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Thank you, Al and Mw0gl. All right, Daryl, you have a history. Your Warford name is all over Newfoundland. So tell me about when the Warfords got there and what they do. This is KC2PKG, over to you. VL1UKZ. Well, my family left Bony Hill, Scotland in the middle of the 1800s after a series of very unsuspicious murders. Then we pirated our way across the North Atlantic to Newfoundland pillaging and plundering the whole way. It was a journey worthy of killers and thieves. I'm just kidding. Oh shit, I was going to keep that going too, but I just couldn't stop laughing. We immigrated, we were a group of fishermen. I think my great-great-great-great-grandmother was from Ireland, my great-great-great-great-grandfather was from Scotland. They with one or two of their kids, I can't remember specifically because this is a long time ago, this is 1800s we're talking about here, and they colonized the southern shore in Newfoundland. You know, you often hear me say I'm going to the country where my brother-in-law's parents live. They live on the southern shore, which is about an hour and a half outside of town here. Back at the turn of the century, the turn of the 1900s, of course, we moved to this area here in Shea Heights, which was outside the city. It was still rural at the time. There was no road actually connecting us to the city. There were dirt roads that were back passages at the time that were very difficult to travel, I'm guessing, without car. You know, without car, I guess they used horse and buggy or whatever the hell they used back then. There were no cars in Newfoundland. Back at the turn of the century, maybe they took the train. I don't know, there was trains. I'm not sure how they did it, but eventually they ended up here on Shea Heights where I currently live, which is a little community of just several thousand people off to the edge of the city. There is a road connecting Shea Heights to the city now. Ever since the late 1960s, I believe they put that road in. We were unofficially added to the city of St. John's, or the municipality of St. John's, let's call it that, because we weren't really part of the city. We were still outliers. Back in the 1970s, they started putting in city services. Late 60s, early 70s, they started putting in city services like running water and sewage. They dug up everything around to put those pipes under the streets. They paved it over and eventually got roads and stuff up here. Let me reset.