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Yeah, it would be good for you to say whiskey bravo. You've got a reason for doing phonetics because I did it. I just didn't write down the B. I see you were 12 when you got your first novice. I was 13 when I got my first novice. I was assigned to the USS Puget Sound, AD 38, that's Destroyer Tender, which at the time was also the flagship of the 6th Fleet, the Med. And yes, it is not legal to follow illegal orders. You know, the thing is I think that people who do things like this don't believe they'll actually come to book. But let's leave that topic alone. I'm looking at my notes. Calibration technician? Yeah, I was an opticalman, an optics technician. And there are also, I think, when I was in the Navy in the 80s, there was also a rating called instrumentman. But if you were a calibration technician, you may have been an instrumentman or longer ago than they have been. Those ratings don't even exist anymore, by the way. They've been folded into other ratings. I think the opticalman has been folded into the fire control technician rating, or one of those. And, let's see, oh, I've got to stop before I just keep going on. Yes, I was CW, I'm trying to get back into CW. It was my single mode for a long time, for years. And now I can't even operate HF for my apartment. There's so much RFI. And I've been, 99% of the time, just been on the repeaters. Anyway, Bob, great talking with you. And please come on here. Oh, I remember shingles. You know, a friend of mine, Bob, another Bob, that was just talking to him today down in our lobby. I live in senior housing. And he's got shingles. And I said, you didn't get your shingles vaccination? And he said, no. I said, well, now you're paying the price. You've got shingles. I had shingles so bad in my 40s, I believe, that the physician asked, got me to sign off on her taking some photographs for medical photographs for education. And believe it or not, I found a book that had the photograph. I recognized my own back in the photograph. Oh my God. I didn't tell anyone that it was me. But I recognized my own back. It was a classic case. It's such a bad case of it. My entire back was just, it was horrible. And so after they got to the improved shingles vaccination, I got both at the VA hospital. And I'm glad I did. My other friend Bob, who lives with me in this building, he didn't get the shingles vaccination. Maybe some similar reasoning that you had. And why would you even want to risk the possibility of getting shingles? But I'm glad you still have your eyesight and that you've finally gotten over it. And I'm glad you're back on air. So welcome back. Welcome back. Take care, Bob. Take care, Bob. And I run the Monday night net. And you've already heard probably, you already know about it. That's every morning and every night and every noon, every day. Take care, Bob. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. November, November. By the way, I was ET. ETN because I was in the new program first. And then ultimately went to advanced electronics. That's where they sent me to Lowry Air Force base to become a metrology person. So yeah, so it was ET. WB6TXT.