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Alright, well, you look very sick because you look like you're getting miked. Thank you for the in and out. I am not Rickert, you team members, you cam radio experts. I am just not Rickert, but I'm working on it. My wife came in here and made me take some Richie Rich stuff. Yeah, I took him with Lucky. He gave me her Rich Kratz stuff, so. I had leftover tea from West Africa. You put your vitamin C packet in there. No, I didn't take the vitamin C packet. I need water for that, please. Nurse Kratz is on the prowl today. Is that the right word, Nurse Kratz? I know that ain't from somewhere and I can't remember where. I hope I'm using that correctly. My wife, she does not have time for sick people. She is very logical, maybe, dealing with sick people. You tell her you're sick, she loads you up with medicine and tells you not to come out of your room and tell you feel better. She's very, very, very adamant about it. So I'll be working and I guess doing everything in my room and telling her to feel better. Secretly, I like that because, you know, my room is my comfort place. Okay, well, that brings us to the bottom of the list. I'm glad you all got to see how many of my life I interact with when I'm sick. I don't know what they are. I don't ask. I just take them. Let's call for some real check-ins. It is now 6.55. We have been on this net for 25 minutes and we have eight check-ins with six people still on the list. So let's make this a little bit larger on this Friday morning. We will be talking about ham radio. That is, I was on a discharge track. However, I need a new radio and I've been thinking about it for weeks, probably longer than weeks, and I still can't decide what I want, mainly because I don't know what I'm doing. My experience with ham radio, for you who don't know, is less than a year and it's 98% on this net. There's not much of a two-meter world around me. There is a little bit. There is a reduction where they have a really cool repeater system that has 40 some odd repeaters linked up. It's called the North Central Texas Connection. I listen to it and then I've gotten under a couple of times, but that's like me putting my head in the water. Those guys are so far advanced than me, I don't understand what they talk about a lot on the subs with ham radio, mainly because there's not any Elmer's, there's not even clubs, not even like that close to me. Other than you fine folks, I don't have somebody I can say, hey, let me see this radio and how you use it. I don't get that. There's no ham radio stores probably within 150 miles. So, y'all are going to hopefully help me decide what's ready to go. So, before we go into ham radio and handhelds and digital modes, I'm going to stop and call in for a few more check-ins. And then we'll go back up to the top of the list. Peter has been waiting for about 30 minutes and I hate to make him wait any longer, but I do want to make sure I have a chance to...