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All right, we got AV-1AI. Brian, good morning to you, Brian. Thanks for listening there in the background. A lot of people listen in the background. And it's always a pleasure to know you're out there. Glad that we're able to fill in some empty space for you. And happy when you get the opportunity to check in, even if it's not today. We so appreciate you out there. All right, so with that, we will go back to the top of the list. We got Kevin, VA3KKY. You'll have to let me know if I'm being a little bit quiet, because I've got my microphone right next to my mouth. I'm trying to be quiet so I don't wake up my wife or me. But it sounds like I'm doing OK with that. And having the microphone headset that I have sounds like or is a great opportunity to be quiet but still be heard. So Kevin, VA3KKY. You still with us out there? Go ahead. And I know you're dealing with your dad now. Are you guys moving towards putting him in an assisted living place and you getting your own place? Are you guys sticking it out at the house you were living in? Honestly, I think everyone's sitting on their hands for that. I don't think anyone's rushing for that. And I'm glad I'm not rushing either. Honestly, I hope I kick off first before I have to deal with most of it, which probably won't happen. The more I say that, the more I'm convinced I'll be like hundreds of years old. I'll watch everyone else go. That's the whole point of getting old is you watch your friends die. And it's like too late to make new friends. It's how it really goes. It really is. My dad, one of the indications is he's lost a lot of his checker buddies. He's lost a lot of his dice buddies. He used to always call, see if there's any extra legs around tonight for dice. Because we need three or four legs for dice. So that's pretty much gone. That's pretty much shot out of the water. So you lose everybody you know. As far as now earlier, I thought I heard you ask if you know something about talking to your parents about stuff. I don't know if you went right now to them about the birds and bees and nature and stuff. I never talked to them about any such thing. Never at all. In fact, I just kept all my personal stuff out of my mom's way. She was a gossip ho. So there's no way. And even when dad was in good condition, I don't know. He was too much of a joker for me to really want to bring any serious things to the table with him. I mean, he could be serious when our mom made him. So that was kind of a deal there. He didn't exactly have tough structure or tough holes in the first place. So that was at least good. But yeah, nowadays, I have no idea. I mean, we're getting closer and closer to pretty much launching off reality. But I don't really know. I guess if I was to keep up with him and have bridge friends or dice friends or whatever, I'd probably have to start making them. Because see, I have such a cut-off point from people at any school I went to that I just broke away from them. So I wouldn't know if they're dead or alive. Like a lot of people say that they join various different social media things like Facebook and that, and they find their school friends. I'm often not really recognized a lot of them. They were static when I got away from the Ontario School of the Blind. I hated them all. I maybe not have hated every student. Let's not totally exaggerate. I think I hated staff. And I based it on user base. It was easy for me to say, screw all of this. So if there's a chance, I might have forgotten. Just like now, there's been various neighborhood schools I went to. And I definitely lost track of a lot of them. I'd almost have to start making new those kind of events. And it just doesn't really work the same way when you're older, right? It's kind of like my dad's in that position where he's almost 100. He ain't hanging around 26-year-olds. You know what I mean? It just doesn't happen. And so I'm almost 50. I ain't hanging around 20-year-olds. You think about it, right? When we was kids, we'd wait until those mugs left the room, right? Like, serious business didn't start until they left the room. It's like, get your ass out of here, old man. We want to get high and be stupid. You're in the way. You're a little bit too mature for those things, right? I almost think of LL when he'd say, my old Jew teacher's not supposed to rap. He said that to Dis Iced Tea. But anyway, it's like he was on this whole F elders kind of thing. But that's how kids are, right? So it's like I'm getting with no 26-year-olds. I don't even know any place to go where that even happens. So you can't make new friends unless you're on the ham radio. And then you can lie because they can't see you. I don't know. All right. OK, I'll let someone else talk. I don't know what to talk about, but I always talk about a lot. I don't say much, but I talk a lot. So OK, back to you, Bill. This is the 8th week, KKY in Toronto. This is repeater station kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All sorry, no news. Kevin, the question that I had asked earlier was if you had to have that talk with your parents about moving out of their house. And if you had to move out of their house, you could have gone into some kind of an assisted living or something where they would have people being able to take care of them. But that's all right because it's just a question in case anybody wanted something to think about or talk about. And if you've got something else more interesting to talk about, then that's what we want to hear because the thing that people are most interested in. And if you're passionate about something, then it's never boring. So with that, we have a late-minute edition. We have Steve, N0BF, who's in Buffalo, New York. I thought he had gone out to Buffalo and he had gone back to Colorado because I knew he was in Ohio the other day. But apparently he's back in Buffalo. So he's still on, well, he's always on vacation. But he is not at home in Colorado. So Steve, N0BF, how are you doing and how is the trip? This is N0BF on the cell phone, iPhone 16, in Buffalo, New York. OK, well, it's a little confusing. And every time I explain the trip, it gets more confusing. Anyway, long story short, we came out each on the train and today we're going to head back on the train to Colorado. So that's the long and short of it. We've been zipping around in a car between here and Cleveland, Ohio. And there's another station between us and that's Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania. Had lunch there yesterday. So anyway, we ended up close with the Nye Air Falls, which is in the Canada area. We are all around. So anyway, we've been having fun out here and we bought a house. And so I'm going to be, my wife's not going to be moving to the Cleveland, Ohio area. You've probably been out here in a truck, I bet you. I don't know if you come out this far east or not. Anyway, I'm not sure that's, anyway, who knows? I feel, I know you get around a lot. Anyway, the questions about your parents, all that, I, that's a big one. I'll answer that later. But for now, I just wanted to say hi and bye. My wife, we're getting out for a walk and we'll come back. And then if you're still here, I'll check back in. But anyway, so that's the story. The train goes from here to Chicago tomorrow. And then tomorrow, the following day, we get to Colorado and Grand Central Station. So then I'll be heading to the town of Loveland where I live. All the facts about this, guys, anywhere in the world you can check in. This is N0PS. And I appreciate it very much, Bill. And I will listen for a bit until you go on a walk. It's N0PS. All right. Thank you, Steven. Yeah, I've been in that area a lot. My wife is from Binghamton, New York, which is at the junction of law 86 and 81. So that's where she grew up. And we lived back there. I started driving a truck when I was living back there. So a lot of time spent in that area. My terminal for the trucking company I worked for was in, well, it's in Syracuse now. Used to be in another town that is escaping my memory. But yep, know the area. So you enjoy your walk. And if you come back, just let me know. I'm trying to keep an eye on the chat box as well. And we'll get you back in there, Steve. But for now, I'll take you off the list. And we're going to go to George, KV0MAI. Hopefully he's still there. It's been a while since we've been around. But George, if you're still there, it's over to you. Oh, yeah. My turn. OK, gotcha. Gotcha. Oh, I have your KV0PSF sitting out on the back porch with me. And we were looking at what's going on out here. I got a bird feeder and a bird bath out here. And it's starting to get active again finally. We went on vacation for two weeks. Asked the kids to fill up the bird bath every other day and give them bird seed. They didn't. And that chased all the birds away. And then when I got back, I got back into the routine of everything. And it took about three weeks, I guess, before we started seeing birds again. Today, we've got lots of squirrels down there trying to eat the seed off the grass that the birds stung down. And we had four or five birds there and a couple of squirrels. They cut it ice. I like watching them when I'm out here. I'd like to do one more thing. I'd like to get out one of them hummingbird feeders and put it on the porch. And so I'd have to take care of the hummingbirds too. But it's just nice to have. My goal is eventually get enough birds that want to come around that I can do a little bit of bird photography. But we'll have to wait and see. And there goes my dog. Reset. We've got a quick, funny story for you. Now, as you guys know, I have a chihuahua. And my daughter has a chihuahua. And they wind up living here more than anything else. So we usually have two chihuahuas. My son went on a trip. And he brought over his American Eskimo to my daughter. And somehow, it got him over to our house. Somehow, we have an American Eskimo. But this dog is extremely strange. It trusts everybody and anybody except me. And it will not go near me. It'll come up and let me, you know, I can hand him a treat or something like that. But cannot let her, she won't let me pet her or anything else. So last night, my wife decided to go with my grandson and daughter to a swimming pool. And I was left alone with this dog. Now, my goodness, this dog is like a dog. Now, my goodness, this dog is like two years old. And not once does he trust me. But when they left, about 20 minutes later, I got out of my chair to go get something. And she walked up to me. And I bent over. And I was expecting her to run like usual. And instead, she allowed me to pet her. A couple of times, she did that while they were gone. And she looked at me like, you're the only one left. So I guess I have to trust you. But she had that eye of, oh, I'm just waiting for you to do something bad to me, which I've never done a damn thing bad to her at all. I mean, there's nothing to give her treats and try to play ball with her, this, that, and the other. But so I don't know what her problem is. But I had a breakthrough last night until my wife got home. And now she won't trust me again at all. She shies away from me completely. Anyways, back to neck control, KB0MAI.