ranges contain a label, which they do. I'm going to leave the confidence limit at 95%. I want the ANOVA, I want the residuals table, I want to get the residuals plot, and I want the Durbin Watson statistic, and we're going to get the confidence interval. I think my X was 44256, and I want the 95% confidence interval for that, and I'm going to click OK. And then PHStat inserts a number of tabs, here's the data, original data. Compute has the ANOVA, which you need, and some information up there on your beta coefficients and your half width around beta 1 and beta 0, in case you need to do confidence intervals for those, it's right there for you. We've got, this is the data that it used, it just copies it to show you exactly what it used. These are the residuals, if you are using the data analysis and don't have the Durbin Watson, this is the information you need, the actual residuals, that's the plot data. These are the residual plots, and you can definitely see we have seasonality there, and there's my Durbin Watson statistic 0.2043. So if you're getting errors in these, usually over here in your ANOVA, if you get error messages, that means you probably made a mistake when you were working through this dialog box, and as I said, the most common mistake that I see is people not having matching numbers of x's and y's, or sometimes they will try to have a categorical variable in there, and that won't work, it's got to be quantitative variables, and again remember these dates are really numbers behind the scenes. So that's what normally happens, I hope this helps.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Playbook Football 8 box half case picker team number three. A half case from a fresh case.   Thanks everybody. We did a couple number block, random number block randomizers. This one we did yesterday. But there are the results if you're looking for that video it'll be under the Sunday videos. Set that over there. And then we did another number block just a few moments ago that's also uploaded in a separate video. So block of numbers just for those teams just for that break. Alright now let's pop open this fresh playbook case right here. And let's see which half we're going to do. This will be my first look at playbook football. Alright so there's eight boxes on the left side, eight boxes on the right side. We're going to select one die out of here. Let's go with that blue one. And we'll go one two three for the left column four five six for the right column. And it's four one two three four five six. And this side we will save for next time. So next one will be break four. So we'll mark all of those with four. You can see it right there as well so you know they're all from the same case. And hopefully we can run that back, hopefully we can run this back tonight. Alright so what are we looking at? We got Mahomes on the box, four autographs or memorabilia cards per box on average. Rookie Playbook Jersey autographs numbered to whatever less vault trifle jersey autos. That sounds cool too. It opens like a book. Like a playbook. Let's see what we have here. Let's also use this blank card right here to hide the hits a little bit. Alright here we go. Box one. I'll start off with David and Yoku down and dirty. 84 out of 99 for the Browns. Mark Miller with the Browns. This is for you. We'll save the book. And we got here we got Chas Sarat 17 out of 99 for the Vikings. It's going to go to Patrick in Minnesota. Now be your Kirk Cousins from Minnesota. Down here is Len Dawson Jersey and autograph old chief going to Cayenne with Kansas City. That's nine out of 25 on that Len Dawson good penmanship there as well. And the book in playbook is is a Justin Fields 36 out of 99 dual relic book. And so that's Bears 6. 36 is Jeff Lydell. There you go Jeff. I was gonna have some ink in there. They do hit you with the dual relic sometimes. Alright next box. Alright we got CJ Henderson 92 out of 99 for the Jags. Jaguars making some additions to their team. They got Christian Kirk on that team. So Jaguars are a number block team so that goes to that digit right there. 92 out of 99. Jacksonville 2 is score for On Hell. Redemption and Travis Etienne Jr. 3 out of 49 another one for Jacksonville. So if they get this guy healthy be a pretty dynamic playmaker for the Jaguars. So that's 3 out of 49 3 is Ryan Bartow with number 3. The book is just a rookie Jumbo memorabilia. I don't think any ink but some green foil. What's going on here? Eagles 10 out of 49 Devonta Smith. Oh nice. That's really cool. Philly. Philadelphia is part of that Cincinnati Jacksonville number block group. So that goes to Philadelphia zero and that's going to be for Matt Arnold and the number zero. Then to a slider box. Let's see what this redemption is all about. Good luck everybody. We have a Sincher Routes Platinum. Is that a one-of-one? To the checklist cardboardconnection.com. Playbook football checklist. Sincher Routes. No. Platinum is out of 49 or less. Tags are one-of-ones. Car 34. J. Aposry. That's Jamar. Jamar Chase. Nice. So it says out of 49 or less. Hopefully it'll be hopefully it'll be less. So Cincinnati is a number block team. So Cincinnati zero Matt Arnold. Congrats Matt. Zero gets any and all Redemptions. Including one-of-one Redemptions. I did not even. I don't look at those notes. Unfortunately. Sorry. Alright. Okay. I see what you guys did.  Two spots in that origins filler. I'm gonna do this now before I forget. Otherwise I'm definitely gonna forget. One of them is just gonna be Pat Wolfe too. Guys are good. Alright. Onwards. Next box. Nice from Mark Chase Redemption. When we go through orders we just go through the I just go by the order confirmation emails that I receive. You guys will see when then I'll get one too. So if there's a special, if there's a note there, be sure to let me know in the chat. And if it's a shipping note then don't put it in the notes. Contact support. If you go to the website jasphyscaserates.com in the bottom corner there'll be a button where you can reach out to us. Alright. Hot routes. Miko Harbin. 32 out of 149. That'll be for Kym and the Chiefs. We got a, we got points. We'll randomize that to one person in the break. And back here is Cadarius Tony. Nice. Rookie Auto 7 out of 49. That'll be for the New York football Giants. Vlad with that one. There's a 7 out of 49 right there. And the game of, it's a game of inches book. 13 out of 49. It's an Eagle. And it's Jalen Hertz. Yeah, usually some really cool photography here. Nice. So Eagles 3. Eagles 3. Philadelphia 3 is Ryan Bartow. There you go Ryan. I'll bet the lower numbered ones would probably look really cool there. That's a redemption. And winner take all on the points by the way. We'll do that randomizer at the end. It's David Nyoku. 265 out of 299. Cleveland. This is for you. Mark Miller with the Browns. So we got a redemption. And we got a Justin Fields autograph. 3 out of 10. Nice. Bears were a number locked team. Chicago 3. Jeff Henn.  The book. Rookie Jumbo memorabilia. Jamar Chase. 57 out of 99. Bangles 7. That will be for Cincinnati 7. Mark Rao. Redemption. Good luck everybody. Rookie signatures blue. Rookie signature blue. Blue is out of 25. We have the letter K. Y. Kyle. Kyle Pitts. Yes Kyle Pitts for Atlanta. That's going to be for Brody. There you go Brody. That's his team right there. Halfway through this half case break. Remember second half in the store.  No fillers yet. Some nice teams still available.  You want to be eligible for that March Madness promo. A little bit of a bend in that card there. Alright double moves. Keenan Allen dual relic. 35 out of 2.99. That's that's hung with the Chargers. We got Davis Mills. Mammoth materials. 69 out of 99 for for Logan and the Texans. Ron saying what up Ron. You've watched 10 K's of this. Bought into and you have yet to see a single bills card. Really. Did he forget the bills in this set. There is goal line graphs. Ricky Waters. Remember Ricky Waters. 101 out of 199. Jersey and autograph. Eagles 1 is going to be for for Mike Joseph. Las Palmojo. And the book is this way. 32 out of 2.99. Terrace Marshall Jr. Nice. Big Jersey. Autograph. Panthers. Brian Watford picked up the Carolina Panthers straight up. Nice. Alright next one. Good luck everybody. We got Jacob Harris. That's a nice patch. 28 out of 49. Super Bowl champion. And that'll be for David T. and the Rams. We got Kyle Trask. Mammoth materials. 003 out of 2.99. Looks like he has to marinate behind Brady for another year. That goes to the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay is a number block team. So Tampa Bay 3. Part of the Chicago group. Jeff Henn with Tampa Bay 3. There's a signature routes. No offense. 4 out of 49. Went to Seattle in that Russell Wilson deal. But still Bronco's addition here. That's Denver 4. Denver 4 is Allen Murdoch. Denver 4. Alright the book is 11 out of 2.99. These are the back of the book. And it's going to be Givante Williams. Another Bronco. This time Denver 1. Mike Joseph. That's good use of the canvas right there. Nice. Nice big signature. Alright two more to go. Also on those points if it lands on a number block team we'll give it to 0. Just like like a because we'll be redeeming points like a redemption. There's a Mirosmith Marseille 68 out of 75. Kind of hard to see the blue foil right there but it says mammoth materials. That'll be for Patrick Davis and the Vikings. Routes. Kyle Pitts. 2.94 out of 2.99 for Brody and the Falcons. And we've got nice Mike Allstad. Look at that photo of Mike Allstad diving into the end zone. That's pretty cool. Eight out of 25. Jersey and autograph. So Tampa Bay 8 is going to be for Michael. Michael P. with Tampa Bay 8. And the book. Back in the book. This way. We got a Mirosmith Marseille. That's pretty cool. Six pieces of his jersey right here. It's autograph on the left side. Rookie signature locker. 96 out of 99. That's cool too. That's going to go to Patrick and the Vikings. Final box. Number second half in the store.  Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. Win yourself a March Madness Promo spot. There's Anthony Schwartz. 2.68 out of 2.99. Cleveland this is for you. Mark Miller. The Browns. We got Jamar Chase. Hot Routes. 95 out of 2.99. That's pretty good. Cincinnati 5. That is for Pratad with Cincinnati 5. We got Quinn Williams. 33 out of 35 for the Jets. Brian Fitzgerald. Picking up the Jets straight up. And the final book. Good luck everybody. Is 1.26 out of 1.99. And it's Travis Etienne Jr. That's nice. So hopefully he'll be. Hopefully he'll be awesome this year. So Jacksonville of course is a number block team. So we would go by that digit right there. Jacksonville 6. That's going to be for Thomas. Thomas M. with Jacksonville 6. Congrats. And that's that ladies and gentlemen. Alright let's give away these points. And March Madness spot. So let's go back to the dice right here. So let's gather teams for the points. And again if it lands on a number block team it'll go to number zero. And now for the March Madness spot. Only people who bought spots straight up count. So let's gather those names. That'll be the second. So one dice roll for both lists. Let's roll it. Randomize it. Two out of three. Five times. Points first. One. Two. Team on top will get a three. Four. And once more. Fifth and final time. Six hundred points going to the Falcons. Which is owned by Brody. Brody bought the Falcons straight up. So there you go Brody. Six hundred points going your way. Two out of three. Five times for the March Madness spot. One March Madness spot being given away after five. That's a great promo. Check out the details on jaskyscasebreaks.com. Name on top gets it. Good luck. One. Two. Three. Four. And fifth and final time. So from two on down very close Aaron. But no go. Thanks for giving that a shot. Appreciate everybody giving it a shot. Thank you. But name on top. You're in the promo. And that's Brian Watford. Congrats Brian. After five times you are in the Jaspys March Madness promo. Check out the details on the website and be sure to check the break schedule. Make sure your name is in there as well. We were keeping track of it all in on the break schedule. It's in under the basketball emoji tab. So check that out. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us and I'll see you next time for the next one.


these garbled gates, okay? So at the moment, I showed you a construction where the garbled gates cost four ciphertext. And if you recall, we chose all the wire labels randomly, but what if I chose the output wire label C0 in this case to be the value that when encrypted under A0, B0 gives the all zeros ciphertext. So by choosing C0 in that way, it ensures that the first ciphertext and this picture is always all zeros all the time. That means I don't really have to send it, right? It can just be understood to be the all zeros ciphertext by the receiver. So I really only have to send three ciphertext. There's another advanced technique that's due to Pinkus at all that further reduces the size of these garbled gates from four to two. I won't tell you how to do it, but for the purposes of the talk, we'll need to know that such a thing exists. So that's one way to reduce the size of a garbled circuit. Another one that I want to talk about is free XOR. So to understand free XOR, let me introduce an additional quantity called, that'll call the offset of a wire. So the XOR of the two wire labels on a wire is the offset and it'll be convenient for us to just give that a special name like Delta. So here are three wires. They have three different offsets, but the idea of free XOR is to arrange things so that every wire in the circuit has the same secret offset that I'll call Delta. And you'll notice that if you take any combination of input wires and XOR them together, there's only two possible things that you get out that I've drawn in the picture here and their logic corresponds to the logic of an XOR gate. So really I don't have to send any ciphertext at all. You evaluate this garbled gate just by XORing the input wire labels. So this is great, XOR gates are free, and, but I still have to garble the other non-XOR gates. Okay, so that's another way to reduce the size of a garbled circuit. And so free XOR is great and it's kind of the, has been the king of garbled circuits for a while, but I'll just wanna point out a couple small limitations. The first is kind of a theoretical concern that namely free XOR requires some sort of strong hardness assumption on the encryption function that you use to generate the garbled gates. I'll come back to that in a second. There is a construction by Applebaum that avoids this, but it somehow, it changes the rules a bit for one thing and it uses kind of a randomized encoding. And it also, its concrete parameters aren't really competitive with block cipher or key derivation function-based garbled circuits. And the other limitation of free XOR is that it's incompatible with this row reduction technique that reduces garbled gates from four to two cipher texts. So if you use free XOR, your XOR gates are free, you can get the other gates to cost three cipher texts but you can't get the other gates to cost two cipher texts and I'll get into more detail about why that is, but it's a limitation of the free XOR technique. So the question that motivates our work is whether we can get the benefits of free XOR as much as possible without these two limitations that I mentioned and I won't leave you in suspense. The answer is yes, we can do this and so for the rest of the talk, I'd like to explain why that is and how we go about doing that. So in this work, we present a new way to garbled XOR gates that I'll call flexible XOR or flexor for short. So it's a way to generate a garbled circuit, a new way to deal with XOR gates in a garbled circuit and so I've drawn an XOR gate here and there are three wires touching it and they have different offsets. You know, if they all had the same offset, I would probably just use the free XOR approach and I'd be happy but this is a new way to deal with what happens when there are different offsets on the different wires. So in my head, I think, well, let me just come up with some, these two input wires don't have good offsets for me, I want them to have offset delta C. Why don't I just imagine a new set of wire labels, I'll just pull them out of the air and these wire labels have the correct offset and so I want the output be offset delta C, I'll just imagine two new pairs of wire labels that have output offset delta C and if I can somehow translate from the old wire labels to these new wire labels, then using the new wire labels I could just use the free XOR trick with no further cryptography. So the question is, how can I get from these old wire labels to these new wire labels and the way to do that is, why don't I just encrypt the old false, encrypt the new false label using the old false labels as a key, encrypt the new true label under the old true label and I'll do that for both of these wires. So I claim that these ciphertexts that I've shown here allow you to go from the old wire labels to the new wire labels on which you'll just do the free XOR trick, right? So if you know exactly one of the input wire labels, you'll be able to open exactly one of the ciphertext and get exactly one of the new labels and then you'll be all set to do the free XOR trick, okay? So this is great and hopefully you're convinced that it works but maybe this is nothing to be very proud about because I've shown you how to garble an XOR gate using four ciphertexts, which is not very good at all but fortunately we can reduce the size of these ciphertext by using this row reduction trick, right? So instead of, in this picture, I'm choosing A star and B star randomly, I don't have to do that, why don't I choose A star and B star to be the values that cause those first ciphertext in each pair to be all zeros, right? I can do that and now I'm only giving you two ciphertexts to garble this XOR gate, okay? That's a little bit better and I'll make one further observation that if this first input wire already had the offset that I needed for the output wire, I don't have to do anything at all, right? The purpose of these two ciphertexts was to translate from one offset to another but if it's already the right offset to begin with, I don't have to give you any ciphertext and same for the bottom wire, right? If all three of the original offsets are the same, I don't have to give you any ciphertext at all and the construction collapses to free XOR in that case. So overall, our flexor construction is a way to garble XOR gates and the size of the garbled gate is zero, one or two ciphertext and that size depends on how many of these different offsets match up, right? So if I could get a lot of offsets to be the same, then I get to include fewer ciphertexts in the final garbled circuit, okay? So you might be wondering at this point where did these offsets come from? They're kind of mysterious. So I wanna talk about that for a second. So let me define a wire ordering as just a way to assign offsets to different wires in the circuit. So I might say that these wires get some offset delta one and these wires get an offset delta two and so on. And if I choose these offsets in different ways, I'll get a garbled circuit of different sizes because that's the way this flexor scheme works. And so we kind of have an optimization problem. We wanna assign offsets to each wire in such a way that it kind of minimizes the total size of the garbled circuit. One way to choose offsets is to just put every wire, say every wire has the same offset and then our construction becomes free XOR. That's one way to do it, but I also want to avoid some of the limitations of free XOR, the two limitations that I mentioned earlier. And I claim that there is a property of these wire orderings such that if you use a wire ordering with that property, you avoid limitation number one and there's another property of wire orderings and if you use our construction with the wire ordering of that property, you avoid limitation number two. And so we end up getting kind of an interesting combinatorial optimization problem. So we wanna find the assignment of offsets to wires in a circuit subject to these combinatorial constraints, which I'll describe that minimizes the total cost of the garbled circuit in the end, okay? So I'm gonna tackle these two points one at a time here. So the first limitation of free XOR is that it requires some kind of circularity assumption on the encryption scheme. So why is that? So recall in free XOR, the XOR gates are free, but an AND gate is not free. You have to generate some ciphertext. So here's a garbled AND gate and I'm in the free XOR context because it's the same delta everywhere. So that's the free XOR setting. And look what we did here. Delta is a secret and I'm using it as a kind of in the key context and kind of in a plain text context. That's a key cycle. So a normal encryption scheme isn't quite secure. Under this usage, you need an assumption of some a circular security assumption, okay? So we wanna avoid that by choosing offsets on the wires in a special way. And how do you avoid a key cycle? Well, we're gonna impose a numbering on all the offsets. I'm gonna make sure that whenever I generate a ciphertext, the index of the key is smaller than the index of the plain text that it's encrypting. I could do that just by having this monotonicity property of the circuit, right? The index of these offsets always increases as I go from inputs to outputs. That means I'm always generating ciphertext that we're kind of obeying a total order. There's never gonna be a cycle. And I'll just point out that for an AND gate, I always encrypt the output wire under the input wire. But for an XOR gate, I don't always generate ciphertext. Like if the input wire label, if the input offset equals the output offset, I don't include a ciphertext in that case. So that's why I have a strict inequality in the first case and a non-strict inequality in the second case, okay? But hopefully it's clear that if the wire ordering satisfies this property, I never generate any sort of key cycles. The keys obey a nice linear order. I can have the proof go through with a standard weaker assumption. So that's what we prove in the paper. So instantiate our flexor construction and garble a circuit. If you're using a monotone wire ordering, you don't need the circularity assumption. You need a weaker related key assumption that turns out to be kind of the same assumption that you use for OT extension. So if you're interested in practical NPC, you're already okay with that assumption. Otherwise you're taking way too long to do lots of OTs. So there are many different wire orderings that satisfy this monotonicity property. We show that it's NP hard to find the optimal one, the one that completely minimizes the size of the garbled circuit. But we have a heuristic that's very simple. It seems to do okay. So let's see exactly how well it does. So as I said, our metric in this talk is the total size of the garbled circuit and I'm measuring it here in ciphertext per gate. So in the classical scheme, you can do every gate using two ciphertexts. In the free XOR scheme, XOR gates are zero. Non-XOR gates are three. So for different circuits, you get different numbers. And our flexor instantiated with a monotone ordering that we can find through a heuristic gives this performance. It's a little bit worse than free XOR. So, but it's kind of comparable, I would say. And I think this is an interesting theoretical question. Like what is the cost of the circularity assumption in this domain? That's kind of an interesting question, but maybe you don't care about hardness assumptions. You just want fast as possible NPC. If you're willing to pay, you know, random oracle model is fine. You just want a small garbled circuit as possible. Then you're really gonna love the next part of the talk, where I talk about, we're gonna revisit this idea of row reduction, okay? So I mentioned that free XOR is incompatible with this really aggressive four to two row reduction that reduces the size of the garbled gates to two ciphertexts. So why is that? And if you remember, the way we got from four to three is by instead of choosing a wire label uniformly at random, we chose it as a fixed function of the input wire labels. We had no control over what this wire label should be. It was totally determined by the input wire labels. And I won't describe what the four to two row reduction is, but the way that it works is by setting both of the output wire labels implicitly as a function of the input wire labels. So when you use this four to two row reduction, you have no control over the output wire labels. That means you have no control over the offset. And that sort of makes it hard to work with free XOR because free XOR says every wire has to have this fixed offset that's not gonna happen here. Okay, but flexor has no such limitation about the offsets. Different wires can have different offsets and we're happy. So imagine you had a wire ordering where you look at all of the AND gates in the circuit and look at all of their output wires and none of them shared the same offset. So that means when I go to garble this first AND gate, I'll use two ciphertext and I'll have no control over the offset. But that's fine. That's the first time I ever used Delta I. And so that'll kind of implicitly set Delta I. It'll set it outside of my control. And that's fine because next time I get to another AND gate and I go to garble it, I'll never be asked to have it match the offset of Delta I. It'll always be a fresh offset that I've never seen before. All right, so that's kind of the idea. All the AND gates outputs have to have different offsets. And there's some fine print that if you're really curious, I encourage you to look at the paper for it. But this is the main idea, is just to ensure that AND gates have distinct offsets. And so we show that if you use a wire ordering of this kind and you garble the circuit with flexor, you can garble AND gates with two ciphertexts and then of course you can garble XOR gates with zero, one or two, right? So that's kind of nice. We don't exactly have a proof of NP completeness or NP hardness. We assume that it's NP hard, but we just don't happen to have a proof in the paper. We have a heuristic that seems to do well. And so I have another slide showing how well it does. So this is the current state of the art in the talk. And now what happens, now that we're able to reduce the size of AND gates as well, we can actually do better than free XOR, which is something that was very surprising to me when I started this project. I didn't think it was possible to have smaller garbled circuits than the top two rows here. But in fact, we can have smaller garbled circuits than free XOR. And I'm almost out of time, but I just want to say a couple of things. First is that these bottom two rows just reflect the heuristics that we were able to find. We don't claim that these are as low as flexor can go. You might be able to find better wire orderings that will decrease the size of the garbled circuits further. And the other thing is I just want to remind you that if you were to implement flexor, which is on our list of things to do, that it collapses to free XOR in a very natural way. So it's not like you have to choose between row two and row four, right? It looks like sometimes free XOR is better, sometimes flexor is better.  Well, if you implement flexor, there's going to be a trivial way to have it give you the minimum of rows two and row four. So it's not like you really have to choose. It kind of subsumes free XOR. So that's all I have to say. I'll just summarize our work. So I described a new way to garble XOR gates that results in a cost of zero one or two ciphertext per gate. And there's a way to instantiate our scheme that avoids this troublesome harness assumption of free XOR. And there's another way to instantiate our scheme that often gives smaller garbled circuits than free XOR. So with that, I'll conclude my talk and thanks for your attention.


Meeting of GOL to order, seeing that we have a quorum. It is about, it is 1033 according to my watch, it's July 15th. This is a meeting of governance, organization and legislation. The committee of the town council, we are meeting virtually pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. This meeting of GOL is being conducted via remote participation. Hopefully most of you can access the packet. And so you have a copy of the agenda in front of you. I'm gonna go over just for a moment. We have one item unanticipated by the chair, I'm underlined by the chair that we'll be dealing with a little bit later in the meeting relevant to town manager evaluation. And that is in the packet. I put it in there yesterday. So other than that, you can see the items. I'd like to begin with a post-mortem review, just a quick and maybe of none of you have any thoughts. We've just gone through a process of recommending, making a recommendation to the council. It's our first time through, we've I think done it pretty thoroughly, but I wondered if there are any thoughts or comments. I had one quick thing I wanted to mention. One of the candidates, as I think you know, I sent you an email has withdrawn and she's expressed to me on a private email that she would like not to have her name mentioned during the discussion. So when it's pointed out or someone brings up the point that I thought there were four candidates, she's asked that as a courtesy and we could only do so much, but we not name her by name. We simply say that one of the candidates has withdrawn. So that is just a personal request. George, could you just quickly confirm everyone can hear and be heard for the record? That's true. So let's just quickly do that. Lynn Greesimer, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, Mandy Joe, can you hear me? Yes. Pat, can you hear me? Yes. And Andy, can you hear me? Yes. Thank you. All right, so we are all connected in hearing and seeing. So item two is this second item. Any thoughts on this at all about either the interview process, how it went, whether people felt it was, I mean, we only had four interviews, which I think was a blessing. Format, timing, anything, any thoughts about the interview process? Would you like to change it? I thought it was a good process. I didn't realize how difficult it would be to make the decision. And I don't know whether that would be true every time, but I have a feeling it probably would. And I was, but I thought asking individual questions seemed to flow well. I like the process. I agree with Pat. Okay. The only thing I would add is that I spoke with one member of the council who attended the meeting was obviously not a panelist and made the comment to me that it was best interview process for committee position seen yet that some of the planning board once initially, which was of course earlier in the process, just were not as free flowing and is open and is really productive is this one. This is the best process that that councilor had seen. I also want to thank George for doing the enormous amount of touching base with the candidates from the beginning to the end. And that is, I think that speaks so well on behalf of the council and it creates such a much more positive environment for all candidates when they've been, if you will, have been taught when you've touched base with them and really cared about them. I think that makes so much difference. Thank you, Lynn. I think your right is important. And I think it's also been true of other processes that we've followed, but extremely important. It means a lot to people. In this case, though, I had to tell everyone that we really have no idea what's gonna happen in 2020, so they should tune in. But yes, I think that personal element is important. Luckily, I only had four. Evan dealt with many, many, many more. So it makes it easier when it's four instead of 14. And I like the real questions we asked. The fact that we all then kind of settled into our question was fine, but it allowed us to see their spontaneity. Yeah. I think this is really partly aside, but with planning board and zoning, the interview process was a compromise. And I think they're just divisions, probably within the council, certainly there were divisions on the committee. And so I don't think anyone is particularly happy with the sort of rigid nature of the interview process. I think most of us became accepting of the public nature of it. I did, I came around to that, but I just think that there's just, well, these are, those two positions are highly political. And I think the sort of structured and somewhat artificial nature of the interview process reflects that. I think with finance, we've been perhaps blessed by the fact that it doesn't seem to have quite that quality. So, yeah. The buck has now passed the mandatory job. Exactly. I do that. I mean, because they can change it. That's their property. It's adopted a process and the report will be on Monday's report. Monday's package. I look forward to reading it. We have any other thoughts? So we were happy with the process and we have a written document that hopefully will be, I believe it is in the right place, but I'll make sure for future chairs and for future iterations of this committee as to how we think it should go. Obviously they can change it, but okay. We have a zoning amendment bylaw 11.250. It's in your packet. And I think this is something that is on the agenda for upcoming and it was on my to-do list. So I think we need to look at it briefly. And then I would like actually to follow with a brief discussion, just really slightly out of order of our process for reviewing bylaws. So number five is actually gonna come right after number three, but can we start with number three? And if it's possible to get that up on the screen, Lynn, for us to look at that. I'm trying to find it. I'll fill it up. Mandy, okay, thank you. I mean, I've looked at it recently. Now I can't find it. Yeah, it's there. Okay, that's great. Mandy, thank you. Can I introduce this, George? I'm sorry, Mandy. Can I introduce this? Please would you? Yes. Okay, so this is the, on voting, voting for site plan reviews. The actual text is in here. That text has been voted for one in CRC in support. To recommend it and the changes. And five two in the planning board, it has been to an attorney. That's the one thing I wanted to say, that this actual document came from Joel Bard, the planning, you know, the land use sort of attorney at KP law. When both planning board and CRC voted, we only voted that language. We did not vote this document. I just wanted to put that out there. We voted to recommend modifying, you know, revising the bylaw to add the words of majority and to delete the words at least two thirds, but not fewer than five. So that was the motion that we voted. I think it's up to this committee to decide whether we want all the, whereas is or not essentially this whole thing, or whether all we want is the, to amend the zoning bylaw part. I know that's been a discussion in the past at GLL. Okay. I only, right, it needs to be July at the bottom, July, 2020. Yeah. So the one thing you need to include in the order is a verb of some sort, because you have to make sure we're ordering it. So when you knock out the now, therefore be it ordered by, I don't think you want to say exactly that, but it needs to at least, it is ordered by the council for the ton of Amherst that, that much needs to think still be there. So I would propose to eliminate the three whereas lines and to change that last piece, so that it just says ordered by the town council that. Like that? Yeah, you could knock out, what about it is ordered instead of be it ordered? And then the motion for Athena's sake would be essentially either to adopt this order or just to amend zoning bylaw article 11. We do with finance, we just adopt the orders, right? Go back and see if I can quickly find an order from the finance committee and my... If I can interject, we do just adopt the orders and finance, but in the past for zoning bylaw changes, we've voted to amend. That's fine, right. And so I'm wondering why... If you're just doing an order of appropriation, it's pretty straightforward. Right. This is amending. Can I ask, when we did the vote to amend in the past, did you have to create an order or somehow, what did you do to document that vote? Is it just in the motion sheet? Oh, the larger things that the council votes on, I create orders, but it's mainly just for our records. And if somebody ever wanted to see a record of the orders that the council's voted, but the vote and the change was sent to the planning department so they could make that change in the zoning bylaw and repost it online and print copies if people wanted to buy copies. So we wouldn't really need an order for this, prepare it in this way. We would just need the vote and then the zoning bylaw changes. Has this been presented to us as an order because the attorney looked at it? I'm puzzled why it's in this form. It was presented as an order because Chris Brestrup asked the attorney, the language they had and what she was used to is a town meeting warrant article. And so she went to the attorney and said, what wouldn't be needed for council instead of a town warrant? And this is what he came back with an order. So that's why it's presented like this. It was a question of what do we have to do? We haven't really done these before as it relates to not being a town meeting warrant. So does that mean that when we get wage theft, it's gonna come back like this too? Oh, good question. Well, I guess that's what I mean. The only thing that would not be an emotion on the motion sheet is this part right here. Because I think the motion would be to amend the zoning, you know, instead of the town, it would say to amend the zoning bylaw article 11, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, by deleting and as follows and then you read it and then the certification, you know, this would be the motion. And then I think it works for magic. Right. So if we wanna go the order route, I think we should do it for all the bylaws, but it would just say it is ordered that the town amend, you know, and then the motion on the motion sheet, I guess would be to adopt order number, whatever. Just otherwise you'd be doing just a motion. I moved to amend the zoning bylaw article 11 and then through us to just motion. Right. George, if I may. Please. So when we don't, when the council doesn't vote something in this format and we need an order prepared like this, I prepare the language on the bottom that says I certify at the regular meeting of the town council so on and so forth. So I would add that to a council vote, whether or not you voted it. Does that make sense? I thought we were trying to get away from the where as is. I think we are. The question is, do we keep the order format or not? Right. And we have only been using it for finance. So I don't see any reason to change that unless there's a legal or if Athena for this, it would make things clear or easier. We just amend. And then she includes this language. I think I'm still a little unclear. I hereby certify that that language is. All right. That certification portion doesn't, it doesn't go in the motion. It would go if somebody wanted a copy of the order that the council voted, if they wanted a copy, a certified copy of the vote, then I would, then I would prepare something like this. You know, I, I really do prefer that we just keep orders to financial. I was going to go the other way. These are bylaws and which are just as major as financial. I mean, maybe we don't say, maybe, maybe we don't call it a financial order. Maybe we call it a bylaw order or something. All the, all the council votes, all the major council votes get orders whether we vote them in this format or not. And I would consider bylaws major council votes. Right. So, yeah, go ahead. So, so I have a database of all the council votes and orders prepared, whether or not we ever need them or use them. They're created for major votes like this, whether they're voted in this format or not. What would you need to present to the public? If somebody asked for it? When the council votes something, the vote would be to amend the zoning bylaw, so on and so forth. So whenever something like that is voted, it goes into my database and I create orders for it. And do you give it? So all I need is the council motion and vote. Okay. Do you then number all of the orders? Right. As FY, this would be FY 21. Ash. Right. And they get the next number in the sequence that we voted orders. Well, I mean, if that's what you need, then I'd leave it as an order and just we're gonna have to explain why all of a sudden these are coming through as orders. It seems to me though that if she's been handling it and Athena has been handling it the way she has and it works and it meets requirements, why do we need to change it? Why do we need to say an order? It is ordered. Good point. I don't see the need. So I guess we as GOL could present just this portion as I will. Joe's been having so much trouble with her connectivity. Mandy has, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she needs to get out of town hall. That building is jinxed, that building is jinxed. She probably has to go.  So I think what she was suggesting was we just presented as a motion and then afterwards as Pat's suggesting, Athena creates them as orders. Right, I mean, it's worked so far. Why change it? Right. I tend to sympathize or agree with Pat unless there's a reason for Athena's point of view. Look, we lost her all together. Yeah, she's a screen maven at the moment. I know. I don't think we need to keep looking at it right now. Well, the only thing that is still out there and just so we understand is that two people on the planning board did vote no. And one of them at least is going to speak. So in the agenda on Monday, I'm probably going to move this early in the agenda so that they can just speak during public comment. I don't know yet because we were trying to figure out how to handle all the public comment we're going to get on Monday anyway. Right. And whether or not, you know, I've been avoiding doing public comment at the time of certain votes and issues, but we may, I may go back to doing a little bit more of associating comment with the issues. And then that way is I just haven't figured it out. The agenda looks short, but in fact it could take us through that agenda.  She's trying to, I simply need emotion. And I move that we recommend this to the council. Well, we declare it. I think that motion then would be that we declare the zoning bylaw 11.250, the amendment to the zoning bylaw, that the language to be clear, consistent, and actionable. And actionable. Yeah. I'm so move. Second. And we have a second. And so I think we should give Mandy a chance to get back on for the vote. I am on. You're calling in. We have a caller. This is our first caller. I should be in, oh gosh, I can't understand her. Right. She's muted at the moment. This is how our problems started too. Mandy, Joe and I just discussed it yesterday. We had it upgrade our box from Comcast. Here we go. Okay. So I thought I was in twice. So I'm on the phone and I'm in theory also on my computer right now. I'm going to keep the phone connection alive though. There's a computer in the whole house. Every single one of us lost our connection. So something's going on. We're all trying to videoconference. While you were away, Mandy. I heard a motion. We had a motion to declare the language of this zoning amendment to be clear, consistent, actionable and anti-seconded it. And so that's where we're at at the moment. Any further thoughts, discussion? We seem to have come perhaps not quite appropriately to a consensus that we're going to not treat these as orders but treat them as we have them in the past. I think you were somewhat on the fence there. I don't know if that's acceptable to you but that's at the moment where we're at what do you think of it as an amendment? That's fine. Okay. And then Athena then creates them into orders after one. She does what she's been doing quietly and efficiently all the time. So we're up to a vote? Yeah, we're ready for a vote. So we've had the motion seconded and discussion. So I'm going to begin with Pat Ianis. Yes. Okay. And Lynn Grissimer? Yes. Okay. And Mandy Johanke? Yes. The chair is a yes, Andy Steinberg? Yes. So this vote is unanimous five zero to declare the language of zoning amendment. The amendment is zoning 11.250 consistent and actionable. It's out of order, but I thought that actually if I had been thinking, I wanted to follow up just very briefly with your thoughts on how we should as a committee be dealing with these sorts of bylaw requests and reviews. And I apologize for the background noise. I need to communicate to my better half that she needs to stop using our printer. So you may hear some yelling in a minute, but when we're dealing with bylaws, and this example we just had doesn't fit this process, but I would expect that you have the noise in the background. Anybody? It's an echo. Oh, it's an echo, it's me. Oh, great. No, I think it's me and I'm trying to figure it out without having to disconnect my phone. Mandy, if you have your speakers on your computer turned up, you might want to turn those down. Sometimes it picks up your phone. I muted them already. Oh, okay. I muted them already. I'm trying. All right. I do have to warn you that I probably need to leave at 11.30 because of all of the finance stuff that's going on. Yeah, I'm sort of out of control at this point but I'm not sure if it's me out of control or... That's putting it mildly. You're out of control or the finance is out of control. A little of both actually, but... All right. So we'll try to move as quickly as we can and maybe this is not the appropriate time for it, but as chair, when I have these bylaws, I would like some, I'd actually like to write it down at some point. I think Mandy's handled this in the past quite well, but I think I need just some written guidance as to what you need. You need a clean copy. You need a red line version. And in case, at least in a recent event, you needed the original copy, which you didn't have. You needed to see what the original was. You need to see what the changes were and you need to see the red line version. So those three should always be available to you. Now in this case, you saw the original version and the edits, so it's pretty simple. So I think probably that one would be all right. So beyond that, what else do you need? For instance, I put in the packet, I think it's article one of the zoning of the bylaws, the general bylaw actually, that just describes the sort of language and the formats that appropriate, which is what our purview is. We do clear, consistent, actionable, that's it. So maybe that should always be available or maybe it should be something everyone has handy. And then finally, attorney review. And finally, what, George? Attorney review, what, you know, this is always a question in my mind. Usually we look at something and then it gets since the attorney and then it goes back to the council, really. Shouldn't it come back to us? Well, I don't wanna see it again, but maybe, so these are some, what the committee wants to have in its packet when we're doing bylaws. And the complexity of the bylaw because in most situations, I think it's fairly straightforward. And just the red line version is probably all you need is a fairly simple thing, but the more complex it is, the more that we need to understand what it is that the movers of the motion or the committee that has dealt with it on a substantive side is seeking to accomplish and whether we independently then read the bylaw and conclude that the proposed language does what they intend because it's not whether we intend that we're looking at whether it's clear system and actionable in the clear, the clarity part. We need to know what it is that they're seeking to achieve and doesn't do it. And so Andy's kind of speaking to my issue. I mean, what happened in the process of this thing starting to it finally coming back to the council is we've lost, why are we doing this? Now, in this case, I happen to know why we're doing it, but other counselors may not remember why we're doing this. So, and basically what happens then at the council meeting, I call upon the two different committees, in this case, CRC and GLL and I say, please give us your recommendation. And hopefully either in your report or somewhere will be a reason stated and written down as why we're even doing this. So I just want to make sure that we have either attached a memo to the bylaw when we file it or we have it in a report that can be attached to the bylaw when we file it. That gives history as to why we changed this. That could be in the chair's report or could also be something that is brought up orally in the discussion, but it's important, yes. It needs to be written on the record somewhere. It could be in the record, not just stated at the public meeting, right? Okay. What about attorney review? Maybe there's not the time for this discussion, but it's in my mind, it's just completely unclear where it fits in. This one came to us from the attorney, but normally that's not the case. Normally we see it and then it gets sent to Paul. Are you saying should it come back to us after attorney review? Well, I mean, yeah, that's a question. I know in previous cases, I know Evan brought up a case where it went to the attorney. The attorney made all kinds of changes. And when it came back, they had all kinds of questions about the changes the attorney had made. And so, if it goes directly to the attorney, you don't get answers to. Yeah, yeah. So that just adds more time. It makes things take even longer. So imagine, waitstaff bylaw, the attorney looks at it and then it comes back to us again. That seems like a problem. I think we're the ones that have to decide whether we're gonna accept the attorney changes or not. I think we did that with, which one was it, Pat, percent for art? Yes, that's right. That's right. And most of them we accepted, but some, we might have even accepted all of them, but I think having a committee review the changes to be able to discuss them would be helpful. Yeah, because it's not clear or always clear to me that what the attorney is saying is necessarily gonna be a change that we make or that we need to make. And that's kind of an interesting navigation. I think it has to always come back to us before it goes to the council. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, that's right. And that's what I'm worried about and or that's my question because that adds even more time. So take away, Steph, we've already, it's been going on for quite some time. My understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, is it still being reviewed by the attorney? I don't think we've gotten it back. Nope. That's my understanding. And if it does come back, I mean, whenever it comes back, it should then be on our agenda again. Right. And the sponsors are gonna need to take a careful look at it because they may have been changed. Well, since we're both on the committee and we can get Kathy involved. Right. We've been doing it in preparation for this meeting. I just want to make sure that they don't change the intent of something like they did that one time. Yeah, with Percentra, we just had Bill Cazan at the meeting that we reviewed the attorney changes. Okay. So it does sound like a consensus from the committee that even though it adds time to the process that we would expect that any attorney review that results in changes. I mean, it comes back with no changes or it comes back with, you know, the governor, right?  No. Well, that's what I'd like, but somebody has to look at it to say, oh, that's just Scrivener changes or that's just, you know, that's immaterial and who's going to do that? I mean, it's going to be his committee, right? I think it has to come back because we haven't, if we're sending to an attorney, we haven't voted clear for that ability. So whether or not they come back with changes, we'd still need to make that vote. Right. Okay. All right. Andy has 20 minutes. I think we need to make a decision in terms of the agenda. I wanted to touch base with how you're doing on bylaws for future consideration. I already gave Lynn a pass. I think Andy's, I mean, all of you have your hands full right now. So I have no problem with just, you know, postponing this, I have my three items. I haven't acted on them. For instance, the HR director is going to change. So I don't see any point in sending something to the HR director in the last couple of days or weeks of her tenure and that deal with the town manager. I mean, in other words, my three items, I know what I need to do. And that may be true for all of you. It may be the case that you just haven't had a chance to even think about it. That's fine. If you have something that you want to, well, I'm just asking, anybody have anything they want to tell me about their future considerations assignment? As an answer, maybe you don't want to. Move it to the back burner. Fine, okay. It just doesn't... Not pressing. I understand, absolutely. Okay.  I will keep it, I will keep it on. I will have it in my back of my tiny brain. Okay, all right. I want to move to items unanticipated. Rethesis by the chair. We have the town manager, we need to review the town manager evaluation and make a recommendation to the council. That is in the packet. I put it in at the last minute. And we need to decide how we want to proceed on this. Do we want to begin to go through it section by section, line by line? Do we want to simply acknowledge that it's something we need to deal with and give everyone a chance to ponder it and come back to it one more time before it goes to the council? Do we want to have a special meeting? Focus just on this. These are just, I'm not pro or con here. I'm just throwing out some options. We can start with that. I think I'm the only person here who was involved in putting this together last time. Pat, were you on the committee? No. You weren't, okay. First of all, this was the result of a very long drawn out process of an ad hoc committee of about five people. And during the process, we met with Paul two or three times and he weighed in on the goals. And so at some point, if we're going to devote a meeting to this, I think it would be to also include Paul to talk with us about where he sees these goals. The other thing is clearly there needs to be a goal either under community outreach or separate around racism, et cetera. And that needs to be carefully written. I'm sure somebody like Pat or would be better able to write how that might, but the other piece I'm just gonna say, these didn't get passed until last January. Then we went into COVID. It took us six months to get here. And I hope we can just look at these goals and tweak them for this coming year instead of getting into an unbelievably extensive process. But I do think we need to sit with Paul. So, here's. Any thoughts? Danny? Yeah, I mean, having gone through this every year on the select board that I was on the select board, we did generally work with the goals from the prior year, but you have to give some thought to what are the exceptional requirements that you expect to be coming up in the next year? And are there ones that particularly need focus and are you going to do any variation as a result and if you've learned anything new? Let's face it, if the council were to vote to cut the police budget by 52%, I imagine that that would be a huge portion of town manager's responsibility is to how we're actually going to provide public safety in the town of Amherst and negotiating with all of the various parties that would have to take place in order to do that. And it would just, I think that we consume a large part of this time and you have to adjust the goals so that recognizing that a person's time is limited to what they can accomplish in the amount of available hours. You just skewed in a one direction something. And having mentioned the whole issue of policing and racism, I also want to mention that somewhere in here we do need to recognize the continuation of COVID and the managing of the town through the pandemic because it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when. Yeah. But it's many, I'm sorry. My last comment actually made me think of something else on the prior subject we were discussing on the agenda which is the bylaws. I just want to point out that the whole question of what our bylaws are and what can be enforced if we don't have a police department operating in the town of Amherst on a 24-hour basis is something that we need to consider as we look at bylaws. Just leave and get there. If we get there, we don't know. Andy. So I think we need to have the manager in at the August 3rd meeting. And yeah, I've been looking at them. There's some that need modified because of what was accomplished this year. And so they need rewritten to reflect that accomplishment and moving forward on stuff. I do think given COVID and it'd be interesting to see how much COVID, time COVID is still taking of the manager's day essentially. I know it was a huge part of it back in March and April and it slowed down a little bit, but my guess is it's still a large part of the week. We might need to, despite, we might need to triage the goals to figure out which ones aren't going to get done this year and how much he can get done and how much aren't going to get done and which ones are the least important of the goals that we have to drop. Okay. We need to input. Andy. Because we need to input. Yeah, we do. Yeah. We could come to the August 3rd meeting with our own thoughts having reviewed the goals with potentially our own drafts of new COVID and racism goals and then talk to him and try and come out with something for the 12th for the council. I like that idea. And while I appreciate Lynn's trust in me, I think that if we're each responding to racism, we'll come up with better guidelines than just one person because I really believe in that collaborative process. And the feeling is from the group that devoting our next meeting as opposed to a special meeting is fine. In other words, in two weeks time, I would invite Paul to be present at 1030 during our regular meeting. And what I wouldn't tell him that the focus of the only agenda item, hopefully, we know that sometimes we do get things thrown at us, but I think hopefully we could make it the only agenda item. We'll be discussing the town manager goals. And that would be a full two hour. I mean, we'll take as much time as we need but we have two hours to hear from him. I think that is extremely valuable. And also people would have a chance to think about what they would like to change. And we'd also, I think triage is a good point given the situation, but not a special meeting. So just need your nods or approvals. I am holding back my approval temporarily because if some by some miracle, the wage step bylaws were back from the- Right, I understand. The law. I would not like to miss the 29th to have a time to discuss them. Or, you know, so I'm not ready to say it's all false. Maybe we schedule it for instead of the third, we schedule it for the week before because I think we've got three weeks between meetings now. We do. We do? Oh, wait, I'm off then. When's the, when are- Well, you have the 22nd and you have the 29th. I will not be on the 22nd. Well, we don't have anything scheduled till August 3rd, right, George? August 5th is what my calendar is. Oh my God. Okay, August 5th is a GOL meeting. Yes, that's the next one. And you're saying the 22nd is? No. Of July. No, we have nothing scheduled but I won't be on the 22nd. August 5th. And my question is whether, given all the other things going on and given the demands on people's time that you want to wait until August 5th to invite the town manager and have this discussion, we need to present a final draft, I assume, on what? What is the deadline? The 12th? Is the council meeting? It's a Wednesday. So it's in the packet for the next council meeting. Which is the 12th, is that right? The 12th is a Wednesday, so the next one is the 17th, but the Wednesday is the council meeting. Right. So again, just, I'm sorry, I'm just dense today. The council meeting would be what date? The 17th. 17th. 17th. By the 17th, we've agreed to present it to the council. Right. And I'm sure that we're all wanted by the 17th, right? The list of goals. And, right. Timeline says we give it to the council on the 12th. And it gets discussed on the 17th. So I guess another option is, I don't like this one though. The third and the 12th, we hold meetings. And if wage theft comes in, we do it first on the third, but I don't like that one versus the 29th and the third. I think I'd rather do the 29th and the third. And the 29th would be the meeting with Paul and focus on town manager goals or just have a regular meeting and deal with whatever's on the, I mean, I think we really need to decide when we want to sit down with Paul and tell him this is the date and that's when we're going to do it. And the third gives us enough time and we can do it on the third. We should do it on the 29th because I'm just warning you now, it's not an easy process. If we do it the 29th, we can devote the whole meeting to goals. Right. Extra meeting, which is not always a fan of, but then the fifth, if we, for some reason finish the goals on the 29th and wage theft is not backed by the fifth, we could potentially consider canceling the meeting on the fifth. And if wage theft is back, we can at least get wage theft in so that it can be on. It wouldn't be on the town council agenda until August 17th. Right. At the earliest, August 7th. We missed the August 3rd agenda because we don't have it back from the attorney. Right. It can't be done there. It's taken a whole year and we still don't have it on the agenda. So it's a little early. August 17th is only the town manager evaluation. The whole meeting. The 29th. So then I'm more in favor of the 29th. And if we can push Paul to get wage theft back before the 29th, we could at least review, we could split that meeting and still do the 29th and the fifth for goals and get wage theft on the 29th to be able to put it on the 3rd of August still. Yeah. We need to. Is he delaying it or it is just. We need to push him to push the attorney. Okay. All right. Well, the chair can certainly in his communication with Paul, allure him. Again, I have to make sure he can make that meeting. I'm sure he would do everything he could, but there might be something that, but yes, I would tell him this is what we're planning. A meeting on the 29th, exclusively devoted to the town manager goals and then in another sentence. And could you please try to push the attorney to get the wage theft bylaw back to us by the 29th? That's our hope. Yes. I heard what Mandy was saying differently, but go ahead. So here's my new thinking because we can't, if we miss the August 3rd meeting for wage theft, we can't put wage theft on until August 24th. So it's three extra weeks. So my new thinking is, if we can get the attorney to get us back, the wage theft edits by July 29th, we could split that meeting 30 to 45 minutes on wage theft if it even needs that much. And the rest would be goals. And then the third could finish up goals. And that would allow us to put wage theft on the August 3rd meeting if we can get the stuff back from the attorney by the 29th. Again, in my communication with Paul, I would be telling him that we are planning to discuss time manager goals on the 29th and very likely on the 3rd. Yes, on the 5th. We'd like him to be present ideally at both meetings. And I would certainly tell him if we had a meeting which was split, I would tell him when we expect that he wouldn't be needed. Obviously it's a courtesy. But so tell him 29th and 3rd, 1030. On the 12th. No, no. Yes, 5th. 5th, the 5th. Keep making that mistake. 29th and 5th. And again, re-emphasize the desire to get the wage theft by law back if at all possible by the 29th or before the 29th. Okay, is that, Mandy is that? And the goal then is to have wage theft if at all possible on the August 3rd agenda. Yeah, yeah. Got it. Our first reading. Okay. All right. What else do we need to get done before Andy? I'm just looking to see. He's into a fiscal nightmare. I mean, I think what really means we have a set of minutes that if he's had a chance to look at, he might want to weigh in on, but he may not. The remaining items are discussion items. And I'm not sure. Just one last thought. When we do meet to discuss time manager goals, the homework for us, just to reinforce for myself is to have looked at these and have some, right? Okay. And that will happen on the 29th. We have Lynn's demo on the long-term, how dealing with long-term or permanent change in the public way. GOL is supposed to look at that. CRC is, I'm sorry. TSO is supposed to look at it as well. We have the flag policy. And then we have minutes. One at least vote on the minutes. And I only have these minutes. I do not have the minutes of the 24th or of the first. So I don't know where those are at the moment. I've had not a chance to reach out. I've gotten, the most recent is the minutes of, I believe the 17th. Is that right? And I don't know if people had a chance to look at them. I've looked at them. I think they're fine. But, anyone, I'll take a motion. I move that we accept the minutes of the, whatever date that. June 17th. June 17th. I second. Okay. Again, roll call I guess is necessary. So this time we'll start with Lynn. Yes. And Mandy. You're muted, Mandy. Getting there. Yes. The chair is a yes, Andy. Yes. And Pat. Yes. All right. So the minutes of June 17 are approved unanimously. I will see what I can do about the other two minutes. We had a special meeting and we have July one. So, thoughts about the discussion items. Do you want to deal with them today? Have people had a chance to think about them? The whole issue of long, these are thorny ones, long-term, permanent changes, thoughts on this. Maybe we should let TSO chew on it for a while and see where they get. Yeah. I just wrote myself a note. I think I need to do something next for TSO to look at this. They came to no conclusion last time. No, no. We're still struggling with our process, unfortunately. And we've taken a long vacation, unfortunately. But we'll be back at it soon. Flag policy, the only reason I put it in here is because we got a request from someone about using the flagpole. And it struck me as we really don't have a consistent policy, but maybe there's no way of getting one. There is a memo, not a memo, but well, let's call it that, that I did a number of months ago that describes to my understanding what the policy is, such as it is. And again, maybe this is something that people want to look at and think about before we have a discussion. So that's what's left on the agenda are a number of discussion items. So. And let me just say, in receiving the initial request for the Indian flagpole, you can't remember whether it came to the whole council to begin with or I sent it off to the council, but we had one counselor just be extremely clear that they could not enforce that at all. And it was you and Shalini, I think there might have been two. Very. That particular, right. Okay. That particular one. And I urge that we do come back to this, whether we try to wrestle with it today because it won't be the last time we get one of these requests. I think Pat and George can correct me. When we were discussing this in GL before, one of the things we discussed was that any flying of a flag beyond, if you're looking at the flag policy, the first part, the non commemorative part, be required to be part of a resolution of some sort, the council adopts. We never got that far to coming up with something like that, but that we did notice that for Black History Month and Tibetan Dependence and LGBTQ and Puerto Rican Heritage Day at least, they were always part of a resolution that the council adopts. The Japanese flag has been flown occasionally for visiting dignitaries. I don't think we've ever adopted a resolution, but that was one of the things we discussed was for any non-U.S. U.N. and Massachusetts flags that it be a council resolution that indicates with reasons why. And with a Japanese flag that may have been flying because of our sister cities. Yeah, no, I mean, that was the visiting dignitaries and all that makes total sense, right? So that suggests to me, at least the beginnings of the shaping of a policy, not that we're gonna do it today, but that any kind of flag requests like this that's not commemorative would require a resolution. And also that would then I see also require a sponsor. So there have to be at least one counselor sponsoring it and a resolution presented to the council and then attached to that would be, and so that may be a simple way to put into writing what, so say someone approaches Lynn with this kind of request, future whoever the president of the council will be would say, well, here's the policy, you need to get a resolution and to get that you need a sponsor. And I can tell you two people right away, you shouldn't approach. The reason I like that idea is because we could say, well, no, let's just say that we'll only fly it if the town council votes to fly it. But in order to come to the town council to vote to fly it, you have to have a reason. And that's what resolution does. It gives you a rationale. Right, exactly. Now it allows us to say something to the public. So combination of those two, I think is critical. I can certainly draft something very brief along those lines for some future consideration. There's no rush here, but I would put something like that together to give us something to look at. And then maybe we could actually make a decision and that would provide a policy that would guide you and future presidents when these things come up. Okay, good. I think item six, TSO, we're gonna let them, I mean, I'm open to people's thoughts on this. I've obviously spent far too many hours pondering it and haven't really come up with much of any use. So maybe we should let TSO try it. I mean, I'm on that committee as well, so. I would suggest we try to do that because ultimately our job is not to decide how to do it, but then figure out how to write it into our goals or our rules of decision. I just wanna add the word recommend how to do it to TSO's decision. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think I would normally be more protective of GOL's role in setting policies or in recommending the policies as Pat says to the council, but the prior GOL committee struggled with this particular one for how many meetings? I mean, and we got absolutely nowhere and the council didn't like anything we came up with. So I think leaving it to the committee that's going to have to deal with it to try and struggle and figure out what they want before. And then maybe we try and incorporate that into some sort of language. I'm perfectly happy allowing that to happen. And let me just say, I don't write, we've already said, every couple of months, two months or so, we wanna know what's coming up that might be public way because of constructions and new buildings and stuff like that. So we've already put in some additional guidance for the town manager by what we've talked about in the council meetings. I'm perfectly happy leaving it with GOL besides the fact that they have Lincoln Avenue on their agenda. Right, right, good. And have not jumped forward to deal with it. Good, well, this opens up the very tantalizing possibility that we could move to adjourn. I'm sorry? Public comment. Public comment, yes. How could I have forgotten? I'm taking a look. There are no public. I see the attendees at zero today. And zero has nothing to say. So we have a period of public comment, but there's no public present. So we will not have public comment. We've adopted the minutes of June 17. I'd like to let Andy go. My future, Lynn, please. I'd like to make a motion to yield this additional hour to the finance committee. Absolutely. Some funds too for R&R or whatever, mental health, whatever. So on our agenda coming up, future items, we're looking at inviting Paul and hopefully dealing with wage theft. I will communicate with him and tell him about our desire to see him on both those dates, if possible, but the 29th for sure. And also remind him or ask him to try to push the wage theft along if at all possible. Demand. I will work on the lag thing in my free time. And, uh, and I'm going to start working on meditation some more because it's going to be a rough couple of weeks. I think. Sending me, sending me things. I'll have to send you. I need some. I've really been appreciating it. Well, it's, it, you should, my daughters are ready to sound. I've been fulminating and raging and, you know, it's just not good. We have to let it just, you know, people are going to say what they're going to say. Is he sending you things to help you meditate and concentrate? There's no the mantras, you know. My favorite one is all views are wrong views. That's my favorite. You lost my email. I'm sorry. My email. You didn't send me any of these. Well, I may have lost my email. You didn't send me any of these. Well, I'm okay. I could have a listserv and send everyone a little daily mantra. Um, hasn't been helping me much lately. So I really have to do some work on it. No, it's tricky. Uh, I agree. Um, How do I sign up for this? Sorry, George. What have I created? Um, Putting all of us in the minutes. I'm sorry. Putting this in the minutes. I think we need this colony mindfulness. Session. I don't have my thing. I don't want to get into competition with the professionals, but, um, Little things I try to use that I need to use more. Um, but we're going to have to, I mean, other thing versus, this is not relevant, but there's a, a, uh, petition. It was in the paper yesterday, right? 500 signatures. Uh, from citizens in our town. That's what I read. Did anyone. I think. Is that the university to close? They don't want the university reopen. Oh. No one saw that. Men. I saw the article, but yes, it's addressed to the university. Yeah. I don't know. Is that on online? But it's 500. They said it had 500 signatures. That's 500. Have they come to the town clerk to get the petition stuff? No, it's one of those things. Right. It's kind of the one. It's an online, you know, one of those like online petitions. I don't know what the website is, but. Well, I'd like to see it. It's in the Gazette today. Was in yesterday's Gazette. I don't know. I don't know. It was featured article. I've got it downstairs. And it just caught my eye. The names didn't ring any bells. I didn't recognize the people, but they were named. And they claim they have 500 signatures. And these are residents of Amherst. I assume they're all residents of Amherst. What does that trigger the 500 signatures? Nothing. It's just, it's an expression of. Of concerns and expression of, you know, and from our perspective, it just gives you a sense of a degree of anxiety. In the community. Yes. And we need to be really. Sensitive to that. I'm also afraid that we can become so focused on this other issue. That we're going to lose sight of the really important one, which truly does raise public health. Issues in a very fundamental way. Well, one of the reasons that I decided to go ahead and add the carryover meeting on the 21st, Pat, I'm so sorry for you. Is because our agenda on Monday includes the budget. This discussion about UMass. And other.  Elections. We had it financed and everybody wanted to talk about it. Pat. Yeah. So you're saying there's an additional council meeting on the 21st. Yeah. Yeah. I would appreciate it if the vote on the budget came up. On the 20th and not on the 21st. And I'm aware you're not going to be there. The 20th and 21st. And I, I agree with you. Yeah. Thanks. For finance. Because that's a split. I'm sorry, I can't hear you, George. Yeah, we lost you. Am I still here? No. You're. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No. You're. You're fading fast. Okay. Well, maybe that's. You should move to adjourn. So I'll say my opinions for another day. Call me or. Email me. I would like to. Thank you. Thank you. Well. Adjourn. Yes. This meeting is adjourned.


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We're gonna pull the trailer brakes to make sure that the trailer brakes work and release. And also that the trailer is hooked on properly because I looked at it and it looks like it's hooked on properly.  We don't wanna go too far. We move a couple of meters ahead, meter or two. So they work, gonna release them and it didn't fall off. Those are all very good signs in the morning. My E-Log has clicked into driving which means my day has officially begun. No take backsies. And that's it. Your day has begun. I've been driving at us 16 hours.  I did a 15 minute break trip. So 15 hours and 45 minutes. This truck has to be parked. According to the laws. The laws of the land. According to the queen. She's the one that authorizes all these laws. So tomorrow morning it'll be ready probably before noon. And in the meantime, you know it never ends when it rains and pours. It's still pouring. We got to go replace our steer tires here. Came down to Fort Erie to get it done. I am going with Michelins this time because I've had nothing but bad luck. You have arrived at your destination on the left side, 1405 Commerce Parkway. I've had BF Goodriches now for the last three times and all three times I've had to replace them prematurely because they wear funny. And with alignment. King pans and everything in there. Wheel bearings been replaced. Everything's in tip top shape. These BF Goodriches tires though have just been treating me very badly. And that's what every tire guy who has taken a look at my truck and everyone who's tried to figure out what's going on with the shake. They've all said it's just cheaply made tires. Some people have good luck with BF Goodriches. Maybe I've just had bad luck three times in a row.  Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times. I'm more on. Okay, so we're switching brands. We're going to Michelin. Let's get these tire tires replaced and see how Michelin treats us. I know, I think it's the same company, isn't it? I don't probably. We'll see how this brand treats us. So the trailer is being loaded right now. We pick it up tomorrow, mid-morning or so. You know what I'm saying? We're just here at the Husky. So these bad boys are the new tires. These do better. We've got Michelin X-Line energies.  So what I've done is I've gotten these rings. What do they call it again? Cent, I'll tell you in a bit once I'm inside the truck. What they are inside the rim here, what it does is it balances your tire all the time. So as your tire wears, that adjusts in there to balance your tire so it's constantly always balanced. Since I've been having so much trouble with my tires cupping and they checked all the lug lengths, they checked everything in here, the kingpins, the bearings, everything. They checked it all and everything is fine. So who knows why these tires keep cupping. But at least we have those in there now to help out. And if they don't work, I can get my money back within five years. So they're pretty confident that they're gonna work. They're called Centromatic Wheel Balancers. Centromatic.com, this isn't an ad for them, but this is what they are. They were 250 bucks for the pair and it's supposed to help out quite a bit. The Centromatic Balancers have been shown to increase tire life on steer axles by at least 25%. On drive axles by 35 and even more on trailer axles. Oops, oops, I was gonna show you what these were. Here, let's go into products up here. And you have a five year satisfaction guarantee or your money back. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get your money back, but why is this all acting all weird here right now? As I'm trying to show you. One second. Products, come on. Here we go, products. Wheel balancers, okay. So there you can see the same thing that I have in my truck. You can see the little ring inside the wheels. They work on all kinds of different vehicles. Apparently they have really good reviews.  You can just watch my videos. I'll let you know how it goes. I mean, these last steer tires did not last very long again. They lasted what I changed them in October last year. So that means I drove January, February, March, April, six months on them, probably about a hundred thousand kilometers. I would like those tires to last about a hundred thousand miles. So a hundred thousand kilometers is probably about 60,000 miles. Unacceptable, not nearly long enough. So with these balancers, we'll see if it stops it from cupping and stops it from wearing unevenly. See if we can get longer life out of these steers. I also switched over to Michelin, Michelin. Over to Michelin. We'll see if that helps as well. I mean, if these do the same thing, I know maybe I'll try out Firestone or Goodyear. What are your favorite steer tires? I've always liked to stick between Michelin and BF Goodridge. I like Michelin the best though, but I was giving BF Goodridge a good run for it because they were cheaper and I liked the tread pattern. They were really, they worked really well in the deep snow, but man, they're all good. They're all good in the end, but Michelin I think is the best. I don't know what do you think? What do you think down below in the comment section? Let me know what's your favorite steer tire on a semi truck and how long do they usually last for you? And have you tried these wheel balancers? Questions, I have so many questions for you. I should have a whole bunch of comments, right?  When you drive someone else's truck, you don't have to worry about it breaking down. You don't even realize how expensive it is to fix these things. These tires and those, what have they called again?  That's just tires, two new tires. They were about $700 each. So that's just tires. I mean, I'm so worried about this engine it's getting older. I want it to last till the end of the year. I'd like it to last a while yet, but I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I just want to warn you guys, like if you are planning on getting into being an owner operator, just get ready for some stress in your life. I had an engine tick. My engine was ticking at one point after I got the valves adjusted and got it serviced. I had a tick in my engine. So I brought it back to Volvo and Steinbeck, right?  And they looked at it and they looked into it and figured out, you know what? It's nothing to worry about. It's mostly all in my head. They said that's perfectly normal sounds that a Volvo D13 engine makes. And it's probably wearing as well. It's getting older. So I've got to keep that in mind as well. And just keep an eye on it, right? So the professionals told me not to worry about anything. So why am I still worrying? It's like my brain just goes in circles. What's next? What's next? What's next? Okay, we fixed everything we can think of. What's going to break next? Right Volvo, come on. Please, stop. Stop already. Let me catch up a little bit. I felt like I needed to vent there for a little bit. It's just like, you get this maintenance fund saved up, right? And then suddenly that gets depleted. And you got to borrow some money to get some repairs done. And then you're like, I just want to catch up and get a little bit ahead. But let's not forget, we're truckers. This is trucking. We don't even know what it means to get ahead. That's why I always tell you guys, I do this job because I love this job, even though it stresses me out and it's turning my hair gray. My hair is actually falling out.  So I love what I do. I just, I really love what I do a lot more when everything's working smoothly. Come, I'll show you. Let's see if it's ticking now. We'll see what you say. Is it all in my head? Okay, I feel like I can always hear it when I'm at the front, right in front of the truck. Can you hear anything? That's abnormal. Can you hear that?  I'm crazy, aren't I? Please tell me I'm crazy. Let's go bump the RPMs up a little bit, okay? That RPM is that idle. Oh, you guys got a little bit of a one second there. Let me, let me clean you off there. Excuse me. Let's move the RPM up to 800, okay? Okay, a little above 800. This is usually when I hear it. This is usually when I feel like I can hear it the best, okay, let's go back to the front. She seems to be purring real nice now that I'm talking to you guys about her. Tell me if you hear a ticking sound, okay? Please tell me I'm crazy.  Every time I spend money on my truck, I just like walk circles around it, staring at it.   All of you, I need you all in your best behavior, okay? No funny business, no funny business.  As long as you run right, okay? Look at this. This is embarrassing how dirty this is. I can't believe I'm showing it, but I don't care. I don't care. We need to make sure this truck doesn't break anymore. I just need this Volvo to last long enough for me to get into a Kenworth, okay? Come on, you can do it. You can do it, girl. I believe in you. So the drivers are all sitting in their trucks looking at me talking to myself, walking around my truck, looking all stressed out. Why would I be stressed out? I'm a truck driver, we don't get stressed out. I think I might need to work the truck a little harder to get that ticking sound to start again. I always notice it after pulling a load for a while. So it comes and it goes and it comes and it goes and Volvo took a look at it and they said, no, you're good. Your truck's got 1.14 million kilometers on it. That's pretty normal. You're just gonna have to keep an eye on it and if it gets any worse and you're gonna have to bring her in and hope for the best. It might be a rocker arm then. There's a what? What did he say, 18 rocker arms in the D13? Is that right? 18 and each one's about $700 Canadian. So hopefully it would just be one that needs to be replaced. It could also be like, cause they just did an oil service, right? But Volvo did the oil service. So they should have known what oil to put in there. They didn't even ask and I didn't even tell them.  You know what to do. Service my truck please. So it's the same oil that's been in there since the beginning of life for this truck. So it's not like they put a thinner oil in that's not lubricating the valves properly, the valve train. That's the only thing I can think of is that the valve train isn't getting oiled properly. But it's got, it's full of oil. I don't lose a drop of oil between oil services. I don't add a drop of oil. It doesn't burn nothing. It doesn't lose nothing. Everything seems healthy about this truck. I've got no fault codes anymore. I think I'm just going crazy. I honestly, I think I'm just going crazy. Having an old truck is a little stressful, but you know, having a new truck would be stressful in other ways. Cause I mean, even the Kenworth I was looking at with the financial plan I had, I'm still looking at $3,500 a month, Canadian. So about $3,000 a month, American. And that's like pulling some strings here and pulling strings there and adding this and taking this away and using this and putting this down. And there's the stress of that payment then. And then you got to keep making that payment. You have to keep it. You can't park your truck then. You can't just park your truck and go home for two weeks for Christmas. No, you got to make that payment. You got to keep the wheels turning then. But you have warranty. So you don't have to worry about like having like a $20,000 a weekend when your truck breaks down. Everything's covered under warranty, but your time isn't covered under warranty. So if your truck is down for two weeks on warranty work, sure, you don't have to pay the shop for anything, but you're also down for two weeks and you need to make your truck payment. You see where the stress factor comes in?  You're going to go bald like me.   And you get to honk the air horn whenever you want. No, I won't do it now. There's people sleeping. I almost did it. Almost. It's hard to hold back. I know, but I don't want to be rude. There's people sleeping here. Tomorrow maybe. So I'm just going to get the truck all ready for night here, which means move my stuff from the back here on to, I usually put it on the driver's seat, but since diesel's not with me, I put it on the passenger seat here and get ready to just lay back and watch YouTube and get absolutely nothing done for the rest of the day. It's going to be great. I also want you guys to know when I talk about the expenses that I've had, I've had a bad first quarter, first, more than that. We're into the second quarter already and without the virus happening, it would have been bad, but with the virus, it's, it doesn't make it any easier, but we're doing okay. The reason I talk about all the expenses and tell you guys how much things cost and sort of go on and on about it is because it's not to complain, but rather to show people who may not have any connection to the trucking industry, to sort of show them the expense that we have out here on the road. Yeah, things are expensive. Yeah, we've gone through our maintenance fund and had to borrow a little bit. So yeah, I'm in a little bit of debt, just like you. I'm in debt, I'm a truck driver, of course, and we have a plan to pay it back. So it's not like we're in trouble or anything. We're doing okay, but it's not easy and it's not easy for anybody. I didn't get into this expecting it to be easy for me because I know what this is about. I grew up around this. I didn't quite know the stress it brought until I actually got into it.  Man, I knew he was a strong man, but wow, he never showed it once. He never showed how much stress there is in a job like this and owning your own truck and having it break down on the road and having to have all these massive bills. Plus, he had to feed me. Can't imagine the stress he went through as a truck driver before me. And that was before all the technologies that I enjoy today that make trucking a lot easier. So I don't tell you these things to complain.  You guys are all kinds of different kinds of people from all over the world and you have all these different careers that you've chosen to follow. There's some of you that are filthy, stinking rich and good for you. Good for you, I'm not jealous of you. I'm happy for you. I'm glad that you found success financially. And there's some of you that are struggling to get by and there's some of you doing the exact same thing that I'm doing. And I'm just showing trucking through my eyes and trucking is different for everybody. Every trucker you meet is gonna have a different story. He's gonna have a different problem he's dealing with. We all got problems though. That's the one thing we all have in common. We all got problems. So there's some people who haul refrigerated freight and that's a whole different can of worms right there that's stress you gotta deal with. A lot of people haul dry freight. That's what I did for the first six years over the road. I haul open deck freight just out on the open deck on the flatbed, on the step deck, whatever you wanna call it. There's people who haul heavy freight, heavy haul. And each person's gonna have a different story. So don't take my story as like, I'm not the spokesperson for trucking. I'm not the spokesperson for truckers. I'm the spokesperson for me. Okay, when you're watching my videos, this is just my life. There are millions of us truckers out here, each with our own unique lives. And that's what makes us all special, right? We all have our own unique lives and we're all trying to be successful. We all have our own dreams. And you know, my dreams are to own Kenworth W900 with a studio sleeper with lots of lights, lots of chrome that looks awesome. That's not my only dream in my life. That's just my dream in my career. We'll see if I reach it or not. If not, no big deal. If I do, well then, yay for me, right? But I tell you these expenses that I have to pay so that those of you who aren't in the trucking industry and have no idea what it is, these big trucks on the highway all around you, maybe you have no idea how expensive it actually is to keep these things running, to keep them on the highway.  And I changed them? Well, lately I've been changing them every six months. Really, I should only have to change them once a year. But mine have been giving me problems and that's part of the problems I'm dealing with in my trucking life. Some people have different problems with their trucks and I'm not trying to say I'm special or unique in any way, but what? I'm talking here. Who dares interrupt my rant? Oh, it's my wife.  Excuse me. Oh no, she just found, she just found a wood tick. The first tick of the season. Oh no, oh I'm gonna have to send back a very clever gift for that. She already sent this one. Oh, I can't, I can't show you. It's crazy, but yeah, so I'm gonna end the vlog here. Not much is happening today other than me just going to buy new tires and talking about how stressed out I am. But don't worry, I'm doing okay. We're doing okay. We're, yeah, we're a little behind, but we'll catch up. What trucker isn't behind, right? We're all behind, all of us. And especially now with this whole virus going around the world, everybody everywhere is behind.  So we'll get there. We're having fun though. I love my job, I love what I do and that's what's most important because if you don't love what you do, if you don't love this job, you're really gonna hate your life. So before you buy a truck, maybe drive a company truck or someone else's truck for like a full year at least. Drive in every single season. Drive in every single train. Drive through the mountains, drive over the plains and the prairies, drive through the big cities through the countryside. First figure out if you're gonna like this lifestyle and if you're gonna like this job, don't get yourself into my position and then find out you don't like your job. Okay, because I'm in my position and I actually like my job, so that makes it tolerable.  But if I really hated this job, I would be a miserable human being right now. So it's very important. If you wanna be a truck driver, first find out if it's for you. Okay, just watching my videos, it's not good enough. My life is not going to be your life.  Anyone out here in the truck stop, everyone in their own truck has their own story and each one of their lives is different.  It's gonna be different than anyone else's.   Maybe we'll share some of our challenges together, but please don't jump into this industry without knowing for sure at first. Drive someone else's truck first. But when you watch my videos, this isn't the be all end all. And remember, we're doing okay. So hope you're doing okay too. We'll all get through this, we'll get. People get knocked down. What's most important when you get knocked down, is get back up. Don't stay down. I'll see you guys tomorrow. From right here, we're gonna go pick up that steel.  I'm gonna feel pretty important to pulling that thing through traffic with all my flags and oversized signs and everything. It's gonna be pretty cool. It also has a shiny nickel attached to it. So I'm looking forward to getting that. But first I have to go pick it up and deliver it. So we'll start on that tomorrow. I'll see you right here. Don't forget to subscribe. Thanks for watching. And if you like my videos, share them with your friends. Chances are they might like them too. We're trying to get to 100,000 subscribers. That's my selfish reason right there. Help me get to 100,000. It's a big milestone. And I can't do it without you. See you tomorrow.