So that's the spot I'm in. Well I am certainly honored, happy and humble to be with you this morning. I'm always honored when my fellow AAs do me the honor of permitting me to speak with them. I'm happy in your acceptance and I assure you that I'm certainly humble in its fulfillment. But I take courage from the fact that we have such wonderful people in AA, people of essential charity. And that in the great university of Alcoholics Anonymous, there are no teachers and hence no graduates. And so as one highly honored fellow student, I sit with you at the feet of Almighty God trying to learn some of the divine wisdom. And so I count on your charity. I met an old friend here and I was very happy to do it, two old friends, Jim and Clara Wilson. I heard the story not long ago and I was wondering what drunk could possibly have done this thing and as I get to know my friend Jim better, I think it was he, because he says he's a low-bodied dingbat. Well, this lass got in the habit of stopping by a little bar every night for years and having what he quaintly called a nightcap, such said nightcap consisting of six double shots. And he got to be a routine and he never spoke, he just went in the bar and knew what he wanted. So he went in this night and there was only one other person in the bar, an old swamp angel down at the other end of the bar. So Jim drank the six double shots, walked right up the side of the wall, across the ceiling, down the other side, and out the door. And the swamp angel said, gee, he's a funny guy, ain't he? The bartender says, yeah, he never says good night. Well, if you were up here, and I was out there, and you could see this sea of happy faces and talk to all these wonderful people, I think anyone that is still sensible to the symphony of life at all would be thrilled and would be very married, because caught up in a meeting of this kind, and especially this ninth anniversary at Amarillo, certainly are many of the aspirations of the human heart silently and beautifully crystallized in gratitude to our God and…