Hi everybody, my name is Sandy Beach and I'm an alcoholic. And I'm delighted to be part of this event. I love conferences so you're all getting in on the ground floor and I'm sure Jim will be looking for volunteers and if you've never participated in being part of a conference it really is a lot of fun and you become part of a team and you have all these meetings and then all of a sudden you're at the hotel or wherever it's going to be and here's all these people come and you watch them have the most wonderful time and you know that you were part of it, that it couldn't have happened unless you'd been there. So those things are just wonderful but behind the scenes there's so much work that gets done by a nice big team of people. So if you can be part of it you'll definitely improve your sobriety, guaranteed. Let's see, I got sober on Pearl Harbor Day 1964 in Washington DC and I had the same sponsor Bill Terwilliger for a little over 42 years. That's a tremendous blessing to have that relationship go on that long and we became incredibly good friends and we shared a lot of life's ups and downs like everybody does. When you get sober it doesn't mean that life is going to be a bed of roses, it's just going to look like it. And that's pretty powerful stuff, isn't it? It's going to look like it's a bed of roses even when all this crap is happening. You understand deep down inside everything's really fine and that is the miracle of a spiritual answer which is very similar to drinking. Everything's a mess so you go to the bar, you have three drinks, you go, hey, it's pretty good now. I don't have the rent money but that's tomorrow. That's not going to stop me from having a great day. So you can see we already had the secret, we had the wrong higher power. That was the only drawback. We really knew that we couldn't make it on our own. We found something that helped us but it was the wrong something. And we came here and much to our surprise it turned out to be a god of our understanding. I didn't know that that was my problem. I didn't…