All right, everybody. Hello. Thank you for showing up. Let's just wait maybe a minute. Oh, no. Now it's noon. So I will start the presentation. So hello, everybody. Thank you for coming today. I'm Monica Wachee and I'll be your, like, facilitator, I guess, or your presenter, your lecturer. Let's hope this is not a lecture, right? That's so boring. If you can figure out how to use a chat, chat with me, I think I can figure out how to read it. And then we can actually have something more interesting, which is then a lecture. Oh my gosh. So today's topic, I called it SAS and Snowflake for cloud data storage, because I'm kind of in love with Snowflake. And I probably shouldn't be in love with Snowflake because what is Snowflake? They're just one company that offers cloud data storage. And why am I in love with them versus, like, Microsoft Azure or other cloud storage? Well, because they started flirting with me early. So you'll see Snowflake realized that SAS was going to have a problem. And they immediately started budding with them. And they've been doing that. I kept record of it since 2020. Okay. So that's why I'm, like, kind of in love with Snowflake. But I probably shouldn't be in love with Snowflake. Like I said, I'm just know them and I'm attached to them because they were cultivating a relationship with SAS. And I have a relationship with SAS. Love a relationship, right? But anyway, I do want to tell you that this is just mainly about cloud data storage. Try to move SAS to the cloud. And it doesn't necessarily have to be Snowflake. But the reason why I pick Snowflake is I know that they've been trying to work with SAS for a long time. So if you're going to do it, probably the most information out there is about specifically moving SAS data to Snowflake. So let's get started here. I just talked too much, probably. All right. So like I was just sort of emphasizing, today's lecture is really about, or boring lecture, you know, again, say stuff in the chat. I'll look over there. It's really about what happens if you have to move your data to the cloud.  If you use PCSAS and your data are not stored on a SAS server, then what I'm telling you about today is you probably don't have that problem. And Alex, I'll make sure you understand what the problem is. But here's the problem. If you have a SAS server and it's full, that's basically what the problem looks like, okay? So SAS made a deal with Snowflake early on as a cloud storage partner. You can use other environments. I'll get into that. SAS access, I did a lecture on that. When SAS access is a component of SAS that you can get in PCSAS or service SAS, that is an API, an application programming interface or API that allows you to connect, make an ODBC, which is an open database connection in ODBC. So remember, SAS doesn't like to play with other software, but SAS access has been around for a while. So you can open up this ODBC connection to a SQL server and pull some data in. Okay. Let's say you're not doing that. Let's say you're sitting at the SAS server. That's the server. You've got a big SAS server and it's full. Okay. What do you do? So then you can use SAS access to move data in and out of SAS, but that's not going to solve your problem. So you've got this huge headache of what are you going to do? So the question is, like, okay, my SAS server is full. What is my new solution? Like, where am I going to put all this? So other people are going to access it because I need it. And then also, how am I going to get there?  Before I go on, let me remind you that I have remind you if you haven't heard, but it's new if you haven't heard, is I'm holding a free online workshop. And it's the title of the course. There's an online course that I've already made. And the title of that course is application basis. And that course teaches people who are data scientists that didn't come through a business discipline, you know, like probably a lot of us on here who have MPHs or have master's degrees from like, or PhDs from like a health discipline, and you didn't come through a business discipline. Well, then you probably weren't taught a lot about computer applications generically, like how they're built, how they run. And if you want to connect SAS to any of them, you really have to know this. And this is becoming the bigger problem, because people collect data on their apps and what are app applications. So this is this course, the online course about application basics, I'm going to teach it as a workshop. You see, there's three sessions, Monday, August 7, Wednesday, August 9, and Friday, August 11. Each session will be two to three hours, because I don't know how many people show up. And so, and it's on Zoom, like you're doing right now. And what happens is if you, there's a link, if you go to the original event, or I'll post it on where I posted this post, you can sign up to go to the free workshop. And what do you get? You get to show up on Zoom, and I'll teach you this online course, you get the online course for free. And then after these three meetings, well, you sign up for a private wrap up session with me for 30 minutes. And that's your free workshop. So please sign up for it. I'd love to have some time with you, because there's space in the workshop for you to actually talk about stuff, like if you've got a problem like this problem, right? And then we can actually get into real problems you actually have, right? Okay, so let's get into the topic here. So why would you even, why are we even talking about Snowflake, right? And the reason why we're talking about Snowflake is because Snowflake is cloud storage. So I just want to make sure everybody kind of has a general idea of what cloud storage is like.  And why is it called a server? Well, because it serves, it's really optimized for IO, you know, oh, you need this file here, blah, blah, blah. Okay. If you take a bunch of those, and you make kind of a farm out of them, you can stripe the data over them, right? So it's not like you're one little server that's serving everybody. It's like, now everything is sort of spread out. So it's easier to serve people. Now imagine you have a bunch of server farms in different geographic locations, because we have a really fast internet. Now we can serve you locally, we can do everything, we can save millions of acres, we can steal overs, whatever. And so you're like, wow, that's what cloud is, it really is a cloud, it's just big, and it'll just keep big, and server farms or whatever. Those of you into climate change, you're probably having a heart attack about how much fossil fuel that's using, that's a different discussion. That's actually a problem, like AI is having this problem or whatever. But let's just forget about that and talk about Snowflake So snowflake cloud server is kind of set up like that. So if you actually theoretically somehow managed to move your data into snowflake and into the cloud, not just snowflake like Azure or anything, then you've solved your problem forever, right? Right. So old people who are here know that you never solve your data problem forever. You just solve it until it's a problem again, right? And so I don't know what will happen. I can't see Microsoft going out of business, but Xerox went out of business. So who knows, like if you move it to Microsoft Azure, I really hope snowflake doesn't go out of business because I'm in love with them, like I said. So who knows what will really happen if you move your data to the cloud? Like what happens if it rains from the cloud or I'm joking. But really, I don't know the future. Like what I did at the US Army when I worked at the US Army as a civilian, I ran a data lake, right? And our server got full. And I said, can we get rid of some of this crap? You know, like we had some data sets on there from before I started that we never used or anything. So I had this fireproof safe, that thing was heavy. That thing was so heavy. Good thing I was at the army, I had plenty of strong people around me, but that was a heavy safe. But what I did was I actually wrote to disk the data from my server, which was like that boxy thing I was talking about. And I put it in that fireproof safe. And I was like, that's what we're gonna do.  You know, that's what I was like, okay, this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna just throw out data we're not using, old data, blah, blah. And the reason, like that sounds really old passion, but the reason I like to think about it is like US Army, like I don't wanna have data on these people I don't need to have, especially I don't want it on my server, because if it's on my server, somebody can take it off my server, right? So maybe we should care about the privacy of these people, but that's no fun. Let's just move it all to the cloud, right? So if you're the that's no fun type, you might wanna look at this white paper. So SAS Global Forum 2020, isn't that long ago? That's like in 20, that's like three years ago, okay? So that's, but if you actually pay attention, you'll find that SAS has not been cooperating or maybe not cooperating, but partnering with cloud providers until more recently. And so Snowflake got in early. And so this person, Jeff Bailey, an insiders guide to SAS Access Interface to Snowflake, he wrote this paper.  However, the good news is that, like you could maybe look at it for generically, what you need to do, and then you could get Snowflake to help you, okay? Because Snowflake, first of all, they're just like such a cool company. They have so all these people, they're really good at it and that they'll help you. But I'm saying they'll help you. At some point, you have to design your own solutions. They'll help you implement them, but you have to design your own solutions. That's one of the messages I try to tell you. Okay, which is why I made this diagram, okay? So what's the problem with cloud storage? The main challenge with moving SAS server data to cloud storage isn't the cloud storage. So I made this diagram to kind of explain the problem. So the SAS server is usually kind of like a junk drawer. Sometimes like in the olden days, we used to have phones hooked up to the wall and then you'd have a junk drawer next to the phone.  Because if the phone rang and you wanted to write something down, you'd just go in the store and you'd find something. Or maybe you needed to open a can. You'd go in the store and find something.  Like you'd have old Taco Bell sauce and there's stuff that doesn't really belong there. Like take out stuff or whatever. So you'd have to dump the drawer out and clean it out and just kind of throw some of the stuff out. However, if your junk drawer is a SAS server, can't really just dump it out and get rid of stuff because people are really into the junk on the SAS server. Now, when I've dealt with people, back in the olden days, you'd have a lot of SAS servers like in the early 2000s, I'd be like, how'd you get that to run so fast? They'll be like, I'm on a server and I'm not rich, I have PC SAS. So anyway, but they would be like, I'd be like, why are you storing all those years of data on there? Or they'd be like, give me your whole database, give me all the tables. And I'm like, no, I'm not giving me all the tables. And I'm like, do you have room for all the tables? I'd be like, oh, I'll just throw it on the SAS server. So I started getting really curious because I never ran a SAS server. Even at the Army, I wasn't running a SAS server. I was running a file server that had SAS data sets on it that we were reading in PC SAS. So I'd never run a SAS server, but those things are lightning fast. And so I'd be like, I remember when I was at the University of South Florida, I was at an office running PC SAS and I ran a proc freak with a Fisher that was like age groups against education groups. It was like three by four and it wouldn't converge. I went down from my office, which was off campus. I went to the server or to the computer room and I just ran, right? So that's how fast these SAS servers were. And so unlike SQL servers, they wouldn't really fill up.  So people just kept putting data on SAS servers and they were terrible about it. They wouldn't make a list of what it, people would leave their jobs and then your server would be full. And you'd be like, how do we archive stuff? Like it was just not really planned very well, okay? So anybody who has a SAS server right now probably has a lot of junk on it. So the first thing I wanna tell you is now is a good time to clean house. Inventory, everything on that darn server, I mean data, I don't mean macros or anything. Well, that's another problem, but just all the data sets you have, make an inventory, open up a spreadsheet, put attributes about when was the last used or whatever, see if you can put it in the fireproof safe because that'll already make that rock on that ladder be less big, okay? So that's the first thing. The second thing is then you've got all the data sets that you use. Now there are two kinds of data. There's like data at rest, like I would have at my data lake where it's just sitting there, and people would have access with once a while. But then some of you guys have some real runtime stuff going on. So it's like, you're gonna have to get it, that rock of data up that ladder into the snowflake, like through the internet into the snowflake, into that big cloud farm, that server farm in the sky. And then you're gonna have to access it, right? Like so in my data lake land, if it were me at the army, I'd be like, oh, okay, first throw out everything we don't want, then get it up to the move all each lake and move each data set up there. But then once it's up there, I'd have to be able to pull data from it like I used to. Well, if you're running a shop where you've got Viya and you're running like AI on the fly, like you're gonna have to do AI on the fly from snowflake. So there's just a lot of complexity. So I'm sorry, I had to perseverate on that diagram, but that's why I made that diagram. It's like, okay, so you've got all this data in the SAS server, it's like a rock, you're gonna have to carry it up like a ladder, which is kind of like what it feels like, cause you just have a little pipeline on the internet to get that data all the way through onto that big, into that snowflake environment or whichever one you're at. The bottom bullet here, there are a lot of handoffs along the way. I prepared this and I've been following Snowflake for a while. I just went and did a Google search today and I'm gonna show you one thing I found that's gonna show you, whoa, there is a lot of handoffs. There are a lot of handoffs, okay? And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll explain it better. Okay, so next, what the white paper says, okay, here's our first handoff. I'm not an expert at this stuff, but what that white paper says, and remember that's from 2020, it says to get SAS into Snowflake, SAS into Snowflake, you go through Amazon web services. Okay, so you go through Amazon web services, really? So I was like, well, wait a second, why are you going through Amazon web services? And then I started to realize kind of what's going on. Okay, so SAS is really not a database program. And so it doesn't have a lot of functions that database programs have. And one of the functions that database programs have, like sequels, is they can take the work of doing like a query and they can split it up. So like for instance, if you're just trying to like, if you've got like the BRSS data set and you just wanna pull the women out, which is gonna be about maybe half the data set, then if you're doing that in SQL, SQL goes, okay, why don't I partition this big table into these little like three pieces, pull the results from those three and put it back together. That's called threading. And you can, that SQL, that's why we love SQL, right? Okay, SAS doesn't really do that. And SAS has added things to make it better, but it doesn't really have those things. But Amazon web services, now let me explain to you my experience with Amazon web services. There's a lot more to it than this, but I'll just give you an example. I had a learner ask me to help them with an assignment and I live in Boston. I think they were going to Boston University or something and they said, well, we're doing machine learning and I'm like, I don't know much about that. And they're like, no, no, no, it's easy. I just need to use Amazon web services. And so basically what we did, they had a student account or something, we had some data in Excel, just the way you would have data for like logistic regression and SAS or something. And we upload it, you know, it's like you're basically running a regression model, like a much fancier regression models the way I see these machine learning ones. So we'd uploaded into AWS into that environment.  That's what the independent variables are in AI land. And then we click something and we'd get results for all these canned AI models, right? Like they are canned. So we just look at like model results and stuff.  But what Amazon web services does a lot more than that, they're the backend of a lot of, I believe a lot of transit, like online store transit, hence Amazon, like this is basically Amazon software that they're letting you use, which if you read Wired Magazine, you'd be like kind of suspicious of it, which is why I'm like going, let's say my SAS data is the army people back then. Do I really wanna pass that through Amazon servers? Come on. So I wasn't really sure if that's really what it meant. But what I realized is probably that's what's going on is the bulk loading capabilities. So bulk loading, what is that? It's basically being able to manipulate splitting up the work of doing the query, right?  And what I mean by that is like when you're moving, right? Like when you're moving apartments or whatever, you get a U-Haul and you bulk load the U-Haul, you know? It's not like you're bringing some furniture over to your friend's house, you don't need a U-Haul. No, no, you're bringing everything over to a new apartment, so you're bulk loading. And bulk loading is totally different than what you normally do. And so AWS allows you to set up like a bulk load from SaaS server into Snowflake, right? And so from the white paper, at the time I'm writing this February, 2020, the only object store supported for SaaS access interface to Snowflake bulk loading is AWS S3. Now I'm happy to say I think it's different now. I think we've got Azure. And so, you know, so this white paper suggests you're passing data through your SaaS server through AWS server, Snowflake really. So, and it looks like that. Now, if you're worried about like PHI and all that, well, I don't know what to tell you. I would have to look into that. And I thought reading this, it might not be ready for prime time, but of course that whole paper is a little bit older, right? So SaaS's tools have good IO in the SaaS environment. So that's why we all got very spoiled and just kept throwing stuff on the server, the SaaS server. It's like, it was hard to get in on the server once we got in there, oh, let's, you know, what if we need it, you know, just leave it there. We might need it. Well, you got to get rid of it if you're gonna move, right? So this AWS is basically to help IO. And what you can see here is this is from the white paper. And the white paper is kind of painful to read not because it's poorly written. So it's actually really helpfully written. And the person who did it, I just feel so sorry for them because they were really working with some new integration software, you know, like a new pipeline, but see this graph that shows the relative performance. So this is insert versus bulk load. And what's going across here, I've made, I made a bunch of these when I was at the army is like how big the data set is. And this is how long it takes to load, right? And this is the kind of stuff I was seeing at the army is like, okay, if we're loading a million records in PC SAS, okay, here's two million, here's four million, here's eight million, and now my SAS programmers are playing solitaire, right? And so this is kind of like what you get from both loading and so you can see, okay, great.  It's nothing's perfect, but anyway, so and just like, you know, with data steps and everything, how you make your SAS code can change, you know, how fast this whole thing goes. And so basically, if you're here, I wanted to show you a few things. If you're thinking about it, my point is that you really wanna plan. So this is actually the white paper. So if you were gonna do this today, I would pull this white paper, but I would update myself. I would look at this white paper and then I'd Google everything it says to just see what has happened since then, okay? So what this white paper, I'm just gonna quickly go over it. It's, I think what it says is you start with your SAS server, you open up an ODBC connection using SAS access to AWS, like through two snowflake through AWS and I don't know how to do that, but I, and what they're talking about here is how a snowflake function support, like how snowflake supports SAS commands basically. And then, oh, and I guess snowflake has its own connectors, own ODBC, but this gives you, okay, then it says here, so this is how you connect to snowflake and then you insert data into it and then bulk load into it. You start explaining it here and that's where I started realizing, well, wait a second here, this is actually really hard. It's so cute here in the middle, he goes, just tell me what to do. And my heart goes out to him. That first part is just education, like explaining to the reader what you're talking about. And then the next one is just follow these steps and forget what I just told you because I know how hard this can be, bulk loading into anything. Just follow what I say here. But the problem is it's three years later, so you kind of have to not just follow what it says, you have to update it. So I was looking on Snowflake, here's Snowflake's website. So I thought, well, maybe I would see like a use case where they actually did a SAS to Snowflake and now they're using SAS Viya. So basically there's the data in SAS and then there's the analytics, right? So once you move your data to the cloud, it doesn't matter what cloud you use, you're gonna have to use Viya now. That's the whole point of Viya is basically so you can do SAS in the cloud. So it was weird because Viya was invented first before being able to do this. And I think it was because, like I never understand SAS as business plans, but I think it's because SAS wanted people to adopt SAS and they knew that they wouldn't really adopt SAS if they didn't make it so that you could do it on the web. Like, so for example, I don't know if you're familiar with Athena Health, but that's an online medical records platform. It's online, like it was built that way. I just read about it, I haven't used it. It's kind of popular that it was a startup, they're around here in Boston. Well, let's say that they wanted to, SAS wanted to sell analytics to Athena Health. I think they started in something like 2015. They were never not a cloud provider. So how would you do SAS? Like, I mean, you could give them PC SAS, but that would be bogged down immediately because they have a huge, I don't know how they do their analytics, but that's why I think they invented Viya first. And then they were like, oh crap, well now everybody's SAS serviceful, so we gotta get that in the cloud. And, but then at least you know if you move your SAS data to the cloud, Viya's already there. And you already pretty much know how to use Viya. Like it's a little awkward, but you know, it pretty much runs as always any other SAS does. So I wanted to look up to see, you know, just look what other people would say today, maybe not a SAS white paper, which are very extensive, but like, so I just Googled randomly and I found this pipes. So pipes looks like it's like Amazon web server. It's some sort of service that helps you. So I wanna just show you this diagram. Okay, so this is if you wanna move SAS data into snowflake and you wanna do it the pipes way, right? So see all these things down here? Like why is that coming over here? Right, I'm not sure. And then you have SAS coming over here and then that all ends up in snowflake. So I'm not really sure what this even means. So I kind of went down here and it says connect to snowflake, connect to SAS, use your credentials to all pipes access to the SAS API. So remember how I was just saying, do you really have to put your data in Amazon web services to get it to snowflake from SAS and the answer is no, you can put it in pipes, I guess. And so there's like, basically when you think about it, you're gonna have to probably need at least two things. This kind of an application to help you move your data from the SAS server and another application, the cloud storage application. And be careful picking the cloud storage application.  It's you migrated your data, it's done. You don't have to use them anymore.  So that's part of why I like snowflake. See, remember how I told you I was in love with them? This is my blog. I looked back, long time ago, it's kind of an ugly post. I wasn't so good with the UX builder yet, but they had a data for breakfast. The breakfast was awesome. This is like, if you look at March 4th, 2020, this is literally the last thing I did before the pandemic. And then I never left my apartment. I'm not even kidding. And so because Genentech had some sort of conference, was it Genentech? And had a local spreading event. Thanks, guys. Good thing that they're so good with biology. But anyway, so I actually went to this. This was, I think the second one. I went to another one after this. Maybe it was a year later. I can't remember. Because one of them I went to, they went to demo it. And I just wanted to see, what does it look like when you use snowflake? And it kind of looks like Microsoft SQL in the cloud. Like, if you can imagine that. But it didn't really work at like, the first demo I went to, they just couldn't get it to work, right? And so I couldn't really tell. I didn't really write much about it because they couldn't even get it to work at the demo. But this is a long time ago, now it works. And then after that, so what I learned from snowflake, from this close intimate interaction is, I think they're full of money.  Well, SaaS is also full of money too, but they don't know how to do this stuff. So it makes me think that if you go with snowflake, like if you're at a workplace that has a lot of money, like Google, and you have, or maybe not Google would have this, but we're like HCA, that's a hospital system that has a lot of money. Let's say that for some reason, you've got a SaaS server there and you have to move it into snowflake. Well, moving it into snowflake is not such a bad idea because these people are rich and they'll come and help you, right? I think that snowflake would come out, but they were really super nice to us. And so I really believe that if you sign up with them, now I don't know if other play, I don't know about the other pipe, what was it called, pipes? I don't know how what they're like. Yeah, maybe they'll really help. Well, maybe all these people are really helpful. I just don't know. But in any case, I just kind of fell in love with snowflake. They have such a cool logo and so hot outside. It's nice to get to snowflake. So I just have a few take home messages for you if you have to move, if your SaaS server is getting full. And that is that technology solutions only go so far. We might need more creative management solutions. So remember when I talk about inventorying, what's on your SaaS server? Like that's kind of weird to do on a SQL server because SQL servers are usually relational databases like you don't inventory that. But SaaS servers tend to be data lakes where you've got, okay, this clinical trial, okay, there's this pilot study, whatever. It could even be a file server, right? But the reason why it's not a file server is the SaaS server is because you wanna do analytics on it and it's too hard to load each time. My problem I had at the army, that's why I was going crazy. It's cause I didn't have a SaaS server, but I worked there from 2008 to 2011. I'm like, I am not buying the SaaS server now. I'll need to get rid of it right away, which is right away is like 10 years later, you know what I mean? So do we really need all these data anyway for what we're doing? Like I, do we need to move all the data into the cloud? And remember when stuff is in the cloud, it can get stolen from the cloud, okay? So if we're in SaaS and we're talking about health data, do we really need it all up there, you know? And okay, if we have to move it there, can we de-identify it first? Like is it possible to just keep maybe Excel crosswalks of IDs and stuff? But then the other thing you can ask is, can we somehow stay out in the cloud and preserve our SaaS environment?  If you have the discipline to do that, you're a good server manager. I think I vote for you. But what about today? Should a new SaaS shop just start in the cloud to begin with and be ultimately compatible with SaaS Viya? I would say, yeah. Like I would say do not set up a SaaS server today. Like I could be talked out of that. Like if somebody came to me with the right use case, maybe I'd be like, oh, okay, sure. But I'll tell you the main reason. And if you show up to my next presentation, you'll find out why. It's about migrating to R from SaaS. That's, you can't totally do it usually. But the reasons why, the use cases I'm gonna show you have to do with these people have a SaaS server, these places have a SaaS server and they got the bill. Every time you get another bill for the next year of your licenses and your SaaS server, that bill goes up. And the bill for R and Python never goes up. I mean, maybe you have to pay consultants, maybe you have to pay for equipment or whatever. Well, you still have to pay for that with SaaS. So it's like SaaS is getting painting itself in the corner. All right. Well, thank you very much. That's the end of anything I wanted to say. Like, you know, I forgot to look at the chat. Let me look at the chat here. So, oh, hello, Rudeau.  Now you got to see what I had to say. Oh, and then Mika showed up. I'm so happy she showed up. All right, so this is me. You can go to the LinkedIn event to download the slides if you want the slides. And again, I just, those of you who weren't here in the beginning, I just want to remind you that I've got this free online workshop you can take. Well, it'll be on Zoom. It's called Application Basics for SaaS Integration. But it's based on an online course that I've already made and you can go look at and you'll get for free if you come to this free workshop, which is about application basics. So what I realized is people who are trained outside of business schools or computer science disciplines, they may not really understand the design of applications. Like we all know SaaS pretty well. Maybe we know some other applications as well, but how are they made? And like who's making them? And how do they figure out what they're gonna do and all that? Well, the reason why you want to know that is if you want to do SaaS integration, just like I was describing how Snowflake is designed, like that's an application, AWS is an application. Well, it's really helpful to understand like the framework behind it. Like how are these things being made? So you'll have so much fun if you sign up for my workshop. We're gonna meet three times Monday, Wednesday and Friday, August 7th, 9th and 11th. Each meeting will be about two to three hours depending on how many people sign up. And then, and you'll get this, everything is free. You'll get the Zoom link, you'll get the online course and I'll teach it. Like it's not gonna be boring. You won't have to watch any of the videos in the course. You can if you want to, but I'll teach it to you. And hopefully we can have some really good discussions because what you're immediately gonna see is that all of this is kind of art, this integration stuff. Like whether you're talking about SaaS or any application, integration is where it is. We're analyzing data from applications. We're using SaaS to analyze Twitter data, analyze Facebook data. So I encourage you to come to this workshop because I think it'll add to your skills. So and with that, I will end what I was planning to present, but you can ask questions in the chat. Thank you for watching this video, which is part of the Public Health to Data Science rebrand program. If you are interested in joining the program, please sign up for a 30 minute Zoom interview using the link in the description.


This is not meant to be an advertisement, but this is just a fact. I use woodland scenic scenic cement on a lot of my dioramas They get the storage they get kind of messed up dirty Sometimes they get a mud-dabber nest on them and the best way I find to wash them off, believe it or not Is to just hose them off with a little water soft brush And in about a minute this diorama is gonna look as good as new. It's not gonna hurt the track It's not gonna hurt the foam because the woodland scenic scenic glue keeps everything pretty much water tight Water isn't really soaking into this It's not even getting through or penetrating. It's simply washing off the dirt when this when this dries Good as new. I don't suggest you do it to your layout But I do it to all my dioramas This month we're gonna take a hiatus while we're working on some new and exciting projects I've got a Joe Steinman and Mike Buddy piece coming up where they set up 28 feet of mainline We've got some spectacular run-bys at that We've got the Atlanta show coming up a whole lot of new what's neat this week So just stay tuned if you'd like to see your work on what's neat this week contact me Ken Patterson at kensartoneatmsn.com If you've got a couple of locomotives, maybe a few freight cars, and it doesn't matter what scale It could be large scale O scale on 30 HO just something that's nice that you've done yourself I'd feature it in a video made about you and your work Similarly to the past what's neat this week's that have run now so far in model railroad Hoppiest magazine so with that I invite you again to email me at kensartoneatmsn.com Show me a few photographs of what it is you have and we can schedule a time that you can meet me out here in my photo studio And I'll prepare a presentation about your works a what's neat this week on you something You can show your family at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and it'll run in model railroad hobbyist magazine So with that let me just say thank you very much for watching and always I I need your support I need the talent of all modelers out there. Thank you very much sure to check out Ken Patterson comm Model railroad instructional videos on how to do scenery. I've got a DVD available on how to weather steam This is how I weather all of my steam locomotives prior to a photo shoot. This is 1995 for a DVD it'll be mailed to you International customers click on the second buy it now button for $10 shipping the United States first-class mail and then the United States Inter in you know continental purchasers for 95 shipping and handling on the first button. So the website's all set up I've got a new video available where we've taken a BLMA signal tower bridge, and we actually used it for the basis for an entire Photography and scenery video. It's only just a few minutes, but that's all it takes To show you how from the ground up to build a scene for an entire setup like a first-class Photography videos, you know shot that you'd want for you Anyway, check it out Ken Patterson comm. I've got a lot of neat things available


I hope the quality of this camera on my coffee maker I hope the quality of my camera is better I have no idea what I what happened but my settings had changed yet again recently so I went ahead and switched it up um what's going on so we have a lot going on in the next two weeks I we literally have six events going on and today is Thursday tomorrow we have a fair but I should say the fall carnival at JB's school I'll take y'all along with me there he decided he didn't want to do the Chukitree crawl in our neighborhoods I said okay because I know he would be tired because the carnival starts at 5 they do have early release today it's going tomorrow then Saturday I have lunch with miss delightful she's another YouTuber and her sister Sunday we have a birthday party so we have a lot going on next week I have the anniversary party I'm going to excited about that and we have a Halloween bash and then there's something else going on oh yeah another outdoor Halloween festival so we have a lot going on this is what I like to do for my family during the fall season I know not everyone celebrates all the holidays but I like the festival of it you know what I mean the festive festivities is that a word festive whatever so um however I could feel my anxiety coming up and I've been very short with JB like everything he's been doing has been I've been really short with him I've been short with my husband so I need to it's not them it's me yes JB is acting out but I'm the adult I should be able to respond appropriately so I need to get back on my medication that's just is what it is I am on barispony which is used for allergies but they but it also could be dual usage for anxiety it takes about one to two weeks to get any you have to take it consistently it's not like Xanax or something else to where it's habit-forming and something like Xanax it can control your anxiety right then in there their spawning takes a while for your system to get used to it so I started back on it yesterday I'm just gonna take it every day so I won't be this way you know so mental health is really important especially during holidays I will also add a young lady to ask me how I create my stickers I would be doing a video on that because girl this coffee maker is out of control I have a binder full of stickers they didn't take long at all however I've been printing minds out and I'm not using them tools sell on Etsy or anything like that it's for personal usage so staples oh I'm not using it to sell I'm not you know putting it all on social media for people to look at it's for personal usage and so yeah I'll do a little quick because I know not everyone's into that I'll do a little quick through the four-minute video on how I create my stickers for my planner and yes I went to the Dollar Tree yesterday got a binder got some of those I'll show you what that looks like those stickers and I'm good I would say so far I have spent including printing though I bought $20.25 on stickers but those stickers will last me for a good year yes I have a lot of them I also purchased some stickers from an Etsy shop one of them they're so cute they're for a wash day and another one were camera stickers I think I can recreate the wash day but I purposely wanted to see those stickers so I could see how I could recreate them again not selling them they're gonna be for my own but anyway yeah a lot going on there was something I want to tell y'all about I need to go get a sip of this coffee um what's I gonna talk to y'all about I cannot remember I was kind of laughing at some of the comments I got on my chitchat video especially for those years when I'm in the US about how cold it is I don't think 65 degrees is cold and honestly US as a whole in my state that's definitely not cold US as a whole right now most of the state is at 50 55 and under yeah 55 and that's really not cold I live in the desert and when in the desert we get cool mornings cool nights but most of the day most of the day is not 65 most of the day is 75 today it's gonna be like 81 yeah so we got cool mornings cool nights and the days are 80s yeah um but to cuz the Grand Canyon is where I it's where I you know the state I'm at the Grand Canyon those you I hope you're familiar with that you may not be if you're not from here I shouldn't say that Northern Arizona which is where it's really cool at we went up there once it was 19 degrees that is negative six Celsius is that how you say it but it gets even colder than that I know some people who live in areas like North Dakota even in Canada it gets really cold but it gets negative what am I co-workers told me what when she was growing up in North Dakota it was negative 30 I'm like why when it's that cold and you're not inside you will die she's told me a story of two classmates of hers that died in their vehicle stranded because they basically froze to their hypothermia very you know unfortunate let me know how y'all feel about this so YouTube has this new tool called premiers and I saw it yesterday when I was uploading my video and so I watch a couple of videos on what it's about so basically what it is it's almost like a movie premiere you know how sometimes certain movies will have a premiere it'll premiere a couple of you know weeks before it actually is public made out to the public so for premiere as a youtuber I could either premiere a video right away or premiere it schedule it I should say and it's almost like you watch it live so people can come on they can watch it all together there's a countdown before it starts excuse me there's a countdown before it starts showing a YouTube trailer and then it premiers countdowns five ten well girl you can't recount five four three two one here's the premiere of Annette Metz wash and go that's a fail again there's a live chat there as a content creator I can sit there and watch it with you guys live you have to watch it from beginning to end you can't fast forward it you guys can comment on it I can interact with people but there's a couple of things that I'm like siding I know it's all for money and oh yes the youtubers who are here if this is their livelihood and this is why they make a living I can see how they make a benefit this is a hobby for me so yes I don't mind interacting with you guys let me just get to the point super chat super chat this is one of the yeah it's has super chat capabilities due to the live feed and all that excuse me the live chat and so it's just another way for people to make money it really is now like I said while it's premiered you have to watch it from you don't have to you can get out of the video but you can't fast forward it and for me personally I'd like to fast forward through videos you can go back and then once it's done it's public is made public now let me back up when you premiere it or schedule it to be premiered people can look and see that all okay Vivian has a video coming up in two more days they can comment and say oh I can't wait to see your wash and go it's gonna be another fail while you torturing your ass with that again you know you can comment on what's to come but you can't see it I don't even know if I like that I can see how some people will see it I can see how some folks will look at the benefit of it but for me personally since I can say this is a hobby for me even though I'm not uploading you know two to three times a week yeah I'm not sure maybe something like okay so this is what I could see it from because this would be cute maybe something like when JB opens up his Christmas presents this age is so cute y'all when JB opens up his Christmas presents then maybe I could premiere that and we can sit down and watch it you know we drink our coffee and you know we can watch that together as a family maybe that but just my regular old videos no sorry y'all hold on what the hell what are these birds doing y'all birds are extremely intelligent one one afternoon when I had nothing else to do my ass must have watched a good 30 minutes so child what is this bird doing but anyway y'all yeah one time in my YouTube down there rabbit hole I watched a video videos for about 30 minutes on birds using tools you can teach birds different things are very smart creatures actually anyway y'all what is going on it's Friday and I'm ready to swing I got an email from Papa those I don't know why but my husband does not like Papa those I shouldn't say that um the Papa those out here is not as good as the ones in Texas and while we were there we noticed a lot of Papa those have popped up so anyway well I talked about that for a girl I told y'all my mind it's Friday I've been very productive this week there's some couple of things I had to push shopper overalls been a very productive because I've been working with limited time I'm gonna show you guys later on today how I cuz I think it could be helpful for some people how I basically plan out my weeks my month and there's a couple of things I've been doing new thank to thanks to Alexis she's in her trench coat she's is a fellow youtuber who does content on productivity goal planning I absolutely love her videos and I've been following her for a while but I'm just not really getting into her I've been a type of person that's always been a planner I mean my mama told me that she found to-do lists of minds from when I was in high school I've always been a to-do list type of person I've always been a goal oriented type of person but I've always measured my goals by age and if I didn't know if I didn't accomplish something that year that quarter whatever I would definitely move it on to the next year I will honestly have to say that within the fight the past five years I have accomplished so much and I'm very grateful for it a lot of that has to do with me releasing a lot of the strongholds I had allowing myself to fully trust in the most high okay whatever you believe in but for me personally that's what has really helped me and I ultimately you know just deciding that I don't have all the answers I don't know at all I'm a very type a type of person and if things don't follow the plan for me in the past I would have been like oh hell that's it you know but right now it's like I don't have to have all the answers okay that's why I met right now in my life I'm trying to get out of this stuck phase but there may be a reason why I'm in this stuck phase this is where I'm at right now okay so there may be a reason why I'm feeling stuck and I'm still in the mornings I'm still trying to sit in silence it may not be every day but today I couldn't do it because I have some stuff I had to do but tomorrow morning I would definitely take the time to be in silence take the time to meditate I'm making time to I'm ensuring that I'm getting enough sleep and when I have any time available I do something look I am taking advantage of my time I have that is something I definitely have been working on for the past few months any time I have if I could do it like what Alexis say if you have two minutes if you could do something another two minutes and you need to get it done do it and so I've been following that motto you know if anything that needs to be done if I need to send a quick email real quick a quick text message to someone I do it so that way that's another item on my to-do list let's check off so yeah I'll show you guys how I've been doing it to get you know to stay on track and to get as much done as I can't in my work week because those you don't know I still run JB's YouTube channel which is not a lot but I'm posting on his channel monthly I'm trying to do weekly but monthly so running two YouTube channels a blog I work from home and I'm trying to homeschool at least do supplement to homeschool and I'm still doing that girl so it's a lot of work oh and I'm a wife you know I have to you know torque for my husband every now and then that's a lot of damn work being married is hard speaking of you guys I've been the Paris I'm gonna try hard not to cry hold on let me get myself together this is not me being dramatic it just with me personally emotions can hit me hard because I'm a very sensitive person when someone close to me goes through something as I'm sure some of you are like this when someone very close to me goes through something it really hurts me I mean I feel that person's pain I feel that I'm sensitive to that y'all I'm not going to go into any detail because I want to respect her privacy it is so hard being in a relationship right it is very difficult I know a lot of people say well they can't find a good man there are people out there there are I think there's someone out there for everyone I know this is so cliche and I also think that there are I do believe in soulmates yes plural I don't believe I know y'all thinking girl what I do believe in multiple people possibly being soulmates for you that's how I that's how I think you know but with that being said once you have decided to become one it can be very challenging because when you first meet someone and when you are first in relationship it's almost a honeymoon season I would say even for the first two or three years it's this honeymoon season you're it's exciting you know there's this fire that you have and then it's like okay now we marry we lose each other so one of the things I really have had to treat our relationship is first of all before we even decided to get married we wrote out what was expected of the other person now yeah sometimes things like off and it is what it is and and we promise each other that we will make time for each other that we will continue to date each other learn from each other and that we will put each other first over everything each other I will we will put each other first over any and everything what does that mean Vivian and now it doesn't mean that let me let me say that it doesn't mean that I neglect other parts of my life or other people but I still put the needs and the desires of my husband over anything else not not over mine but and that we also we agreed to disagree on certain things we don't have to agree on everything so it's a very selfless act to be this way there are so many things that I do for my husband that I don't want that's it I'm rambling the next time you see us we'll be at the outdoor festival yes I'm gonna be filming there and then tomorrow I get to go hang out with my girl Miss Rondon how crazy ass sister Lord have mercy y'all but look real quick there's a girl who goes to this gym and I'm a type of woman well I see a beautiful woman I compliment women I have no problem complimenting other women so there's this woman I saw y'all sorry there's this woman I saw a couple of months ago nice body they steer it I saw so there was a woman a couple of a couple of months ago I saw nice body curvy not too skinny you know she had an hourglass figure and I know some of you help us that you got an hourglass figure you don't I think the stats are like 70% of us are straight you may be curvy but you have a ruler straight you know body type she has an hourglass figure I mean she was wearing what do you call this a workout jacket and her body you could still see body I'm like oh yeah she's giving me body she's definitely our class so anyway I've seen her a few times and I'm looking around like I bet she ain't got no kids she she you know this is what this is her life she doesn't drink no Starbucks you know I'm like all right so why did I see her this was like a couple of months ago right couple months ago why did I see her when the school first started at JV school back in August girl she opened up a van oh yeah she so I know some foolery right she came out of up out of a van with three kids I said you know what and the youngest one is just now walking so I saw her just now because she finally introduced herself because yeah I don't care what you say I am an introvert I don't make eye contact with people I'm on my phone most of the time I'm talking to no one who's there I'm talking to Google Play because I don't know I don't want anyone talking to me a lot of the moms get together and they you know they huddle and whatever they do now I will speak to some moms one and two but just to go up to someone having a conversation that's not me um so well as we will walk me out she turns around she said I'm so and so by the way she introduced herself I'm like okay hi I'm Vivian but I say you know what I see you at the gym and I have to say you have a great figure what are you doing knowing damn well I'm not gonna so she started you know she said thank you and she said that you know she does a lot of weights she does a lot of weights and she does a little cardio she says she goes to the gym three to four times a week but she said it's her diet which I knew just looking at her body I knew her body and her skin her teeth perfect it's her diet she said that she eats 80% good she's a vegetarian but she's not a new vegetarian she's only been doing it for a year or so and she eat a lot of vegetables a lot of vegetables a little fruit because fruit is sugar but she eats a lot of veggies I'm like okay that's good and I'm thinking about the damn eggos I'm gonna eat after my 45 days out of the week because it's your diet and I knew that I knew she's gonna tell me that something I didn't want to hear I don't even know why I ask but yeah let me go up in here then y'all make a change so there is a brunch tomorrow that I won't be going to because I'm going to be meeting up with Mr. Lightbulb Juicy I use kinky dresses to set my hair I don't think I'm gonna unravel a lot because because of my volume I really don't have to yeah this is all blown out here by the way the baby's tired but he gonna wake up right boo boo help my friends she's doing anything to help my friends anything to help my friend so mommy would help you like this does this help if mommy helps you like that okay scary oh y'all we are back home look I am tired we've been out for three hours come on we spent so did you have a good time sweetheart did you have a good time huh yeah yeah he's all stuffy mr. mixed up in front square in the morning time we just walked me in we sent me got mixed up and we saw a bendy bop so how did you have fun did you have fun at the park I mean at the fair yeah and we went to the fair what was your favorite part of the I do a fair God it's her girl it's coming JB up fair the favorite part of the fair was the fair candy crawl candy crawl you guys for Halloween and I did a oh my god somebody's cooking bacon look I haven't cooked bacon in our house in years my husband doesn't eat pork it's cute alright and then we have no baby no we have this body we're up here no sweetheart hey you guys this is a request showing you how I make my own stickers I found that PowerPoint is very flexible so what you want to do is just bring up PowerPoint and here are some of the decorative stickers these are just clip arts that I found and I have several different types of themes we have Christmas here natural hair we have beauty so now I'm going to show you how I actually create I guess you will call them the functional or productive stickers and I found that the rounded rectangles works best for me I use these for appointment reminders doctor visits volunteer meetings etc so you just go to shapes and insert depending on your application whatever you use I'm on a Mac by the way do you show any all the different types of shapes you have circles you have old worlds you have arrows you have down arrow so you can get very creative you know and there are tons of videos on how to create your own stickers for your planners I'm not an expert I use I typically just started excuse me I just started recently doing this so yes not an extra you have to excuse my voice you guys I am a little sick right now I'm so now I'm just gonna show you how I change the field color okay I hope you guys enjoy the rest of this video so you could get very creative I'm showing you right now how you can actually change up a pattern but I will say depending on the type of pattern you use it's really difficult to read the text so you want to be careful here you can also change the outline colors you know you can get very creative like I said before so I'm gonna start entering some text I think for this month I'm going to do do today I make it questions how did I determine what size would I need for my actual planner itself because I'm using a fairly small planner planner excuse me looking at other videos on how other people created their own stickers I noticed that they were used in between a 16 to 22 font size so I made the majority of my funds a size of 16 between 18 and it works perfectly well I can read them if you need it larger you can do so I'm just gonna continue here creating these stickers and I have my local staples to print them out because I want to have a very good quality when I print it and when I'm done I'm going to save it as a PDF it just makes it easier for printing also I do have my own sticker paper that I've just had always but you could purchase sticker paper from just about anywhere they sell it at Walmart staples and then yeah I'm just gonna continue I'll have here do today stickers and you're gonna see me here just change up the font color itself because you want to be able to read it right so I'm gonna make this color a little bit lighter so that it could be you can read it easily or I could read it easily so yeah you guys so I'm gonna continue to create stickers and I hope you guys enjoy this video as long as you're using your stickers for personal usage don't be afraid to just look up clip art you can use as stickers themselves so I'm looking for something for a dentist appointment so some of these look a little silly you know so I'm gonna find one here on the left hand side I'm gonna select this one want to ensure that it's a transparent background just in case I want to include this actual image on a sticker itself I'm gonna show you what that looks like here in a second again adjusting the size so it's not too big and I mostly use these stickers throughout the week for my weekly view and not necessarily for the calendar view the vertical excuse me the the long stickers I should say the productive stickers here as you can see I'm gonna put this clip warp right there I will use this sticker on my month view if that makes sense so yeah don't be afraid to just search for a different type of images through Google and there's tons of stuff there now next up I'm gonna include some images excuse me clips from other youtubers who have showed how you can actually cut your stickers cuz you got to cut a certain type of way right so there's the guy roll tool I believe that's how you pronounce it I purchased it through Amazon and there's also a I guess a craft knife you can use and I'm going to link both of these youtubers videos below cuz this really helped me and I have both of these type of craft cutting tools I guess you could say and they both work they both have their advantages I should also mention so okay you guys so I'm just gonna show you guys how I basically plan out some things and I was doing this before I got these sheets these working sheets from Alexa she's in her trench coat it is the trump shop.com I downloaded these sheets for free she has a brain dump planner sheets etc so what I do is I make a list of things that I would like to do for the next year few years or so I just write a list a whole list now but I like her sheets because she has them a little bit more organized so this is called the brain dump so just a bunch of ideas I have lifted down then from my brain dump is what I use to create my goals okay I still have some goals from 2018 that are gonna bleed into 2019 my goals is more of a five-year plan okay then from those goals you create mid-term goals which I haven't done here and then you create short-term goals and you use those goals to then create tasks all right let's say one of the tasks was I just had one right now was to create planner stickers okay so as a project plan I have create planner stickers and then I have my mini task here I write everything out all right then from there you can create a monthly task length list I have one for October I've already started one for November and December then this is where your planner comes into into play for me personally I limit my task list to three tasks per day but sometimes it can get a little bit more a little bit more crazy as you see here I have four tasks here but most of the times I only do three you see that's three I have two here two there look I just schedule everything out you have seven days seven days to schedule everything out so this is this coming week but let me show you what last week was yeah you see a lot of things were moved around when I once I accomplished something I do a check mark if it didn't occur I scratched it out meaning that was canceled that's how I work okay a little bit of stickers here but not a lot yeah yeah last week was crazy this is the week before so yeah this is this coming week I've already had it all planned out and I'm gonna review everything though especially the first beginning of the week to make sure that everything is going okay and that's how I you know schedule again taking my task from October check marks the ones I've already been accomplished so I only have just looking at it let me count one two I don't want to show I don't want to zoom in on everything so yeah I don't want y'all up in business so let's see one two three four five only have five tasks less left to complete and you know we're almost done with October it's technically the last week coming up so I'm doing good I'm on track I'm okay November excuse me swallowing hard November this is what November is looking like already getting filled up okay but this is what the first week looked like so far so good okay so that's how I stay organized at least try to this is my 2019 I've already gone in and started scheduling since I have a child scheduling JV days off his breaks and all that you know since I have his school calendar this is what I do to yeah try to stay ahead of the game at least so yes it is Sunday morning and that is it for this vlog I may show clips of the birthday party we're going to but I'm not feeling too well my throat was burning last night JV was coffee has been coughing it's the weather change but my throat was on fire so one of the things I do and it's still burning girl you stink about the apple cider vinegar vinegar about the seed salt peppermint essential oil excuse me I have my essential oil diffuser over here going you probably can't see it you know you can't see that and then I make ginger tea ginger tons of lemons raw raw honey and I would literally drink that for the next 24 hours we are going to go to the store boo boo I'm going to go to the store I'm going to go to the store I'm not feeling good I'm going to go to the store get some bones to make some bone broth we get whatever you want if you leave me alone get some balls off yes yes yes yes yes to your will yes what's that noise is raining this morning it was hailing and my car then JV has been up for since 430 I am tired I am tired I'm done so we have a birthday party we're gonna go to later on but until then I'm going to relax I'm just gonna sit down I'm tired I'm not gonna do anything like I was gonna claim today canceled there's birthday party JV if it's outdoors we're only gonna be there for an hour we can't be there all day because we both don't feel well okay so y'all the last time I'm close to oven the last time I tried jiffy cake mix it was very dry very dry not flake before at all I found those two boxes on clearance I forgot where from so what I did as you saw there I added half a package of pudding I also added some sour cream one tablespoon of vanilla now the pudding and sour cream is gonna make the cake fluffy I added two eggs and one egg white again the egg white it's gonna add some fluffiness to it these are nine inch pans by the way I got these from the Goodwill a while back so I'm gonna bake these at 375 for 30 minutes and then I'm gonna ice them with chocolate so this is gonna be a classic yellow cake with chocolate icing yes so I'm hoping I'll turn out okay the jiffy cake mix I can't even remember if it was sweet or not it was just very bland that's what I will I remembered so we'll see how this turns out alright y'all the cake is done I don't know how long it took I can tell when the cake is done just by smelling it in the color so I just cut a little bit out let's see oh yes oh yes it has not cooled off but can you see let's let it zoom in how moist it is and how spongy this cake is typically not like this so this is due to the extra egg white the sour cream and the pudding now let's just taste it look how spongy and that is very very nice mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm yeah this is not too sweet this is just right just just just right to me this density and the fluffiness of this is better than a duck and hines mm-hmm yeah


Number six, palm tree withstands abuse.  Their bark is extremely sensitive. A palm tree is a very unique tree where its source of life is in the core, not in the surface. That means you can actually cut the bark of the tree completely and the tree will be naked, hurting, but it won't die. The benefit of being a follower of Jesus, the benefit of being a righteous person, that one of the characteristics of being successful is not in your ability to dodge hurt, rejection, betrayal, and offense, but it's in your ability to overcome it. We have defined success as ability to have relationships where you don't get hurt. We have defined success as ability to go through life where everything works to what you want it to. But God in here says that your success is determined by your ability not to avoid pain, but overcome pain. Because every man in the Bible who became successful actually had a lot of pain in their life. A lot of them, including our Lord Jesus Christ. But what made them different than the rest of the people is not that they were able to hide from it, it's that they were able to face it and they were able to overcome it.  You will get walked upon, you will get rejected, you will be misunderstood sometimes on purpose, at other times unintentionally, you will get backstabbed. Your success is not in ability to find people who will love you so much that they will never hurt your feelings.  But I will not die. But I will not die, I will live and I will rise above that in Jesus' name. Can somebody say amen? You know the way we breathe is we inhale and exhale. The way we eat is when we partake food, we also have a system in our body that eliminates food. The way our cars work is that we have an exhaust pipe. In the system, in the world, in the vehicle, in our body, the way everything is designed, you have to take something in and give something out. But many times in our hearts this is how it works. We're like a sponge, we're taking all of the hurt, all of the rejection, all of that, you know, those things that people didn't show us love, that they shouldn't give us the support that they should have and we're taking that in and we don't have an exhaust pipe to let it all out. We keep that, we keep that, we keep that and then we with the PHD, with the six digit income, with the beautiful car, good appearance, a faithful attender of the gym, everything is good on the outside and this person just snaps and you're like what's going on? They've been taking things inside without having a place where they let it out. If your body would not eliminate the food you take, you would be dead in a month. If you take all that off life offers, but if you don't eliminate that through forgiveness and letting it go, through shaking it off, sometimes you will spiritually die.    If you walk around, you know one of the reasons I don't allow my brother's dog inside of the house is because she runs around on the backyard and she has her feet and they are dirty and she doesn't know how to shake them off and if she walks into the house, which I let her in, into my car and it has beautiful black seats and she took, she doesn't care, she took her paws and put fingerprints all around my beautiful seats. That's exactly what happens when you went through a hurt and pain and you don't shake it off, you will go into a new relationship mad, angry, cranky, and the other person, what's going on with you? But these are fingerprints of the previous hurts that were not dealt with and Jesus says shake it off if you move into a new season, shake it off if you come to a new church, shake it off if you walk into a new relationship, shake it off if you begin a new business opportunity, why? Because you will make it impure by the impurities of your past. Can somebody say, man, being successful is not your ability to find people who will never hurt you, it's in your ability to learn to be big enough to overcome that. Amen?