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Yeah, I found out some interesting history yesterday. Yesterday was Columbus Day here in the United States. And it turns out that Columbus Day didn't come around until 1891, I think. And there was a lynching of about seven or eight people. I'm thinking seven or eight. There might have been as many as 11, but there was some kind of issue with some Italian citizens or United States citizens of Italian descent down in New Orleans. And some of them had been cleared or whatever, but there was a whole bunch of people that got together and went down, got them out of jail, and did a mass lynching. And that ended up creating a rift between the United States and Italy. And Italy was talking about maybe going to war with us. And the current president at the time decided to create Columbus Day for the Italians. I think that may have helped invert a war with Italy back in the 1890s. But I didn't know that. I didn't know that's how Columbus Day got started. You know, Columbus, I think Washington, D.C., is in the, what's the, Columbia, District of Columbia, which is, you know, basically named after Columbus or in recognition of Columbus and discovering the new world here. So that was a little bit of history. Maybe we could talk some more about that tomorrow. But that was yesterday when you guys were celebrating Thanksgiving up there in Canada. We were celebrating Columbus Day, which the post office was closed, so I didn't get a chance to get my stuff from the post office yesterday. That was very disappointing because I made an effort to get to the post office yesterday and I couldn't get my stuff because it was closed. But I'll pass it back to you there. 73, catch you getting ready tomorrow. This is Repeat. Yeah, cool, Bill. The air post office is like semi-open here in Canada again. They're calling it rotating strikes, which means there's still a huge backlog from the last couple of weeks of the strike. So they're probably working through that. And then Christ only knows that they're going to go on strike again, like a full strike. So God only knows what's going on with our mailman, but hopefully it will all get cleared up soon enough. But the way it's looking right now, still kind of shaky. Our local post office was open this morning, though, but it may not be tomorrow. It may not be for a week. It's so uncertain. Postal Service here in Canada, they're negotiating themselves out of not having jobs anymore because the government is already considering privatization for the post office. And then they're complaining and they're needling over money all the time. It won't matter a row of crap because their collective agreements won't even exist anymore if it gets privatized. So then they'll be working for whatever they get or they can quit. And I think that's unreal. I mean, they know that Canada Post is already hemorrhaging money and they want increases, they want additional benefits, more hours, seniority flexibility. I mean, this is all stuff they've already got, but they want more and more and more. And it's always more and more and more with Postal Workers here in Canada. It blows my mind because they're going to complain themselves out of a job eventually. The government has had enough. I mean, they don't even want to keep it going anymore. They want to privatize it. And if that happens, then they'll regret everything they did. Next up, we're going to Chuck, KA4HI, for final comments.