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Good morning, Joe, and all the other hamsters on the World Wide Friendship Net. This is Roy here in Salem, Oregon, 54 degrees, going to get up to about 59, and I think the rain is supposed to hold off today. Hopefully we will, I'm going to go down, me and one of the other guys, and fix a couple of our bins at the woodlot that somebody ran into, didn't make the corner good enough. Hi, hi. Hardest one for me, I think, written tests, I've never really had a big problem with. But in fact, when I made E-5 in the Navy, I never studied for it. All the other guys studied, and I'm the only one that passed. I was back playing poker and back in the shop, and they were so mad at me. But the lucky thing is that when I went through electrician school, I taught, after I was in the three weeks, I started re-teaching to the guys who were having a problem and it was drilled into me. So all of that electronic or electric stuff was in my brain. Let's see, the hardest test would be the, I never did do the 20 words a minute for extra. I got to advance or general did the 13 words a minute but I just couldn't squeak out 20 words a minute. I never got that rhythm like Roy PTL has or some of them that just hammer that out. So if I would have passed 20 words I would have been an extra but I kind of like being advanced. I don't think I will ever go on and try to be extra even though there is no code. There's very few advanced left, so it's kind of a neat thing to have, there's just a handful of advanced people left because it was discontinued, I don't know how many years ago. Anyhow, that's about a real quick thing about the off the road vehicles and stuff. We have a high school site, one of the guys just posted about, they were in the sand rails and they took a bunch to one of the grade schools, one of them asked the principal if the kids would like to take a short ride, he took them out there, they popped a few wheelies and did a few donuts and that would never happen today. No parent involvement, no signing of documents, just a bunch of young kids and about six or seven big kids having fun. You'd never be able to do that this day and age. That can have control. Yeah, you are so right Roy. Even with photography, if there's any kids involved, I don't do kids anymore, but if there's any kids involved even parents would have to be there with them and they'd have to have them sign a form and yeah not like the old days you could just you know take take them even take one under your wing and as you know and help them learn photography but yeah you got to be really careful with that stuff now it's kind of skiing.