i want to thank merle moss and sarah houseman. as they say, behind every good man there's a better woman, and i've got a great team. most of all, i i want to thank my wife. without my wife, i wouldn't have had a blog. she's been amazing. i mean, teaching herself how to write code to grow blog. and, again, without the blog, there's no book. so most of you know me as having a background in finance. i've been, worked on the sell side of wall street more not quite 25 yearses, in and around wall street for the last 30 years, and the one thing that i always heard when i was trading on wall street was the manager would come over and say, larry, what's your position? they'd ask me that at a 7:30 in the morning, at 8:15, at noontime, six, seven, eight, nine times a day, what's your position. and the position could fluctuate depending on what was going on in the market. i'm sure there are many people around this town as well, around washington constantly being be asked what's your position. often times it's best to find out what the other p