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Good afternoon. I had to relay a couple stories. One of them is kind of childish, a little pat on my own back, but I was talking about utilizing those lithium-ion batteries I have. I ended up with three 100-amp ones and a 200-watt inverter. I ended up housing them in one of a Costco black and yellow containers, plastic ones, and it was working out great and I mounted the inverter on top. I think my next time into town I'm going to stop at Harbor Freight and get forecasters on it because the thing weighs about 100 pounds. But I tested it out, works great, puts out 110 volts and I could do the living room for at least a day. So There's that. But the funny one is, so my weather station here fall to disarray, and it was mostly because my G5 RV antenna would interfere with it horribly. And it was always beeping at me any time I'd transmit, so I'd just send it off and run a month. I put up the new dipole, and I don't have the RFI issues I had with the G5 RV. and I reset everything, and it was like, hey, you know, I should take that weather vane down. The sensor itself, it's up rather high, so I got up on the ladder, pulled it off, and I was cleaning it out. I ran water through the rain gauge and removed the top of the rain gauge, and I ran some more water through it, and I said, you know what, I should take some alcohol, isopropyl, and do a real nice job on the inside. I brought it into the Ham Shack, and I had a scene out of Harry Potter. All these little spiders came out. I mean, a lot of them. I'm not even gonna try to exaggerate how many, but there were a lot. And so I've had daughters and sons, but you know how little girls scream at a real high pitch? That was me. That was me, sir. And I finally got it cleaned up, modded up, and everything's working fine. But I thought you might want to hear that one. KI7RMU, N7, JBJ, good morning.