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My feeling on repeater timeout timers is that, in at least one of my science fictions, it's an alternative present where repeaters don't timeout. Broadcast stations don't timeout. Why doesn't the repeater on and the traffic happens on the repeater? And if somebody asks you what your call sign is, you have to tell them. How radio licenses are for life, just like commercial radio licenses are. Go get me started. Then Red Dwarf. I love Red Dwarf. And in fact, if you ever see the movie Red Dwarf, it's so meta. The folks that, I won't really totally spoil it, but they get sucked into some vortex and they emerge in the real world. And they're trying to go find their way back into their world. And it has a surprising real world situation. I do not say anymore because it will spoil it too much. I'm very clever how the parallel universe is actually reality. And they try to go reenter their fictitious universe. Anyway, which to them is real. So it's our world that's incredible to them. Okay, I'll stop. I'm watching pistachios by the way. I probably have to not eat any more nuts after today because I've got a colonoscopy on Friday. So I'm basically cutting down on my normal diet to this weird abnormal diet I have to have in the next few days. Anyway, so, well I hope Liz doesn't lose her job, but if she does, then what can you do? And mansions on Capitol Hill. We've got a lot of them. Folks out there in vacuum land. I live in the epicenter of the entertainment district of Capitol Hill. I live right on Broadway Avenue and in the Pike Pine corridor, but just several blocks north of me on Broadway Avenue, which becomes a neighborhood street at that point. And the arterial moves over to 10th Avenue. There are really quite some beautiful mansions up there, including one of the Wilson Sisters has a mansion up there. And I sometimes ride my bicycle through it. It's all strangely and nominally quiet. Lots of cherry blossoms in the spring and mansions, including the one that was just mentioned. Alright, so moving right along here, W7 or N7YD. Mark, please give us your report.