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Well, good morning again. Well, it's probably afternoon for some of the people. I go back to Newburgh again when I was a kid. We didn't have a telephone until later on, but I was at my aunt and uncle's house. I was probably six or seven years old. They had a phone, and I picked it up, and somebody said, number please. So there was an operator somewhere there in Newburgh that had to pull out a plug and plug it in somewhere else, whoever you were calling. But I think I just hung the phone up again. I didn't know what I was doing. We didn't have a phone until, oh the other thing was my sister and I had roller skates later on and we didn't have sidewalks where we lived there in southeast Portland. So we took our roller skates to Newburgh and then we would roller skate on their sidewalks. That was a big deal. I guess the other thing I remember is I took a drink of water there in Newburgh and it oh my God, it was horrible. I guess it was hard water. I don't know, we have good water here. Anyway, my uncle was in the armored in the war and supposedly he was at Hitler's nest or whatever, I think there was a picture or something, maybe my 93 year old cousin has it, I'll have to ask him about it. Anyway, we didn't get a phone until we moved out toward Gresham and Alpine 41713 was the phone number. They used to have prefixes before they had all numbers, so anyway, I used to call my girlfriend on the phone. I think we had a 15-party line and I'm sure when the phone rang probably everybody picked up the phone. Anyway, that's my two cents I guess. KV7 PVW. Bad connect. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven. Well yeah, out on the farm in the rural areas in Pittsburgh when I was a kid. Yeah, party lines, that was the only thing we had. And I think if I remember correctly it rang differently or only it rang, it would ring differently I think depending on whose house it was going to and you didn't hear it ring if it was going to somebody else's house or something like that. But yeah, if you needed to use the phone you'd pick it up and hear somebody talking and everybody wanted to listen to everybody's conversation. Conversation and no idea who would other people were you didn't recognize them as neighbors or anything, but I was pretty young then so anyway We're there. Thanks there Mel for the recheck, and I've got a recheck from Jim Jim I'll put you on the list here, and then this would be a last call for check-in So if you haven't checked in this is your last chance so come on. You know come on in now