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Well, good morning there Bill and everybody out there today. Yeah, we've got the heat. The wave is back at the lake here too. We're supposed to get into the...by tomorrow we're going to be back up in the mid 80s again. We're supposed to get about 77 today. We had 48 degrees overnight. That's the coldest overnight temperature we've had since June. So it was kind of chilly last night. Let's see, you totally threw me by running the Columbia Basin Net last night. I was so confused that I almost made a real faux pas. Well, I did but I was trying to contact Rebecca and if Rebecca is listening, I can give her the message over the air while I tell you my story. But anyway, you and Brian switched and so I'm thinking, well, this is... I didn't know what day it was like it happens often when we're retired. And so at about three, two minutes before seven o'clock, I tried to call Rebecca, KK7IJZ. And fortunately she didn't answer because I was thinking, well, this is what is this video? No, there's nothing. I'm not going to interrupt anything on the repeater if I put on a call. And the Seattle ACS Net started just after I said, you know, that I was clear. And I felt so foolish about that. But I've been wondering about Lloyd. I sent Lloyd, AG7 Charlie X-ray, an email and did not hear anything. He did not respond at all. So now that he's over here on this side of the hill in Springdale, I was trying to get a hold of him so we could get together for lunch or something. So if Rebecca checks in and she has any knowledge of Lloyd, that would be great. So anyway, that's all that's going on here, Bill. 730 is back to you. This is Jim. Jane's at her retreat. So I just said, this is Jim at Dear Lake, K7, TDZ. All right, thank you, Jim. Yeah, that was unusual. That's the first time I've done a Monday net. I guess I swapped one other time with somebody and did like a Thursday net or something. But the swap went end of the week for the other. And it was pretty much felt the same. That was interesting. Same check-ins and such. And everybody, or most everybody recognized that I was doing the Monday net. So now I got a break while Brian does my net on Friday. And the reason I did the whole thing, nicely did, the reason I did the whole thing was because of Shannon Run coming up this weekend. So anybody that can get on the HF bands, Salmon Run, great contest. It's a QSO party for the state of Washington. And it's called Salmon Run. Why not? And yeah, one of the goals is to work all 39 counties. That's always what I try to do. Get a clean sweep of all 39 counties. But you can also work anybody else, the X station, Scout Extra, the states, anybody in any state, fair game. And it's just a fun weekend contest. So I always do that for years. And that's why we swapped. Brian's very active with it also, but he's from home. And I'm going to, well, at least the plan was I'm going to be with a club up in Wacom County, but with our club going up there. But I'm not sure that's going to happen. But I'll be on from up there. Okay, enough of that. And let's see, that brings us to the end of the current list. So more check-ins for this 9 o'clock night.