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Alright, I'll draw the line there. I'll turn on my little recorder here. I've got a bit of a reach there. Because it's the first person I'm going to check in. And this is a mid 19th century familiar 88 to both my brother Clay and my sister Reiji. I've got an extra 33 for Reiji. Clay G4 OZW, this is your sister KX2 CW. Please give us your reach. KX2 CW on the net, this is KG4 OZW and Reiji. And boy what a topic. I'm thinking of all my pets that have gone. Our furry four legged friends of the past. And we have two healthy ones now Skye and Blaze. Skye is 13, she's getting up there. And Blaze is 10. And they're both extremely healthy. You wouldn't think that Skye was 13. She acts like a puppy. Although sometimes we wonder if she's whining because she has arthritis. She was walking a little stiff the other day. So it's like oh no, starting to see signs. And Anakas was the last one that we lost. Although he wasn't euthanized. He died on his own. And it's been kind of a rough one. But yeah the topic makes me sad just thinking of the ones that we've lost over the years. And just happy for the ones that we still have and the love that they provide. And Skye is laying in her chair right now just kind of looking up at me. Probably wonders why I'm talking about her. Anyway, nothing really to report other than that. And just say hello to everyone. Hearing some familiar faces and some not so familiar ones tonight. But it's good to hear everyone in there. And hope everyone is having a good time. And we'll let it go back. Turn it back over to net control KX2CW. This is KG40Z. Rachie saying 73. Good night. Well thank you for that report. And Rachie it's good to hear you on the air. Jack who is in charge of us, you know, net control operators, has mentioned, has told me that he loves hearing you say things. Jack has sent me a message. Rachie report! Question mark, question mark, question mark. See Jack, Rachie did say hi and a few words on the air. So Rachie I just wanted you to know that many of us love to hear you when you have something to say on the radio. And let's see, Skye is 13. I didn't know the pages of your pets. And Blaze 10. And I think I remember when Abacus, I guess didn't come home. Oh no, Sean is also messaging me. See here folks, it's almost like having an IRC back channel. In this case it's on F-Center. Okay that's about the little light. Oh the critters subject. Yeah, Sean just messaged me that, uh, yeah, made some additional comments to me about the critters. Yes, we all, I think, pretty much every operator, well not every operator, I'm ready to, oh! Abacus was only 9, Clay has just mentioned. Anyway, um, I'm going to move on. I'm trying to read my writing, because I don't have enough light here. Yeah, so I'm going to move on. And Mike, um, writing things down, Mike, please give us your report. Semantics, is yours FLUDDER QRM or QRN? Don't think about it too much. Let's see, what else is there to think about? Um, my keys lost. They were in my jeans. And, um, when I got home. From, let's see, oh yeah, I got three bottles of kombucha at the Ballard Market for tomorrow's big night. The Lutheran Church with the grilled salmon. And I hope, I'll think of calling the minister at Title 8 on that for, to see if he's going to, probably, how you would think he'd be inspired to set that up in the basement. And have big band, big band, make only a big band with, Tom Rankin's in there, in fact, from the other church that I go to. He's in that group and he practices in the basement every week and I think that maybe this should go in there and practice. With us in there having our grilled salmon picnic potluck, and a step outside. And a big band playing on the east lawn back there. And the village, you can hear them just fine from, what, two blocks away from the center of the village. You know, there's usually a crowd outside the, filling around all day at the French Bakery, which is, you know, about 150 feet from the Greek restaurant. Yeah. I like the village and Lutheran Church and picnic tomorrow and in a couple more weeks the traffic will clear up and it will get more people from out the suburbs back to church. Just in time for homecoming, you know, September. Okay, so you, just, you know, I'm glad I found my keys with air-containing and there's one on my radio and one on my keys. And the key is to get to this radio. In my car this evening. Thanks, John. 7388. You know, 986. 21. Bye. KG7-3EU. Yes. The Phillips Code, which is funny, almost all of them are about commerce, but they slipped in two or three, yeah, three or more. Actually there's some more, but it's just really originally just a couple of personal messages, messages, messages that were not having to do with the business of, you know, goods and getting moved around the railroad and those are, of course, 7-3, a friendly, originally a friendly word between operators and at 8-8, which is, far predates the tribulations of the 20th century and certainly the 21st century. But in the mid-19th century that was the Phillips Code that operators who were, you know, family members usually would sneak that in and, because remember during the Civil War, the American Civil War, there were wives and daughters and other members of the family who were actually manning the wired telegraph system in many cases. Part of that, the hidden figures of the Civil War. So, let's see, moving right along here. Oh yeah, and then of course our dad stayed in a big band. And she got the Days of Morning big band, their pop star big band. But my brother Mark also formed the 33rd Street Band in Kalamazoo and they were popular gigging Chicago Tribute Band, you could call them, for about 10 years, from which he has tinnitus now. Alright, let's see, next up is Troy. Troy, please give us your report. Good evening, the rest of the net, this is K7 TMT and I am worn out, first of all, I'm still fighting off that nasty infection. I've got one more day, tomorrow was the main biotic and been spending quite a bit of time working out in the pool today, the day before. Tomorrow's going to be tortured, so I have my sister coming over and we're going to spend the day in the pool and we're going to barbeque. And also, I have some friends coming over from Worldcon, they're up here for that. And so, KS6MIX, she's a good friend of mine, said we used to do all the conventions, we actioned the dates. Like Cactuscon, Worldcon, Comiccon, because we're living in San Diego, as well as Westerncons and different things like that. It'll be great to see him again, him and my sister are actually going to go to Worldcon together. That will be fun because I haven't seen him in some odd, almost 30 years now, so it'll be great catching up with him. Maybe play a little radio while he's over here, who knows. And going to spend a little bit more time doing what we do. So, that's all I have for tonight, I'll send it back to you, Joe. P-17, please. Alright, Troy. I'm sorry about your, getting wiped out by antibiotics. But, you know, you'd rather be worn out than dead, so there's always that considered. And congratulations on meeting up again after 30 years, I can totally relate to that, I haven't seen my own family. I did finally get to, earlier this year I did finally fly to Kalamazoo and I got to see my brother Mark and Sister Kim and their kids. Because yet another one of them is getting married. And so I've just friended my new niece on Facebook when that appeared. I don't, I don't, I ignore almost all friend requests. I'm sorry if I know you in real life, I don't need to know you on Facebook. But when it comes to my new niece, I've only met for a few days and probably wouldn't see her for years. That's when I decide to, you know, friend someone on Facebook. But anyway, let's see, where am I going with this, I'm blathering. But I can relate, personally relate to your situation because I have not seen anyone else in my family for at least 25 years, probably longer than that. And some that I've never met, you know, I've never met, um, Rachie, Clay's wife. And I'm like, you know, that's, uh, I'm going to snap out of it. Okay, so, uh, Peter was, uh, K, uh, Peter K-E-6-R-A-X is an I-O. And it brings us to Charlie, KC2, uh, ST-O, uh, New Jersey. Please give us the report.