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noise, jumping and all the rest of it. Yeah, it's actually 4.45 in the morning because we moved back last week, moved the clocks back. So I'm now an hour younger than I would normally be at this time of the day. Not that you can see any difference, but there we go. Yeah, now just, I went to bed early for a change. I was actually in bed by 10 o'clock yesterday, last night, and I was going to say, I don't know what it is, I can't sleep for very long. And I sort of woke up and I was tossing, I was tossing and turning for about an hour. And I just thought, oh, there's enough of this. I'm going to get up, get dressed, make a nice cup of tea, a builder's bottom tea as we call it, you know, dark and brown and Welsh stews, come in the shack, turn the radio on. And I thought, oh, I'm in time for the 9 p.m. net, so I'll come in. So yeah, so yeah, now all is good over here. Here's your radio thing. I have a load of coax plugs. I have some compartment boxes. I think there's six or seven of these compartment boxes. They're about two foot by two and a half foot square, sort of flatish things. I've got about 25, 30 compartments in. With all manner of plugs to fit all manner of coaxes. Anyway, I reached the point where I was thinking, well, the coax has been up for about eight to 10 years. Time to change it. And I had a hunch around and I've got some really good quality coax. LM400, some HyperFlex 10, some Altaflex 7, and all the rest of it. And can I find a coax plug for any of this high quality coax? It's like, oh. So I'll just go onto Amazon. I'm gonna have to order eight, another compartment box to pull them all in. And then a whole series of new coax plugs to fit these high quality coax cables. But here we go. Hopefully, it's not something I should be doing on a regular basis. It's just comical. I'll go up this high quality. I've got a normal drum of, what do they call it, 213 cable, and I've got 50 metres of that, which has been my normal antenna cable. People have given me this high quality coax. I mean, the one that I think the Altaflex 7, I think it was 50 metres, so 750 feet. It's not on a drum. It's loose. I've had to sort of tape it up. It would be such a shame not to use this high quality stuff. It's a job I'm gonna do once a decade sort of thing. I'm gonna get the old digital mic thing out, callipers, and check the dimensions of all this stuff, the diameter and all that. And then my task for today is to go onto Amazon and hold a whole lot of new plugs and things. But the amount of adapters and plugs and things I've got is just phenomenal. I don't even remember buying half of them. They just seem to breed. You turn the lights out at night, and you come back, and there's the compartment box full of bits and bobs. Oh, dear. I always think I'm gonna have a clear out and get rid of the stuff I don't use. But then again, it's very, very difficult to... Well, that might come in handy. I mean, the drum of 213 has been under the dining room table for six or seven years. It was one of those things that it was on sale. It was half price. It was like, oh, yeah, buy it now. I'm sure I'll use it. Yeah, well, I haven't used it yet. Anyway, look at my rambling first thing in the morning. I hope I see Rebecca, and I'll be on the net from 2-0 LRB. Who's headed in the shire.