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Good evening to you, Bill and everyone out there on the net. Kami here, KJ7RAB. I am tired and sore. Everything hurts. Oh, boy. We did a lot of work this weekend in Gig Harbor, helping out with the estate of a silent key. We got everything packed up and sorted and moved down into the garage Friday, and then we spent Friday night in Gig Harbor and then got everything loaded into the truck today and then drove home and got the truck unloaded. And so we've got to return the truck tomorrow. So stay tuned for a list of gear. I have a message from Jack on the back end. Jack came and helped us out on Friday as well. And thank you so much, Jack. It was great to hang out, and it was really nice to have some extra help. And then Jack messaged me, but my hair hurts. Oh, yeah. The shack was upstairs, and they weren't just regular stairs. They kind of went down and then made a turn and went down the rest of the way. So Jack and I were wrangling these metal shelves down the stairs and then trying to make the turn. And I'm sure it was comical to watch, but I think we did a pretty good job of wrangling those shelves down the stairs. And not too many boat anchor radios, but we got it all sorted. And Robert is master of Tetris. And so I just leave that all to him, arranging it in the truck and in the garage, because if I put it in the wrong spot, he'll move it. He's snoring. He's so tired, he's asleep already. So he won't be checking in. But I'm rambling. Brooks, your antenna looks great. Your shack looks amazing, and I'm really envious of that power supply. Give my best to Megan and Jeff, AB6MB. Thanks for coming in at the beginning and stalling so Bill could get everything sorted. And Brooks, thanks for resetting all of those receivers to make everything work again. Thanks for hosting, and thanks for taking my check in KJ7RAB, back to night control. Cami, that sounds like a lot of work you guys put in. Just telling us that Robert is actually passed out of sleep tells us how much work it is, because he usually has a lot of energy to ston the night on the net. And I guess, yeah, I guess like Jack says, that would make your hair hurt. Well, good for you for getting that stuff out and taking care of the partner of the silent key so that she doesn't have to be burdened with it. And you can help some new hands get some great equipment. Thanks for doing that stuff. We really appreciate that. It's good for the community, and we thank you. Let's talk to Jeff, the savior of the moment. I should explain that not only were we unlucky enough to have a dead repeater, I had been doing some ACS work earlier in the week and all those fire station things where you go out there. I packed all this equipment away, and I put this little teeny box of the connectors that get from my J-Pole into my transceiver. And I just thought I might need something like that, so I put them in my bag. And of course, when I came up here to get going, they aren't here, because they're still somewhere in my bag. So I was panicking, trying to replace, you know, find the right connectors to replace what I couldn't find. And then the repeater's dead. So sometimes the world is not looking out for you. You have to look out for yourself. But we had Jeff and Brooks looking out for us, and I said, Jeff, thank you so much. Over to you. Thank you very much. It was nothing. Just glad to help. It was from my experience of being a neck controller that came in, that's for sure. Because it just didn't miss a beat. Yeah, thanks for doing that, Bill. And yeah, today was a good day. I watched Washington Huskies beat Washington State University Cougars. I just remember what the animal was. And I was thinking about Brooks there, and I was assuming he was having a good time watching the game. Meanwhile, yeah, because I grew up in the Seattle area, so I still liked Washington Huskies. And I never went to a game, but my girlfriend used to go to the university, and I used to live at Blackmon University. So I definitely got a tie-in. Let's see here. Yeah, it was sunny here today. I bet everybody's shocked to hear that. And about 75 degrees, very nice day out. And I was just kind of wondering, Bill, when you pick it up from the – did you guys have rain there today? I watched the weather radar now for the West Coast on a tablet up on my counter, and I saw a big, green system come across Washington. So I'm interested if you guys saw rain there, because when I asked Alexa, she said it was sunny there. So kind of wondering what's going on there. Meanwhile, RC Dodgers win tonight, which was great and a good game. They swept the Giants, the hated Giants. But I have a hard time hating them, because my daughter and her husband are big Giants fans. And when they found out I became a Dodgers fan, they were not very happy. My daughter said to me, Dad, if it only wasn't the Dodgers. I said, yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know where I went wrong. But anyway, it's about it here. I can't think of anything else. I was too earth-shaking here, except for maybe occasional earthquakes. I have my earthquake monitor called California Seismograph. I highly recommend it. It's a YouTube app you can put on your phone or on your computer. It tells you where all the earthquakes are around the world. It's kind of fun. I've been watching it. They've been having a lot of earthquakes up in Kamchatka. They've had almost a nine point some odd, some big record quake up there. They've been having aftershocks all the time. So that's interesting. And this way when I see out of hazard next quake, I'll be able to know about it. Anyway, let me turn it back to Ned tonight. AB6MB. AB6MB, say K7WSB. Well, thanks again, Jeff. And yes, so the Apple Cup was today. That's so weird. Usually I think of it as a big weekend later in the fall, but I guess with whatever happened in the Pac-10, I guess that's the way they make it work. Another comment, you mentioned the Dodgers versus the Giants. It takes me back when I was a little kid and the Dodgers and Giants were both in New York, the Dodgers at Edits Field in Brooklyn and the Giants at the Polar Grounds in the Bronx, I think. Somebody will correct me if I have that wrong. And it did not rain here today. It was a lovely day. It actually was about like you had, sunny. I think it was about 75. Had a lovely day. Yeah, real pretty. Well, let's go from California back to Seattle to talk to Bossanova Bill. How are you tonight, Bill?