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All right, Russell, no problem. No problem. I was just waiting a couple of seconds here to let everything reset and because the system is huge. Well, my weekends are like four days long right now because I'm doing the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, go to Iowa and back. I'm on my way to Iowa right now, just left town about 15 minutes ago. But yeah, this week on the Learnatorium, I did the big thing I've been dreading to do. When you start drilling holes in buildings, that's a big event for me. And I always do it with a bit of trepidation. But got the holes drilled, got the conduits through the wall, got the wires all run, got the things hooked up. And so no more temporary hookups at the Learnatorium. Everything is all done kicky boo proper. And for anybody putting together a station, this is the first time really, and I hate to admit it, but my lightning protection in the past has always just been unscrewed coax and I've never had a really good grounding system. I've had a ground system, but it's been marginal at best. But this time I put in a proper ground system. And I can tell you right now made a big difference. I was picking up a little bit of, I could see it on the spectrum display on my 7300. On 75 meters there was some kind of electronic pulse that I could see on the display. Couldn't hear it very much, but I could see it on the display. And that is gone. I've got the Heil receive audio system because it helps deal with my frequency loss and makes the radio more intelligible. I was getting a little bit of RF feedback into that. It was like a half second delay. I could hear myself and the speakers. That is gone. And it just makes a huge difference. So that's what I did the first part of the week. Yesterday I had my son and my grandson come over to give me a hand and we moved all my firewood that I had split and stacked and let air dry for about a month and a half, two months. It was already mostly dry, but it's been sitting out in the sun for about 45 days. And between noon and six o'clock last night we moved 20 face cords of wood into the woodshed. And to give people an idea that don't deal with firewood, my woodshed is 12 by 16. Something like that. 12 by 16. Something like that. I can't remember. Yeah, 12 by 16. And that thing is full from the floor to the sill plate. Completely full except for a little 20 inch pathway that goes to the back. And it was a ton of wood. We all got wore out. But that's what we did. And then an hour after we got it in, it started to rain. So perfect timing. It's the first real rain we've had since I split the wood. And one last reset. You asked George about the No King protest. Interesting. They were interesting. I watched a few things. And the most glaring thing that jumped out to me, MSNBC. No question, they are biased. It's just their coverage is unadulterated bias. And they had a video of the rally in Boston. And they were talking about how many people were there and look at all these people and I'm watching this video. And something was not right in the video. Couldn't put my finger on it right away. And I looked away for a second I looked out the window, at the learnatorium and I saw all the foliage colors. And I looked back at the computer screen and it's like, that's not Boston right now. The video had zero foliage changed. It was all green. Everything was green. And I'm going to tell you what, there's nowhere north of Interstate 70 at this time of year right now that hasn't got at least some foliage changed. And north of Washington DC, everything's at least 50% foliage. So they knowingly put up a false video and claimed it was this big giant rally. And they wonder why nobody trusts them. Why people question what they do. And if you're a national news agency and you knowingly put up a false video and claim it's one thing and it's something else. To me that's unexcusable. But the part that I thought was funny when I really got to watching other people had seen it and dug into it. The rally to protest the no king was actually a video of one of the king's rallies in 2017. And so that's how dishonest they are. The other thing I noticed was that in some of the news coverage, they say it's grassroots. I don't consider anything grassroots that has U-Haul trucks delivering signage and blow up costumes. It just, it was a farce. To me it was nothing but a giant farce because if he was king, they couldn't protest. So there you go Greg. And as usual Monday mornings, I got time to stop by, check in once. But I will be saying 7-3's. Everybody have a great day. But I'll listen to your response Greg.