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Hi Joan and Nat, this is Sebastian, WA7EVZ, whatevs. I was out walking the dogs when I did the initial check in, and we just got back and did our garbage routine for the pick up tomorrow. We walked down to Eckstein Park, which is kind of in my neighborhood, and a large cottonwood had blown down in the park during the storm the other day. Right onto the swing set, and it broke the top crossmember off and broke two of the swings. So that kind of sucks for the kids. Those are pretty popular little swings over there. I hope they get it fixed pretty soon, but it looks like the kids had taken all of the sticks and branches and stuff and stacked it into a teepee. So clearly they were having fun, even if the swings were not operational. Other than that, in terms of the storm last weekend, my neighborhood and kind of nine neighbors were out of power for 16 hours. I'm still not sure exactly where the problem started, but we had a pretty extended outage. Thankfully we had plenty of battery power for all this ham gear, so I still got to hear everybody. And we got a lot of reading in. Other than that, I had a friend come over the weekend. We actually went to the PSRG rain or shine for a brief few seconds because we were riding by on an e-bike journey on the Burke-Gilman. So it was nice to see everybody briefly. I also got to snap some pictures there of downtown while the weather was still good. I don't know if anybody else noticed, but there was a bunch of paddleboarding witches out on the Lake Union. That was pretty funny to see. Not a single one of them disintegrated. Didn't get wet at all. It was really cool. That's about all I've got. Just status quo over here. I'll send it back to Net. Nice hearing everybody tonight. Thanks for hosting, Joan. This is Sebastian, WA7EVZ. 73, everybody.