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KI5SSR and KM5Y in the litter box lounge net. Here is KL7FR still on vacation in Willow, Alaska. But I gotta say, great net tonight. I heard it through the grapevine. Some good gossip in here. I'm not real big on gossip, but the gossip tonight is people talking about themselves instead of other people. And it's pretty interesting to learn about our fellow netizens, people that we hear regularly. A lot of times we don't dive into that, so I think that's a great topic. And boy, don't get me started talking about Alaska, because I talk for hours. Like I said, I'm on vacation. Been on vacation here for 45 years. But I'll try to keep it short. I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was pretty good. Barely normal, middle class, suburban type childhood. But I always loved getting out of the city, loved going up to the farm country. We had relatives and friends with farms just north of Minneapolis. So we spent some time in farm country. But I really loved going up to the North Woods, northern Minnesota, and Canada, Manitoba, Canada. Oh man, and I always wanted to go to Alaska. So I lived in Minneapolis until right before my senior year in high school. My dad got a job down in Missouri. And bought a house down there, sold a house in Minnesota, and we moved. I didn't have no choice. I wasn't very happy. So I was planning on going back up to Minnesota right after I graduated from high school. And right after graduation day, my uncle called from Alaska and asked if I wanted to come up and go on a fishing trip, do some sport fishing for salmon, trout, halibut. And I said, heck yeah, I've always wanted to go to Alaska. I'd better pause for a reset. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November. This is star note 6222. Okay, all seven have our returns. So anyway, a couple weeks after graduation, I flew from Mayhop with me and my dad, went up to Minnesota, and I visited friends and relatives up there a bit. And then flew to Anchorage through Seattle. After Portland, then Seattle, but we flew by that Mount St. Helens volcano that had just erupted. It was probably two weeks after the second eruption, but got a good view of that. It was amazing to see that big smoking hole in the ground. It was still smoking. But I got to Alaska for my two-week fishing trip. Next day I went to the Reston River and got my first salmon and I was hooked. By the end of that week I got a job in the Forest Service and I got to travel around to various remote sites and fish all over south central Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula. And I was hooked. Then I moved to Fairbanks for a few years and I got a job with an engineering and surveying company. I got to go out and work in some remote villages and even more remote sites than that, getting out in the wilderness. So it was just a blast. I couldn't believe I was getting paid to do it. So I was loving that. But I like the village lifestyle and one day I'm positive for a reset.