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Well, I mentioned the ham nation. Fifteen years ago around this time the gentleman who is doing the amateur news line net every Saturday night, the guy was doing it quick. So Paul and Steve, I guess Paul called my house and said they want to meet you on the backup server and that's when he asked me to do the Saturday night net. And then I said, okay, by the way, we're going to start a new one and we were the first group to do the ham nation amateur net and they asked me if I'd do that. So I said, yeah, I'll do it. Then about a week later or two, it's like I had the brain fart of doing a, we didn't have a sound net, I was just tracking Santa Claus. So the first two years we just tracked him. The third year Steve decided to be Santa Claus. Well now you all know where we're standing now. It's been 15 years of Santa Watch net coming up and I'm going to start prepping the QSL cards, at least staffing the front N1S. But yeah, 15 years, that's, and ham nation was a lot of fun but when all the different nodes and everything came out, we used to have 70, 80 check-ins a night. And DMR, everything else came in, we dropped down big time so we basically quit doing it. I haven't seen it since I quit. I know it's on YouTube but I still have fun. Late night, I'm on the Q-to-sound repeater system. Actually they have several nets a day. They have a new, well it's a new net for me. They have a net later, a late night net which I usually join in. But yeah, it's, and this December it'll be 33 years of license for me so it's been a lot of fun. And one of these days I'll get my general, I'm still working on it but I just have a hard time studying. My brain just wanders so that's why I'm at work. I try to use that ham radio prep and I'm slowly getting there so one of these days I'll get on there and say this is N3N2E slash AG so hopefully one of these days. With that, back to net. This is Dave, N3NTV in beautiful downtown, Morbier, South Dakota. Morbier came from Mr. Paul. N3N2E back to net.