let's deal with what we know and what the factors are and what people think the fix may be. i'll tell you this now, this is something that's going to haunt us through the holidays. remember that. this will only get worse between now and the holidays. so if you want to shop for christmas, i would do it sooner rather than later. 40% of all the shipping containers that come into this country come in through those two ports. that's why they're doing this. they get another 60 hours of operation just this year. hopefully that will help with the backlog of more than 50 ships that are waiting to dock. but when we talk about the blob or the supply chain, there are many links. and you know what they say about change, right? only as strong as the weakest link. forecasts for home heating just came out. why are they going up? because everything will that needs to be produced or