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Good evening Rebecca. Good evening everybody out there this evening. I just finished polishing off one of my favorite snacks. It is a cherry popsicle. I love cherry popsicles all times of the year whether it's warm out or cold. And so I just polished that off. What else has been going on? The past 24 hours outside of work, most of you know that I'm a new ham licensee. And so I've been practicing trying to write down call signs and I'm running about a 40%, maybe 30 to 40% accuracy rate at this point. So I have a long way to go to develop that memory, that muscle memory in my ear. An interesting thing happened in the last 24 hours. Every time I was on VHF on two meters, I had a lot of background noise just constantly which was unusual. Couldn't figure out why. And then all of a sudden today I remember that someone had said to me a while back how sensitive antenna position is. And so my antenna is inside my window of my apartment. And I slid it over about three inches and all of a sudden all the noise went away. I'm like, oh my gosh, how incredible. So I learned something new. And then last night I had the pleasure of participating in my first Miro Emergency Net, Mercer Island Radio Operator Group Net. So that was educational. And other than that, looking forward to getting out this weekend and enjoying some of the rain and the beautiful leaves turning color. Anyways, I want to thank everybody. And thank you Rebecca for running a wonderful net this evening. W8PLZ, clear. Back to you, Net. Rebecca- That's awesome. Yeah, you sure have just grabbed the bull by the horns, haven't you? That's amazing. I love it. I love that you have your dad's call sign too. I always think about that. It's so sweet. I always love it whenever people get vanity call signs. And they just happen to be people that they love. But anyway, yeah, well that's great. Well, you know, there are a couple of things that you probably have heard the joke already. It's not amateur radio. It's amateur antenna. So there you go. That's why. You just scoot that thing over just a little and all of a sudden the world just opens up for you. It's awesome. And yeah. Call signs. I'll always struggle with call signs. I mean I also have dyslexia and dysgraphia but that's never, that's never stopped me. It's fine. It's fine. You just keep on moving. But yeah, that's good. Yeah, just keeping your ear up with the, yeah, listening to call signs. It's great. And also remembering that the only person who is responsible for remembering your call sign is the operator themselves. So you do your best and you just keep on rolling. But yeah, it is good for emergency if you're into emergency communication just to, yeah, just do your best remembering call signs. But yeah, well that's great, David. Thank you so much for your report and have a wonderful, wonderful evening. And yes, 73. All right. I'm going to try and go back and see if I can pick up Mike in Magnolia. Mike, are you out there? KJ7VEU, KK7IJZ.