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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and on the other line, Ben Thompson. Ben, how you doing?
I'm doing fantastic. I you look great, Andrew. Why do you look so good today?
Coming in nice and crisp today. Lot of good things happening in the Sharp Tech universe.
You wanna tell the people? I I've I have fiber. It we have functional Internet.
No. No. No. Think the thing to emphasize is that Ben didn't have fiber Internet for the last month or two. And so some of the recording sessions, we were dealing with Internet from, like, ten or fifteen years ago. But now coming in high def, no interruptions to any of the podcasts, I'm very excited about the future.
No. You understate how dire the situation was. You know, I acquired I I I bought the location that I'm at because one of my best friends, like, literally lives next door. This actually, I learned this totally on accident. I moved into a place in Taiwan to be closer to the kid's school. Moved in literally in Taiwan, everything is a condo, right? You're all in sort of high rises. We were in a 15 story building. I'm on the so the the building we're in, there is two units per floor. Literally next door ends up being this other guy from Wisconsin, ends up becoming one of my best friends. We still h
of I've met him. He's great. It's amazing that you ran into each other like
It is. And I realized actually a real fundamental key to to happiness is in fact location, location, location. Mhmm. Now, usually location is about weather, and I think weather does contribute to happiness. You should ask for an update on my weather feelings in two to three months.
We'll check back in February to see where your head's at.
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