I think the audacity arose from swelled bank accounts generated by the huge membership. It was less attitude and more “Where are we going to put all this money?” There were fewer ways to invest a hundred years ago, and no FDIC.
I can't fault your logic. I pulled out the Grand Lodge Proceedings for 1923 (the year the Centralia Masonic Temple was opened) and see it reported that we had 40,500 Masons in Washington State. Today we have 8,222.
1 dollar in 1923 was equivalent to 18.27 dollars today.
In 1923, the Grand Lodge fee raised 104,652.75. In 2024 it raised 701,560.61.
Most concerning is that the average age of the 8,222 Master Masons in my Jurisdiction is 68.52 years. Life expectancy for men in Washington State 76.9 years.
So, we have a dollar problem, and a membership problem, and an age problem.
But are these things the symptoms or the cause? That's what I have to wonder.
We did a 15 part and 11 addendum series on Whither are we Traveling, a great reminder of where we are, where we have been and where we are going without change:
Thank you for sharing these links here. I read The Laudable Pursuit for the first time very early in my Masonic career, I imagine I found it on Chris Hodapp's site but can't remember for certain.
In the intervening years I've read it multiple times, and I have tried to incorporate its points into what I do.
For me it leads back to some of my concerns about the future of modern masonry where we have year after year cheapened it out on it. I see so many lodges propped up by 5 or 6 dedicated brothers who work tirelessly that by the time they can step back and be proud of there efforts something else has gone entirely wrong.
We used to build all these buildings and like you mention, now they are all cheap and what gets the job done, versus let build a monument to the craft in which we can be proud as workman in the quarries.
And yes some of these grandiose buildings have caused great hardship for our fraternity, but this leads into the cycle. We have all these amazing historical buildings around the Nation and more and more of them are being sold off. I wish we could stop treating masonry like a cheap endeavor and instead ourselves into it.
Like all of us, I paid my Masonic Dues recently. For the first time ever, I wrote them down as I paid them:
Four Lodges = $179 (This includes the Grand Lodge Dues, Two of these Four have given me a Life Membership, so figure the 179 is for 2.5 Lodges)
Scottish Rite Research Society = $60
Two Scottish Rite Valleys = $110
York Rite, Royal Arch, Royal and Select Masters, Knights Templar = $120
Shrine = $180
SRICF I paid earlier so didn't keep record, but I believe that it was = $90
My wife pays my OES Dues, but if memory serves it is = $15
Total dues = $754
To belong to 13 separate Masonic organizations. Six of which pay to own and maintain their own buildings.
This just isn't going to cut it. It's not enough money to keep all of these things going.
Dues need to be higher. Yes, $750 does seem like a lot, but we have to be honest with ourselves, most Masons don't pay anywhere near that amount. I'm just one of those crazy Masons who join every darn thing apparently.
Lodges particularly need to be charging much higher dues. If doing so harms membership in the Appendant/Concordant bodies, well, that is a price that must be paid. For those other bodies can not exist without our Craft Lodges, and our Craft Lodges can't survive at their current low dues levels.
A big part of the problem is that these edifices to our craft were built smack dab in the center of most towns and cities.
After WW2 there was a mass migration of families abandoning the urban life for the suburbs. Then came the innovation of the mall - a giant structure that drew in businesses large and small away from the downtown core. This all contributed to urban decay of the inner cities.
Now, a lot of these buildings are located in, to put it bluntly, the not so nice part of town, where land values have plummeted. Not all, mind you. A nearby lodge was located on prime waterfront real estate in a bustling small town that had decent tourist appeal. They eventually were able to sell the building for a quite princely sum and rebuild elsewhere where with a tidy nest egg left over.
But my own building is over 100 years old right in the middle of an area filled with dilapidated and abandoned buildings, homeless drug addicts, graffiti, and crime. Selling the building would be difficult and as the building was purposely built as a masonic temple, mostly useless to investors. Because of it's size and age, needed repairs are onerous. As with many other buildings of it's type, it's more of an albatross to the members who meet there. As an added bonus, the politicians in Olympia decided to outlaw natural gas use. The building is heated by natural gas, and replacing the furnace (which is still the original furnace, that had been converted from coal to natural gas decades ago) will cost the temple board tens of thousands of dollars, money it doesn't really have.
There are no easy answers to the problems we face as a fraternity.
Many years ago now, I was just a regular visitor to the City in which I now live. I lived far to the north of here, but would often drag the Airstream down I-5 to the Oregon Coast. I never liked driving too far in a day, so when doing so, I'd spend the night in a nice RV park in Centralia, making the trip to the coast a two day journey.
The thing was, I never knew that there was a nice, historic, downtown here. There were no signs or anything pointing it out to visitors. For years I thought that this City was just the junk out by the freeway, and had no idea that this cool downtown existed.
I didn't discover that there was anything other than the stuff out by the freeway until a friend died and her funeral took place here.
That's changing now, recently. We have a vibrant and involved Downtown Association now, and the City has put up some way finder signs leading to the downtown from the freeway, so things are improving.
But, a downtown can't survive unless visitors can find it. That's the only way to get them to spend their money in it. City leaders can't let the stuff along the freeways and highways be all that they see.
And, I think that Bremerton's downtown is similar. It's kind of cool down there, and there are good restaurants and the like down there. But a visitor finding it off the highway? Let me tell ya, as an occasional visitor, it isn't easy. It took a handful of times driving to the Masonic Temple (and the area around the Convention Center) before I was comfortable that I'd actually find it. And that's a shame.
Secondly;
Every single time I drive up to attend a Lodge in Seattle, my own or some other, I remind myself how very glad I am that our Masonic Temples are clustered in the northern part of the City. I can't imagine what it would be like if our Craft still worked in a downtown Seattle Temple.
I would say masonry is contaminated with apathy, 3 generations of men who forgot what it was like to build or feel the need for a community. From a rural community standpoint: communities who were once full of business owners, who could contribute financially, rather full of wage earners who funnel what used to be community wealth to centralized corporations and shareholders (Amazons and Walmarts). Gone are the days of the grocery store owners, the Bank owners, and etc. At one time wealth and the circulation of commerce stayed in a community. Today every thing commercial has been centralized, money wealth and influence leave the community. I've been thinking of late, perhaps the need for support groups, burial insurance, health policies, old peoples homes, orphanages and hospitals; which drove people to participate in civic organizations and religious support groups as a requirement was not such a bad thing. It invested people in their own fate and community. Today Wealth flows out of a community, and support demands are filled by a state and federal budget. Participation and cooperation isn't required any more to keep one's self insured. Thus the fall of the fraternal order and society proceeded with out notice. This to me was at the heart of the fraternal boom in the early part of the 20th century. Mutual Benefit.
Your points about wealth staying within a community are well taken. For my entire life I banked at a small, locally owned bank. But it, as with so many others, was absorbed by a massive competitor during the last banking crisis. And now, there are virtually no locally owned banks left. The same with newspapers. They used to be owned by people who lived in the communities they served. But then most got bought up by huge newspaper companies and the few that haven't been shut down are shadows of their former selves. This seems to have taken over just about everything in our business communities, fueled by our own consumer spending patterns.
But, I have to wonder if we have reached a peak? Will this get better?
I read this yesterday, I imagine that you might find it of interest:
And if it is true that creatives will win by thinking small, and I think there is lots of evidence pointing to that, might Freemasonry win by thinking small again?
By thinking small, I don't mean by not doing daring things and aspiring to greatness, I do mean an intense focus on what Freemasonry is at its core. Letting the superstructure fade away.
I love this comment. "If I wanted to pinpoint the moment when Sears started to crumble, I’d cite September 9, 1973—the day the company bosses started moving into the tallest tower on the planet. In the new world order, the execs in the looming towers think they control everything they see below. But they are kidding themselves. The real power is now on the ground level."
It echos my statement on radio shack the other day. "like many stores that go out of business they forgot what got them there and abandoned their core customer. Choosing instead chasing quarterly stock price gains instead of a sustainable business model. All profit goes to the shareholders killed many a business. Nascar, Sears, Kmart, Family Dollar, or anything Carl Ichan touches, circuit city, block buster, toys are us... etc all for quarterly gains over expanded lost their focus and lost their customer base." Perhaps freemasonry forgot its value along the way and were living in the net result. Empty shells of buildings that we can barely afford following the collapse of the "club movement".
Your comment deserves a more thoughtful reply, and I'll compose one, but for now, Radio Shack jumps out at me.
I need a Radio Shack!
Mrs. Bailey and I want a radio for the house. Not a stereo, not a fancy thing, just a plain old single speaker AM-FM radio. For emergencies. (Our little City, not our specific house, but most of the City suffers massive flooding from time to time.) Our old one died.
Back when there was Radio Shack, one could go and listen to all the Radios and talk to a person who knew about the things. Now I'd have to buy one online without actually knowing how well it will fit my extremely limited, but vital needs.
My favorite thing to do to a new mason, show them the masonic library, point to it and say this is evidence that we're more than a club. This is our substance, on the bookshelf and its up to you to enjoy it.
I have often wondered why or or how previous generations were able to build amazing buildings, even when towns were first being founded. But Masonry is not the only example. There is a well thought out and written article here:
It could also be understood as a new mythology, is you view the story from a masonic perspective. "As the 'keepers of geometry,' architects are responsible for giving form and shape to the world around us."
With this said, and as the steps laid out on the link above I posted, there are 33 reasons. Just as we have 33 degrees below the "Architecture of the Universe," should we not think higher as becoming the Architect?
I think that very often our thoughts and concerns as Masons today are primarily focused on the profane. Our building, our finances, Grand Lodge dictates, organized charitable endeavors, and all the rest.
Seldom are our thoughts on the sacred. Giving that initiate our full attention, a full spiritual initiatory experience. Supporting him after it.
Ultimately, that's where it all has to start. Until that is right, how can everything else be right?
Sadly, we had to sell and move from a large, elegant stone building built in the 1920's, on a corner where a Masonic Lodge had sat since the late 1700's, in the core of downtown Halifax in Nova Scotia nearly 15 years ago. In part due to the city's rapid growth and lack of available parking and being on a hill older Brothers struggled with in winter. The old Catholic church we moved to is nice and we did a lot to renovate and it works well with character. Perhaps too, it is the decline of membership. At the time of the founding of our order, we met in pubs. Hopefully we don't end up back there. I think a sort of Renaissance for Masonry is ahead. Society has changed a lot since those heady days of the Craft.
I too believe that a Renaissance for Freemasonry is ahead. Honestly, in my Jurisdiction I already see that Renaissance happening in a handful of Lodges. Not a lot, but that handful are truly thriving.
But, I don't know if the governing superstructure of Freemasonry will experience that Renaissance or indeed survive. Nor do I think that it must survive. At some point, if some small minority of Lodges are truly thriving, while the majority are not, I wonder if those that are will begin questioning if the superstructure is needed. I could well see a Lodge someday saying (if I might quote ol' Eric Cartman) "Screw you guys, I'm going home." and striking out on their own.
To be clear, I don't want to see that happen, but I think it could happen. And if it did happen, Freemasonry would survive. It survived for a long time prior to the creation of our governing structures beyond the Lodge.
I read this with interest as I have been researching Albert Hudson Royds of Rochdale for some years. He built a temple in memory of his late father to the exact dimensions of Solomon’s Temple, and there are so many so-called coincidences that I cannot ignore them.
He’s named after the river in New York but doesn’t seem to have visited the city, and he was also born on 9/11
That’s just a couple of the odd connections I’ve found. Perhaps you would be interested to hear more?
I have unfortunately lost quite a bit of my research, but will spend a few days recapping this week and hopefully bring you something of interest by the end of the weekend!
I think the audacity arose from swelled bank accounts generated by the huge membership. It was less attitude and more “Where are we going to put all this money?” There were fewer ways to invest a hundred years ago, and no FDIC.
Jay
I can't fault your logic. I pulled out the Grand Lodge Proceedings for 1923 (the year the Centralia Masonic Temple was opened) and see it reported that we had 40,500 Masons in Washington State. Today we have 8,222.
1 dollar in 1923 was equivalent to 18.27 dollars today.
In 1923, the Grand Lodge fee raised 104,652.75. In 2024 it raised 701,560.61.
Most concerning is that the average age of the 8,222 Master Masons in my Jurisdiction is 68.52 years. Life expectancy for men in Washington State 76.9 years.
So, we have a dollar problem, and a membership problem, and an age problem.
But are these things the symptoms or the cause? That's what I have to wonder.
Your thoughts immediately reminded me of "Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith" by The Knights of the North. Here is the introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdNDOLHeMC8 and here is the entire document if you haven't read it. http://www.knightsofthenorth.com/documents/LaudablePursuitFinal.pdf
This was written in 2004 and yet here we are.
We did a 15 part and 11 addendum series on Whither are we Traveling, a great reminder of where we are, where we have been and where we are going without change:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa5WoF4sji5b0H-ghNYiWexbqaKuPfVY-&si=WMF18bTSZ3s_z65s
Thanks David, I have subscribed and will begin to watch. I look forward to hearing the analysis.
Thank you VW! I have added this playlist link to our Chat.
Thank you for sharing these links here. I read The Laudable Pursuit for the first time very early in my Masonic career, I imagine I found it on Chris Hodapp's site but can't remember for certain.
In the intervening years I've read it multiple times, and I have tried to incorporate its points into what I do.
I would encourage everyone to read it.
For me it leads back to some of my concerns about the future of modern masonry where we have year after year cheapened it out on it. I see so many lodges propped up by 5 or 6 dedicated brothers who work tirelessly that by the time they can step back and be proud of there efforts something else has gone entirely wrong.
We used to build all these buildings and like you mention, now they are all cheap and what gets the job done, versus let build a monument to the craft in which we can be proud as workman in the quarries.
And yes some of these grandiose buildings have caused great hardship for our fraternity, but this leads into the cycle. We have all these amazing historical buildings around the Nation and more and more of them are being sold off. I wish we could stop treating masonry like a cheap endeavor and instead ourselves into it.
Like all of us, I paid my Masonic Dues recently. For the first time ever, I wrote them down as I paid them:
Four Lodges = $179 (This includes the Grand Lodge Dues, Two of these Four have given me a Life Membership, so figure the 179 is for 2.5 Lodges)
Scottish Rite Research Society = $60
Two Scottish Rite Valleys = $110
York Rite, Royal Arch, Royal and Select Masters, Knights Templar = $120
Shrine = $180
SRICF I paid earlier so didn't keep record, but I believe that it was = $90
My wife pays my OES Dues, but if memory serves it is = $15
Total dues = $754
To belong to 13 separate Masonic organizations. Six of which pay to own and maintain their own buildings.
This just isn't going to cut it. It's not enough money to keep all of these things going.
Dues need to be higher. Yes, $750 does seem like a lot, but we have to be honest with ourselves, most Masons don't pay anywhere near that amount. I'm just one of those crazy Masons who join every darn thing apparently.
Lodges particularly need to be charging much higher dues. If doing so harms membership in the Appendant/Concordant bodies, well, that is a price that must be paid. For those other bodies can not exist without our Craft Lodges, and our Craft Lodges can't survive at their current low dues levels.
Wonderful article!
After celebrating the 100th anniversary of our temple in Little Rock Saturday this really hits home.
Thank you RW Brother! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
And Congratulations on the 100th Anniversary!
Tradition is not worship of ashes but preservation of fire.
— Gustav Mahler
A big part of the problem is that these edifices to our craft were built smack dab in the center of most towns and cities.
After WW2 there was a mass migration of families abandoning the urban life for the suburbs. Then came the innovation of the mall - a giant structure that drew in businesses large and small away from the downtown core. This all contributed to urban decay of the inner cities.
Now, a lot of these buildings are located in, to put it bluntly, the not so nice part of town, where land values have plummeted. Not all, mind you. A nearby lodge was located on prime waterfront real estate in a bustling small town that had decent tourist appeal. They eventually were able to sell the building for a quite princely sum and rebuild elsewhere where with a tidy nest egg left over.
But my own building is over 100 years old right in the middle of an area filled with dilapidated and abandoned buildings, homeless drug addicts, graffiti, and crime. Selling the building would be difficult and as the building was purposely built as a masonic temple, mostly useless to investors. Because of it's size and age, needed repairs are onerous. As with many other buildings of it's type, it's more of an albatross to the members who meet there. As an added bonus, the politicians in Olympia decided to outlaw natural gas use. The building is heated by natural gas, and replacing the furnace (which is still the original furnace, that had been converted from coal to natural gas decades ago) will cost the temple board tens of thousands of dollars, money it doesn't really have.
There are no easy answers to the problems we face as a fraternity.
Your comment brings two thoughts to mind:
Many years ago now, I was just a regular visitor to the City in which I now live. I lived far to the north of here, but would often drag the Airstream down I-5 to the Oregon Coast. I never liked driving too far in a day, so when doing so, I'd spend the night in a nice RV park in Centralia, making the trip to the coast a two day journey.
The thing was, I never knew that there was a nice, historic, downtown here. There were no signs or anything pointing it out to visitors. For years I thought that this City was just the junk out by the freeway, and had no idea that this cool downtown existed.
I didn't discover that there was anything other than the stuff out by the freeway until a friend died and her funeral took place here.
That's changing now, recently. We have a vibrant and involved Downtown Association now, and the City has put up some way finder signs leading to the downtown from the freeway, so things are improving.
But, a downtown can't survive unless visitors can find it. That's the only way to get them to spend their money in it. City leaders can't let the stuff along the freeways and highways be all that they see.
And, I think that Bremerton's downtown is similar. It's kind of cool down there, and there are good restaurants and the like down there. But a visitor finding it off the highway? Let me tell ya, as an occasional visitor, it isn't easy. It took a handful of times driving to the Masonic Temple (and the area around the Convention Center) before I was comfortable that I'd actually find it. And that's a shame.
Secondly;
Every single time I drive up to attend a Lodge in Seattle, my own or some other, I remind myself how very glad I am that our Masonic Temples are clustered in the northern part of the City. I can't imagine what it would be like if our Craft still worked in a downtown Seattle Temple.
I would say masonry is contaminated with apathy, 3 generations of men who forgot what it was like to build or feel the need for a community. From a rural community standpoint: communities who were once full of business owners, who could contribute financially, rather full of wage earners who funnel what used to be community wealth to centralized corporations and shareholders (Amazons and Walmarts). Gone are the days of the grocery store owners, the Bank owners, and etc. At one time wealth and the circulation of commerce stayed in a community. Today every thing commercial has been centralized, money wealth and influence leave the community. I've been thinking of late, perhaps the need for support groups, burial insurance, health policies, old peoples homes, orphanages and hospitals; which drove people to participate in civic organizations and religious support groups as a requirement was not such a bad thing. It invested people in their own fate and community. Today Wealth flows out of a community, and support demands are filled by a state and federal budget. Participation and cooperation isn't required any more to keep one's self insured. Thus the fall of the fraternal order and society proceeded with out notice. This to me was at the heart of the fraternal boom in the early part of the 20th century. Mutual Benefit.
Your points about wealth staying within a community are well taken. For my entire life I banked at a small, locally owned bank. But it, as with so many others, was absorbed by a massive competitor during the last banking crisis. And now, there are virtually no locally owned banks left. The same with newspapers. They used to be owned by people who lived in the communities they served. But then most got bought up by huge newspaper companies and the few that haven't been shut down are shadows of their former selves. This seems to have taken over just about everything in our business communities, fueled by our own consumer spending patterns.
But, I have to wonder if we have reached a peak? Will this get better?
I read this yesterday, I imagine that you might find it of interest:
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-creatives-will-win-by-thinking
And if it is true that creatives will win by thinking small, and I think there is lots of evidence pointing to that, might Freemasonry win by thinking small again?
By thinking small, I don't mean by not doing daring things and aspiring to greatness, I do mean an intense focus on what Freemasonry is at its core. Letting the superstructure fade away.
I love this comment. "If I wanted to pinpoint the moment when Sears started to crumble, I’d cite September 9, 1973—the day the company bosses started moving into the tallest tower on the planet. In the new world order, the execs in the looming towers think they control everything they see below. But they are kidding themselves. The real power is now on the ground level."
It echos my statement on radio shack the other day. "like many stores that go out of business they forgot what got them there and abandoned their core customer. Choosing instead chasing quarterly stock price gains instead of a sustainable business model. All profit goes to the shareholders killed many a business. Nascar, Sears, Kmart, Family Dollar, or anything Carl Ichan touches, circuit city, block buster, toys are us... etc all for quarterly gains over expanded lost their focus and lost their customer base." Perhaps freemasonry forgot its value along the way and were living in the net result. Empty shells of buildings that we can barely afford following the collapse of the "club movement".
Your comment deserves a more thoughtful reply, and I'll compose one, but for now, Radio Shack jumps out at me.
I need a Radio Shack!
Mrs. Bailey and I want a radio for the house. Not a stereo, not a fancy thing, just a plain old single speaker AM-FM radio. For emergencies. (Our little City, not our specific house, but most of the City suffers massive flooding from time to time.) Our old one died.
Back when there was Radio Shack, one could go and listen to all the Radios and talk to a person who knew about the things. Now I'd have to buy one online without actually knowing how well it will fit my extremely limited, but vital needs.
Give me Radio Shack back!
I think that in a lot of Lodges, the way of Freemasonry was forgotten.
If you strip everything away, good Men become Masons and remain as active Masons for only two reasons:
-To learn about Freemasonry
-To practice Freemasonry
Those are the two things that can only be found within Freemasonry. They are the only thing that sets us apart from the rest of the world.
If we don't provide opportunity to do those two things, then we are at core, nothing at all.
correct.
My favorite thing to do to a new mason, show them the masonic library, point to it and say this is evidence that we're more than a club. This is our substance, on the bookshelf and its up to you to enjoy it.
I have often wondered why or or how previous generations were able to build amazing buildings, even when towns were first being founded. But Masonry is not the only example. There is a well thought out and written article here:
https://www.constructingarchitect.com/33-reasons-why-are-architects-important/#:~:text=As%20the%20%E2%80%9Ckeepers%20of%20geometry,the%20environments%20we%20live%20in
It could also be understood as a new mythology, is you view the story from a masonic perspective. "As the 'keepers of geometry,' architects are responsible for giving form and shape to the world around us."
With this said, and as the steps laid out on the link above I posted, there are 33 reasons. Just as we have 33 degrees below the "Architecture of the Universe," should we not think higher as becoming the Architect?
I think that very often our thoughts and concerns as Masons today are primarily focused on the profane. Our building, our finances, Grand Lodge dictates, organized charitable endeavors, and all the rest.
Seldom are our thoughts on the sacred. Giving that initiate our full attention, a full spiritual initiatory experience. Supporting him after it.
Ultimately, that's where it all has to start. Until that is right, how can everything else be right?
Thank you for posting this article, I enjoyed reading it. And yeah, I too caught that line!
Sadly, we had to sell and move from a large, elegant stone building built in the 1920's, on a corner where a Masonic Lodge had sat since the late 1700's, in the core of downtown Halifax in Nova Scotia nearly 15 years ago. In part due to the city's rapid growth and lack of available parking and being on a hill older Brothers struggled with in winter. The old Catholic church we moved to is nice and we did a lot to renovate and it works well with character. Perhaps too, it is the decline of membership. At the time of the founding of our order, we met in pubs. Hopefully we don't end up back there. I think a sort of Renaissance for Masonry is ahead. Society has changed a lot since those heady days of the Craft.
I too believe that a Renaissance for Freemasonry is ahead. Honestly, in my Jurisdiction I already see that Renaissance happening in a handful of Lodges. Not a lot, but that handful are truly thriving.
But, I don't know if the governing superstructure of Freemasonry will experience that Renaissance or indeed survive. Nor do I think that it must survive. At some point, if some small minority of Lodges are truly thriving, while the majority are not, I wonder if those that are will begin questioning if the superstructure is needed. I could well see a Lodge someday saying (if I might quote ol' Eric Cartman) "Screw you guys, I'm going home." and striking out on their own.
To be clear, I don't want to see that happen, but I think it could happen. And if it did happen, Freemasonry would survive. It survived for a long time prior to the creation of our governing structures beyond the Lodge.
I read this with interest as I have been researching Albert Hudson Royds of Rochdale for some years. He built a temple in memory of his late father to the exact dimensions of Solomon’s Temple, and there are so many so-called coincidences that I cannot ignore them.
He’s named after the river in New York but doesn’t seem to have visited the city, and he was also born on 9/11
That’s just a couple of the odd connections I’ve found. Perhaps you would be interested to hear more?
He sounds like a really interesting man, Mason, and UGLE Provincial Grand Master. I would indeed be interested in learning more about him!
I have unfortunately lost quite a bit of my research, but will spend a few days recapping this week and hopefully bring you something of interest by the end of the weekend!
Awesome!