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Okay, I'll stop there. Go back to the top to the IO from KB7SDM, Ryan. Thank you for stopping by. And now, Derek Monroe. I know I could write your call sign down, but I'm going to wait for you to say it again before I actually fill it in because it's a formal way of doing it. So Derek Monroe and Amy Prime is somewhere around there, I'm assuming still. So please give us your report. One of the goals you've been doing and the net is to get the UX Derek out here in Monroe. And yes, Amy Prime, she's inside right now. I'm not sure what she's doing. I am outside roasting coffee and have not been on the radio much this summer. I have been out and about quite a bit. According to my, I've been doing one of off-road exploring. And so according to my, and by off-road, I don't mean necessarily strictly off-road, but more Forest Service roads, some true off-road, some trails, things like that. According to my app, last I checked, I had driven close to 600 miles off-road. We put another 10,000 feet in the north, and west of Lake Wenatchee out in the woods there. And yeah, that's kind of what I've been up to. Tonight I'm just roasting coffee. And if I'm out roasting coffee and it is your net, as it often is, I always seem to run out on Monday or Tuesday, and I like to try and check in if I can. So everyone's doing well. I'll keep my computer off, keep it up there with my grandparents in Europe right now, and talk about the engine and the rain checks. I don't like to share too much detail about my kids. But that is an exciting thing that I'm sure they want everybody to know about their first trip to Europe, first trip really anywhere outside of the US or Canada. So I'm happy for them. And that's all I've got. It's 7UX. Back to net. Well, I agree that it's probably quite prudent to not give out too many details about your children. But I find this the first trip to the EU, to Europe. And what about the road from the hills down here? Oh, yes, roasting coffee. I used to do that with a former partner, whose name I won't necessarily mention, quite some time ago in the early 80s. And she was a good influence on me because I just had come back from Italy, Italia in the Navy, where I discovered real coffee. And Italians don't have the best coffee in Europe right now. They're kind of resting on their laurels. But at the time, I had only had upper Midwestern coffee. And I was like, wow, this is coffee. And then I came back to the land of no coffee in 1982. And then in 1988, so it was late 80s, I hooked up with this person. And she roasted her own green coffee beans. She ordered back then, mail order. Remember before the internet, folks? It was mail order. And she would roast it in our oven. And we had a little house together, an apartment. But I guess it was the whole building in the Hubble, Michigan, which is in the Quiron Peninsula, which is the Upper Peninsula's Upper Peninsula. And when she roasted the coffee, you could smell it for miles around. People would come over. There's a farmer who, whenever she roasted the coffee in the oven, he would drive his tractor to our house. And snow blow. With a big power take off, big triple water power take off snow blower on the back of his tractor. And he would snow blow our driveway. And then he'd get off the tractor, leave it idling, I think, and walk in, knock on the door. We were ready for him. He got to have some of the coffee. Oh, dear. So these are the things that go through my mind. And also 33 to 80 prime with radio wave. Thank you AF7UX, Derek Monroe for your report. All righty. Let's move right along. And Cody was my own. And that brings us to Brian, KE7KZH. Brian, please give us your report. Hey, good evening, Joan and the rest of the net, KE7KZH. Brian in Marysville. I don't have a heck of a lot to report. I actually went into the office today. I don't do that a heck of a lot. And officially, I'm almost resigned to not go into the office knowing that my company will have a return to office mandate starting in January. So for the next five months, I'm going to try to go in as little as possible knowing that I'll be forced back in. So I'm going to take advantage of what I can and not have to do a 41 mile trip each way into the office for as long as I can. Anyway, yeah, so I'm going to make the ice cream social. It sounded like a lot of fun yesterday. But I've got this gig coming up Saturday. And there's a bunch of music to learn plus converted law coming into town. And we just pitched getting the garage remodeled. So I got my office set up in there so I can work. Although I guess I won't matter as much once I have to go back into the office. But so it goes. Probably had something else fun to say. But I'll just send it back. Thanks for running into that, Joan. 88 to you, 33 to all, KV7, KZH, back set. Well, 88 to you and Jennifer, and a 33 to Jennifer. And yes, I remember you. Last night you were explaining some of the particulars of your gig. And as a television, I'm not gigging now. Not since I've been away just a little bit. But before I came to Seattle, I was actually getting paid gigs a couple of weeks and stuff. And I kind of dropped that. And I'm very occasional now. But I can relate to it. And I actually, I don't know of anyone else, but I enjoyed the details that you were going into when you gave your report last night. And what else did I write down here? I wrote this one a little much. Oh yeah, 41 miles one way trip to the office. You know? Well, let's use up more petroleum and coal, I guess. I think that's the idea. Never mind. I better stop. Take care, Brian. And I will see you eventually again. And by the time I see you, we'll have gone along here to beauty again. Who knows? I don't know. All right. Next on the list is Herb in Galveston, Texas, KF5WYB. This is your friend Joan, KX2CW, asking for you, Herb. Please tighten. Hello? Well, hello, friend Joan and everyone on the net. You were telling me, you mentioned your brother, but played in a Chicago tribute band, and that kind of brought back memories. I was in my high school band. I played baritone horn. I played trumpet and a lot of music. A lot of music we played in football season with Chicago. And I was always with a big band in Chicago. Never saw them in concert, but had the greatest hits CD. And I always liked those little tunes, like Beginnings, 25 to 64, 64, just you and me, Saturday in the park. And that just, they are just an awesome group. There's still church. There's a couple. There's two or three of their regional members that are still performing with them, which is cool. I've been trying to be a little less fit in here. They're actually trying to move around and do a little bit of organization around my house. It's a little slow going, but I've gotten a few things done. I've just got a lot of stuff. Mainly I got a lot of always trying to part them and actually need to sort through and figure out what I can do without. And that's a good spot, probably about 60% of what I can do without, but it's a little hard. It's sometimes a little hard to give up because you think you've got an extra wire, you've got an extra plug, a power cord. You think, well, I really don't need that. And all of a sudden you come across something that's really big. I think that power cord I got rid of would have been this big. But I'll just see how that power progresses. Beyond that, we've been having a spell of rain off and on, but it's been really hot. Thankfully, we haven't been dressed by any hurricanes this year or really serious tropical systems, and I hope it stays that way. But that's basically all I've got going. So that's all I've got tonight. Thanks for hosting the Net Show. And always good to hear from you, 73K. This is Houston Station, Nilo Q07, November, Quebec, November. All Star, Node 6222, located in Sheets, Washington. Well, fine business, Herb. And I'm trying to, again, I'm trying to, I don't have my strong reading glasses on. That's what's going on. I have got like just some like 1 and 1 half diopters on, which are good for like just reading off of a screen. But I'm trying to read my scribbles on a pencil and paper. And I tend to write really small. I'm like David Byrne. I found out that David Byrne also does that. He writes really small. So it can fit in double lines. In fact, basically, I've got regular college rule notebook paper that I score out as a log sheet. And I resort with some people to writing like two lines of text in one line. So you can imagine, and not even regular, like high school notebook paper, but the skinnier rule stuff. So that's what I'm trying to, but now I've got my 2 and 1 quarter diopter reading glasses on. Brother played. Oh, about my brother playing in a Chicago tribute band. Yeah, he plays strombo. And he's got a bachelor of music composition, a BFA in music composition. He started his band. And they played Chicago, mostly Chicago. And Chicago was difficult. They're not easy songs. He was scored out by hand.