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Good evening, Perry. Good evening. How are you? I'm fine, I'm fine. As you know, my name is Vernon and I work with the Humanities Truck Right, okay.

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I am one of the team now. And we tackle and talk about issues that concern humanity, whether it be homelessness, or job issues or whatever. Okay. I have a question that I am going to ask you about your work, your life work. Matter of fact, let me get straight to it. Okay? Everyone has something they have worked on in their life. What is something valuable you have contributed to and can share with others, when thinking about the work you have done in your life thus far. What are you proud of? What can you point to? That's a very good question. There are several things that I I'm very proud of, you know, first and foremost is the line of work that I'm in. I've been working for nonprofit organizations for the last maybe 16, 18 years and I find nothing more rewarding than to see somebody you'd better or do better because of something that I helped them with.

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Okay, you want be specific? I mean, I've worked at two nonprofit organizations. One was So Others Might Eat. Okay, that was, I worked there for approximately eleven or twelve years. I left there and went on to Salvation Army and the capacity that I worked there in, it's not directly with our clients. But what I do help them to be able to sustain a livable environment for the clients. Okay. So can you be more specific? So like the as far the nature? Well, I am a maintenance technician. I'm solely responsible for first of all, where I work. We it's a transitional housing program, where they provide one to two bedroom apartments, two young ladies from the age of 18 to 24 for two years at very low cost and I'm solely responsible for making sure that the units that they have to live in up to par. The other thing that I am my life work that I am very proud in, I'm a musician. I've been playing music since the age of 8 years old and I'm a musican even now to the present. I've still playing them actively playing music. I I it's in the way that they can help, but it helps other people because music soothes the soul. People people can be having the worst time for the worst day and listen to some good soothing music. And for that moment for that time, forget all about their problems, you know, they may, they may resurface after the Music's Over but it kind of takes their mind away from all their problems.

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Okay, great. Great. So you are proud of your music then. Yes, very proud. And your work as a technician at the shelter and the program for homeless women. Well, yeah. Exactly. At technician. Well, yeah. Exactly.

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Anything else. That's pretty much it. You kind of put it in a nutshell. You went straight to the point. That's a great. Okay.