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Hello Joan and Annette. Yes, I'm on Echo Link. Hopefully you can hear me okay. I don't often check in, in part just because I have to go up into the attic. But I'm down here. I had a cup of tea since the check-in net. Some unexpectedly heavy news on the net. Thank you, Joan, for calling the silent key. I don't know if that was the right word, memorials, but I appreciate you doing that. He handled it very ably as well. And then what else? I just wanted to appreciate that I didn't really know Charlie beyond his check-ins on the 9 o'clock nets, but I always thought that he had a really nice friendly energy to it. And I really appreciated him being part of the nets, and so I will miss that. I wanted to also tip the hat to the idea of putting up holiday lights before the holidays, and then not plugging them in until after Thanksgiving. I thought that was genius. And I might steal that in the future when I have a house to put lights on. What else? I have been – my work schedule is confusing. I'm sometimes up in Seattle. I'm usually from home here in Tacoma. Sometimes I'm going down. I've been recently covering a trial in Tacoma federal court. And so I can either drive there and struggle to find parking, or I can take transit there which takes maybe half an hour depending on what I catch, or I can ride my bike straight down the hill, and that takes about seven or eight minutes. And that's been really fun for the past few weeks, but it is awfully rainy recently. So today I got pretty soaked on my way back to lunch. Luckily I don't have to do that tomorrow, but that has been a fun bit of variety in the day. Oh, and tomorrow is election day. I don't want to get into politics on the net, but I do have a friend who is running for something. And it's been fun to see that from that side. And I'm just thinking about him and wishing him well tomorrow. It's not in Seattle or Tacoma. I'm not going to say it, so you can't accuse me of talking about politics. But yeah, thanks very much for hosting the net. Thanks very much everybody for checking in. And I'm switching now from black tea to red wine. So cheers, Gessner. This is K7LLZ.