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Yes sir, thank you very much, I appreciate it. Beryl, I'm sorry that you lost your info, I know that really sucks. I am terribly frightened and cautious about how I store my media. I don't have movies or songs or anything like that, but I have tons of writings. Thousands upon thousands of pictures and videos of my kids when they were young and everything else. If I lost that, man, I'd be heartbroken, so I feel for you brother. And of course, I'm not going to even say this, but I'm just saying what I do is I'm so paranoid about it. I have it backed up on three hard drives of the house, they're all connected to the computer, and I do each one, you know, at least every six months I make sure that they're all backed up on the other stuff. Then I also have two cloud backups, well actually three. I have Mac and then Flickr and then Google as a backup, I pay for all that too. Just because, you know, what's going to happen? You're going to have a fire at the house or lightning strike and it knocks out all the hard drives. There's just so many damn things that could happen. Or just plain failure, because I don't even use mechanical hard drives anymore. And solid state drives, they're bad. You know, I mean, they go bad too. So, you know, I was thinking of a program, I didn't hear exactly what you think happened to the hard drive, but I know there was a program you can buy, but it's like $150 and it's supposed to try to recover that data, but there's no guarantee, just like if you send it off to somebody, there's no guarantees, right? So, I did hear something interesting. I was watching a YouTube video on EV cars and one of the biggest complaints that everybody has, let me do a reset. One of the biggest complaints that everybody has is the fact that, you know, the range, 300 miles is not enough. And then if it's cold weather, it could be even less than that. So, there's a company, I forgot the name of it, I can look it up if you guys are really curious, but they are designing and building solid state batteries. And they have it in this one car, which is the car itself. It's a high-end car only for the ultra-rich. It's a $500,000 car, but this car has that solid state battery in it. And their idea is, you know, as they get it out and they get more development on it, they're going to pass it down to everybody else. They're going to, you know, I'm sure for a price, everybody's going to have this technology for solid state batteries. But this one car, they've tested it. Now, mind you, the test can be skewed. It could be driving only 30 miles an hour instead of 60 miles an hour, which will, you know, cause you to, you know, use more power and stuff like that. But they claim that they're getting 800 miles out of this battery. That's incredible. 800 miles. Now, if I could get an EV that cost the same as basically a regular car and it had a range of 800 miles before I had to recharge it, man, I'd go for that in a heartbeat. That's better than anything I got now, that's for sure. My son's car, he was an EV and he only got 260 miles during the summer and it was down to almost 190 during the winter. So, they might have a breakthrough. It might be a good breakthrough, you know. And, of course, now, you know, that all the incentives have been taken away to go to EV. I don't know how available or practical it will be. But I just thought that was interesting. They did a breakthrough. It's called, you know, solid state batteries. I got to look up what a solid state battery is because I have no clue. But I wonder if, are they safer, are they worse than lithium ion or what, you know. But at least they're coming, they're progressing. Anyways, back to net control, KB0MAI.