 Well, back in Seattle. I hate not putting this proposal in. I could have written it on the beach with a Mai Tai two weeks ago It's due at 1 30 in the afternoon. It's 9 50 Okay, it's just about 10 o'clock. Here's the plan This proposal is due in three and a half hours, and I gotta get it done a bit before that This would be a non-starter for me except I wrote an NSF proposal a couple months ago With a lot of the same material writing. This is on the edge of possible so Here we go And we're definitely gonna need another cup of coffee Okay, this proposal is only four pages, and I've got a lot of text I can borrow from that's good the trick is I have to get my target table into the right format and uploaded and Correctly shaped as a CSV file and it has to work. I don't have a lot of time to mess around with it I've got a good target table in mind Thankfully they have put their data on sim bad Thankfully I've done this before I'm still a little stressed about it. Well, that's cross-matching. I'm gonna start moving text Sorry, I have to focus on this. This will be more managed to get it Down to four pages. I think I made the science point. I'm not I can't remember it was it was a blur I'm not really speaking very well at the moment my brain is a jumbled mess But the biggest luck of all is that my target table uploaded and Seemed to have worked the first time and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna question it because it's due now I Hope whoever is on my review panel is not watching this video But it felt like something to document This was not how I wanted to spend my morning, but my return on investment is potentially very high, you know a month of salary for a Few hours of very hard work, so this was cycle three of tests This is the third year now with proposals. I put proposals in every single year in the first couple years I put in tons this year. I well I'm co-iron two I think And I wrote one today. This is not how I would recommend writing proposals. Just this is good The other upshot I had working for me is that this proposal is related to one of the talks that I gave a Double ass a few weeks ago, so hey from post double ass while this was not an optimal writing approach This was very good for my work-life balance after double ass. I did a family vacation That was excellent and last night my kids Sleeping what a sleep and that just left This morning. I like this idea. This is a good idea And hopefully some of the texts that I was able to recycle and the new stuff that I wrote to this morning Is compelling it would be great to give money to support this science This would pay for a student for the summer and for myself for a month either way I think the legacy of tests and studying these stars is really important and I feel really good about getting these targets submitted So whether or not they pay me hopefully they'll get observed double ass is also really fruitful in terms of like motivation I came away with some science motivation, but I really came away with a ton of YouTube motivation I've got a bunch of ideas for videos about tests about SETI And a whole bunch of people that I'd like to talk to to do more coffee time chats And it was incredibly validating to get to talk to other people doing science communication on YouTube and Feel their love. Thank you to everyone who chatted with me at double ass All the people who have watched these videos or subscribed got a lot of new subscribers this week It was amazing. Thank you for shout outs from dr. Becky cool worlds and universe today And all the great love on Twitter that people have been sending my way. I really appreciate it it's giving me tons of energy and now I got to get lunch and and Not write another proposal in the morning and I guess you're supposed to say like and subscribe