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Okay, seven RMU and seven JVJ. How are you doing, Jack? I hope well. Space program, yeah. Like you, I grew up in it. From Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, all of the above. And then the huge amount of time that we haven't pursued space like we should have. And it could have been a lot farther than we are already. But there you go. Yesterday after talking to you on the net, did you ever have one of those days that one thing led to the other, to another, to another? And it wasn't a very successful day. I went to get on HF after the nine o'clock net. And my amplifier decided to have issues. A tube went. I had to do some troubleshooting. I repaired it. But while it was out, I had noticed that when I pulled the amp out, the base from my boom mic, it's a Heil HM1 or something like that. It was sticking way too low and was actually rubbing up against the amplifier. So the OCD side of me said, okay, I got to cut this down. So I took it, removed it, took it down to the shop. And realized that it was solid, one and a half inch aluminum. And the hacksaw was kind of cutting through most of it, but not quite. And had I had a bandsaw, it would have taken me like five seconds. But I don't have a bandsaw at home. I ended up breaking out my Dremel. And at that and about five or six little disks, I was able to cut through, reassemble everything. Amplifier is back online. That's good. The other thing that didn't work out that actually was the worst part of the day is we have this huge front door. We have two front doors, but the big door is 42 inches wide, solid core, huge. It has never had a storm door on it. And I had ordered one about, I want to say three months ago. And long tail of woes. The installer canceled out last month and set me up for yesterday. And they called me 10 minutes before installation. They had scheduled and said they couldn't do it because the door was too big. And they needed more hands on it. So he said he would be here today prior to noon. And they're not. Hi, hi. So that's how my days are going. But I'm still laughing about it. How's that? I'll turn it back over to you. Kilo India 7, Romeo, KI 7, RMU N7, JVJ.