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Kim's outside in a phone conversation, she has reception up there. But yeah, I'm so delighted to hear your voice on the radio when I turned it on at the beginning of your first round there. So great to hear the VIP list of great check-ins along that list too. It's been a good time, life has been. Oh, by the way, I think it was Richard Rich, the person that you said. I actually filled in for you on a Friday night a couple weeks ago. What a pleasure. And I'm being able to fill in for Brian this Sunday night, really enjoying getting back to our people out there with radios in their hands. But that last checker-inner, I'm sorry, I forgot his name already, just triggered a memory that I had of this week where he said he's going through some old photos to bring and show people. And I just had a great experience relating to that subject. Well, about a month ago, though this might be news to many people that I talk to on the radio, about a month ago I had to go to the hospital and have one of my toes cut off. Can you believe it? My middle left toe is gone. But while I was waiting in the office of the doctor who was going to remove that toe, I looked up and saw this guy in scrubs walking up to me. And he goes, Louie? And I look up and my eye passes his ID badge and I see Bobby – I don't want to say his whole name – I see Bobby something on his thing and I say, holy crap. A friend of mine from about 1984 to about 1990 before we fell out of being in close touch was standing right there. He was my skateboard buddy. We used to sit around, sit in Westlake Center smoking cigarettes on our skateboards and walking girls goodbye and just cutting up and being kids. I was like 24. He was about the same. He comes up to me. I haven't seen him in almost 35 years or so. It's amazing that he just pops up in front of me and he's the x-ray technician at this place where I was getting my toe cut off. So the day before yesterday I spent quite a bit of time going through a couple hundred pictures of me and him and our wives at the time on a trip to New York on our skateboarding trips to Long Beach, not to Long Beach but to Lincoln City. And oh man, photographs. It made me remember so many things. I entirely believe that if you please take pictures, look through your old pictures, the memories that having collections of old photographs can revive in us is just mind-blowing. So I'm back in touch with a friend that I haven't seen or heard of in over 30 years and I had the pictures to prove that we were friends. Anywho, I have been blah, blah, blah-ing but that's the radio score isn't it? I'm sure I'm going to hit the wall in a minute so I'm going to stop talking. But yeah, I just wanted to say I just love going through these old black and white pictures and with me and my friends, the weirdest little hoodlums. And that's it. W7DBB, much love to you Rebecca and everyone else out there. Oh and I have a present that I made for you. Anyway, W7DBB, back to the net.