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This is a great comment. Craig says, I love your renunciation of the dream idea. I'm paraphrasing, but is doing so little with your time sustainable? And that's a great question. If I did nothing all day, if I, you know, as I like to say, sat around all day, it would make me crazy. I don't want to sit around all day, but there are plenty of people who would. And for them, I think it would be sustainable because they'd be happy. I know somebody who's been retired a little bit longer than I am, and they literally just sit around and watch TV. I mean, they take care of their lawn and things like that, but they're super happy. So I think it's sustainable if that's your retirement. And, you know, I've said this in other posts, we have to live our retirement, not someone else's. And for me, I go two or three days without doing anything really significant. And then I'll have like a blast of energy and I'll do like, like that solar system up there. You know, I built that system for the shop. It doesn't provide anybody any benefit. It doesn't provide me any benefit. It would have been cheaper just to run wiring up to the shop. But, you know, that was like a lot of work, a lot of time. And I really enjoyed doing it because I'm a nerd. Other people probably wouldn't enjoy doing that. But, you know, I do a lot of stuff like I design solar systems on my computer. I do a lot of stuff like I design solar systems on my computer in the mornings and I don't know anything about it, but I use a system called Open Solar. And I have this idea, like if you could build these sunflowers, I call them, which are like, you know, like eight to twelve panel arrays that are smallish. But you'd put them in municipalities near the interstate. And, you know, people could pop in, charge for free for about an hour, grab a bite to eat, you know, put 30 or 40 miles of range on their car and move on. To me, that just sounds like a really neat project. So I work designing solar systems. Just to see if a practical implementation could be built. But, you know, it's just fiddling for me. I'm just sort of fiddling on the computer. Is it for everybody? Absolutely not. But I'll bet most people in their retirement have these little silly things they do with their time that only scratches their itch. And that's why I say live your retirement, not someone else's. But it's a valid question. You know, I'm not saying that I'm not going to do it. I'm not saying that I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. But it's a valid question. Like, we have to sit down and decide for ourselves what is sustainable in our retirement. And I think if you're not asking Craig's question, you could end up like several years into your retirement and feeling like, what have I been doing here? So it's a smart question. And I think we all should be asking, like, is what we're doing in our retirement sustainable? Is it making us happy?