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Good morning Tina and others on the net. I'm speaking to you with the Raspy Voice today from Coal Canyon, Arizona where we're experiencing a cool front. We're only going to get up to about 100 today. Tomorrow we'll be back up in the 105-108 area again. I mentioned the Raspy Voice because yesterday I'm a member of the Superstition Amateur Radio Club, which is a fairly large club. There are many clubs in the Phoenix Valley. I just kind of randomly pick this one because they're meetings where they're closest to me even though it still takes 45 minutes to get there. They have about 225 members. A typical meeting is maybe 50 or 60 people showing up. Yesterday at the Oregon Pizza place, which is a museum for the antique organ, I'll mention that a little bit more, was the Amateur Radio Club annual meeting to recognize the volunteers and the members and the achievements and giving certificates and awards and recognitions and shaking hands and all that kind of stuff. It was closed to the public. It was a closed meeting for the Superstition ARC. It was the first time for me to be there. I was especially interested because it was being held at a building that was made especially for a war literature organ that was built in the 1920s and used in New York back in the time when the cinema industry, all the movies were silent. Theater organs were used to provide some audio during the silent movies. Anyway, this organ was used in the purpose of New York. I don't know what city or etc. Then a special building was built for it and it was moved here in the 1970s. I'm not sure. It has to be a special building because of all the air pumps and the pipes. I don't know how many, 25,000 pipes or whatever. It's a huge building. I'm glad I went. They also serve pizza. It was a lot of fun. I'm glad I went with one exception. I'm speaking with a raspy voice because nearby was a lady who was coughing and wheezing. During the night, I guess, I kind of took it to a halt. I'm going to break for a second.