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Good morning, Teresa. Good morning, Dana. This is, as you said, Rich, WB7J. I'm here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. And let's see, a couple of things. One is a geeky computer thing. I got a laptop that's dual boot Ubuntu and Linux. And I wasn't able to get a firmware update done on Linux. Well, I mean on the laptop, but through the Linux firmware update manager. And I had to go through all these gymnastics. And I used Gemini. Gemini kind of coached me through this. All these gymnastics basically to expand and then recreate my EFI partition, which was quite the fun thing. But you know, here's what was really interesting was after I did all that. I know it's even more interesting. After I did all that, I lost my dual boot capability and my laptop booted directly to Windows. And so I ended up having to hack Windows. So, you know, establishing the boot order through Ubuntu, that didn't work. Now, I was thinking this was as a result of my gymnastics with the dual boot stuff and the EFI partition. It wasn't because I'd got another laptop configured the same way. And Windows hijacked the boot order as well. And so it turns out the Windows update sort of took more aggressive control of my laptop and didn't like me using Linux. That was, I thought, interesting. In other news, I'm sort of planning my 2026 schedule. This spring, you know, during the hot weather in San Miguel, in the past I've gone to Washington to escape it. This time I think I'm going to go to France. There's a nice lady I've met who is a dual French citizen. And she took me over there for a bit last month. And I think we're going to go over for, I'll max out my visa period probably the 90 days. She'll probably hang out another month after that. Otherwise, that's my report. Hey, thanks so much. Good to hear your voices. And back to you, WB7J.