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Well good afternoon to you Jack and everyone out there on the net. Kami here, KJ7RAB. I usually am pretty envious when everyone's talking about their food and what they're eating because I don't have a lot to eat around here during the day so I'm generally, you know, foraging around trying to find something good. But yesterday we got a whole bunch of really good baked things from a bakery that we like in Snohomish and so I'm eating way too many of those baked goods. So I got that going for me today. And then wow, all of the reminiscing about the places in Seattle, I was trying to write everything down. I remember Warshalls. That was the one on First Avenue I believe. I didn't spend a lot of time in that one. I do remember Eddie Bauer on, I don't think I remember Eddie Bauer on First. I remember Eddie Bauer on Fifth Avenue. And then Filson, I believe, and don't quote me on this because it's been a minute since I've been down there, but they do have some people that are down on the first floor that's not accessible to the public. There are a bunch of machines down there and I know that they make some of the things locally, but not everything. And then upstairs they have that area with the machines where the folks are making the reclaimed bags. I call them the Frankenstein bags because if you return a bag that's damaged, they'll repair it for you or they'll take really old, beat up bags and they'll cobble them together to make a new one that's even more expensive than a brand new one that you would buy because it's got that worn in, petina look and they're cobbled together like Frankenstein. And one of our ham friends, I think he still works there. I haven't talked to him in some time, but he's one of our ham friends that also did rally. He was one of those people that took the bags apart and made new ones out of them. So there's the ham connection with Filson. Thanks so much for hosting, Jack. Thanks for getting me in and thanks for keeping me company while I work. KJ7RAB back to night control.