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Well, I got that it's not raining, which is good. I am parked here at Shoreline City Hall in their upper parking area, which is where they've got the free chargers. Yes, they're just kind of the slow chargers. They charge at about nine amp hours or something. So it takes like forever. But lately I've been going to a city light charging station, which is like at 160th and Aurora. and that's pretty cheap. If they discharge the regular city light rate, which is 21 cents per kilowatt hour, if you do it, it'll be given in the morning, and then on Sundays, it's 21 cents for the whole day, and otherwise, peak hours, it's 31 cents a kilowatt hour, which is not bad. So I've been charging up there pretty often because it is quick. I can get fully charged in about an hour, And that makes me pretty happy. But fast charging is a little harder on the batteries than the slow charging, so I'm slow charging and I'm gonna charge it up to 90%. What they recommend is 80, but for the slow charger, I think that's easy enough on it that it doesn't really make any difference. In fact, it's about a mile to my QTH. Walking takes me about 20 minutes, so I will get out of my car here in a minute and start walking back. And as I say, since it's not raining, it's pretty nice. By the way, I want to congratulate you. You were great picking up them call signs. I did the new net today. And as usual, I butchered about half a dozen call signs and missed Jack when he called in and all that other kind of fumbling. I'm still working on my technique and writing things down more quickly and accurately. Accuracy, I think, is the key there. But anyway, I give it a good try. And at least I'm feeling more relaxed when I do the occasional nets, usually as a stand-in. So standing in today for Kirk. He's back from wherever he is, or almost back. Anyway, hey, thanks for the net. And I'll turn it back to the rest of the world, KI-7, ZEI. Hey, Tim, I have a question. I don't have an electric vehicle. I actually have a hybrid, a non-plug-in hybrid. But just the slow charging that you're getting right now, That's faster than just plugging it into 110, right? Correct. You have to plug it into 110. This is for Kilo Station Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. All star NOS 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Three amp hours or four amp hours. About three amp hours an hour, so it's like this deadly slow. With the level two charger, which is what they've got here at shoreline, that's the 480 volt or 440 volt input. That's at about nine, it depends, but about six, seven, eight kilowatts per hour. So significantly faster. And charging, I was down to very low. I was down at just a 15-mile range because I did quite a bit of driving around tonight, drove down to the airport, picked up some people, et cetera. And so it takes me about nine hours to charge up to 90%. The other questions people ask me sometimes or have asked me or meant to ask me and didn't ask me is, do I get any kind of RFI or anything from the electronics? And the answer is absolutely not. Everything's dead quiet. Receiving, transmitting, everything's been really good. So absolutely no problems on that with my Kia Niro here. Back to you, KI7ZEI. KI7ZEI, K7WFE. Well, thank you, Tim. Yeah, I'm eager to learn about it. We're all gonna have to learn this eventually. It's just in our future. So, glad to have that information, really appreciate it. Thanks so much, and by the way, one of my highly developed techniques which is very hard to acquire is the fact that Jack is backing me up on my text. So he's catching everything and I do my best, but he does better all the time. Thank you, Tim. Let's move on and talk to Robert. Where you been? It's been weeks, KJ, oh, wait, wait, wrong Robert. Yeah, we got a Robert number one here, KJ7ZRY, come ahead. Hello, that's kilo seven, this is Ulu Romeo Yankee. Yeah, I've had that accident just saps all your energy and I didn't have anything worth reporting other than I've got a cold and it sapped all my energy. So I kept you off from getting infected by staying off the net for the past two weeks. is not considerate of me. All day today and all day tomorrow, though, I am attending the Oregon ACS training class up at the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center. I am learning a lot. They give you exercises like with your laptop closed and your programming software nowhere in sight. The repeater you're using is down and you've gotta reprogram your radio right away for this other repeater, just using the little buttons on the front to go and everyone gets a little sweaty and we kind of figure it out and we check us out and we move on. So I'm learning a lot and I expect to learn a lot tomorrow and hopefully it will help me continue to be of use and of service, which is what I'm looking forward to. Other than that, real quick, I drive a 2020 Chevy Bolt. We've got a 220 charger, and we love it. It's nice to be back. Well, thank you, and thanks for mentioning that course in, would you say, Everett, if I recall, yeah. And that does, I mean, that kind of stuff, just the stuff you really ought to know that we don't train ourselves on. That's really wonderful. And I have to compliment you with your cold and your sapped energy. If I recall, that course starts at 8 a.m. today and tomorrow. So getting your foggy head up early and moving, congratulations, you're a dedicated emergency communications ham. Thank you, thank you for your service, I guess is the appropriate thing to say. Now let's go on to Robert number two, who's never number two. He's always number one in our hearts, KJ7JXM. Robert, where you been?