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Well, I don't have my talkback monitor on, so I wasn't even confident that I was transmitting. Anyway, it looks good and I don't know if the, I mean, I was kind of hoping that Rebecca would come up sometime and we could fit in putting your desk in place, unless you have already, or looking at it. I don't know, you're not that far away from me physically, so it's still a possibility if you still needed help that I could get over there somehow. But anyway, take care, Sean, and it looks good from what I can see in the photographs that you sent to me, so keep in touch. All right, so last on this list was an In-N-Out from Bossa Nova Voo and KG7FWB, Fox Whiskey Bravo, and that brings us to the bottom of the first round. And we put a Roman numeral two here, but before I start the second round, I'm going to read the announcements, and the announcements are hopefully in Messenger, yes, good, there they are. Let me just move the iPad Mini 6 to where I can see it at the same time, I'll just hold it. Get back on the mic here. So here we go. Scroll to the top, it's a long list, I shouldn't read all of them, I guess. Saturday, October 4 is the Tour de Forest American Rally Association Automobile Rally. Saturday, October 4 also is the Radio Club of Tacoma hosting their open house. Club members and their guests, HAMS and all visitors members of the damage radio, it's pretty cool folks that they have their own, Radio Club of Tacoma have their own house, clubhouse. And upstairs are two, count them, two, two, two HAMS shacks and one second floor. One is, one of them is, has got the most modern equipment and you know, online accessible high tech station, and then across is what they call their museum, a station with all kinds of perfectly functional vacuum tube equipment, and I've operated in there on straight keynote, and if you are old enough, if you're old as I am at least, there is something about the smell of hot tubes, hot dusty tubes, it's really the smell of the dust roasting on the tubes, because if they're perfectly brand new, tubes with no dust, they might not have any smell at all. But I'll tell you, if you're a HAMS radio operator of a certain age, from a certain era, the smell of a room full of hot vacuum tubes just, it triggers a visceral pleasure.