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Well, good morning to you, Daryl, and the assembled group here. I'm not going to run down the list of names and that. But sounds like everybody's got a bunch of stuff going on today. Bunch of people didn't sleep good. I slept great. Don't have to worry about taking medicine. But anyways, I'm in Ohio, headed back to the house. I'll be back about 3 o'clock this afternoon and be done for this week. don't think I'm going to go next week because Thanksgiving. That's usually a pretty slow week, so probably be two weeks before I have to come back to work. But this is going to be a one and done for me, Daryl. I'm coming into Cleveland, and the weather is sketchy. There's a lot of farms and stuff around here, and I see the seagulls have come in off the lake. And they're usually a harbinger of the weather on the lake is going to get ugly, which means it's going to affect driving. And Cleveland rush hour, I don't need to be talking. I'll be listening. And oh, yeah, yeah, I'm starting to pick up a little moisture on the windshield, so I was correct. But anyhow, it's been a good week. I've dodged all the funkiness so far. Reset real quick. And Dan, that book sounds interesting. If you're going to do an indoor antenna, one of the things you might want to think about is if you're going to go wires, there's a couple of fairly inexpensive remote wire antenna tuners that you can put right at the feed point, and it'll give you more usable frequencies than just trying to put up a single antenna or trying to put up multiple antennas, but that would be my recommendation there. I'm getting ready to build a Carolina Windham at the house. I've done some research, going to do a little different. Most people use a four to one ballon. I'm going to use a six to one ballon. The feed line is going to be part of the antenna, a 22-foot chunk of it with a choke at the bottom of it so it'll have vertical and horizontal polarization on the same antenna. Anyhow, I'm still torqued and tweaked about jumping a couple of weeks ago. I've been sharing my video. I tell you what, every time I share that, it's just like I'm jumping again. That was quite the experience. If I can get a seat on the next November water jump, I will be jumping again next year. I told my wife I was only going to do it once, and then I confessed I lied. I didn't lie on purpose, but man, it was so fun being around those people again, being around that atmosphere. I cannot convey what it does to you. you've never done it you can't you'll never understand but it it was just it was like a flying time machine and the fountain of youth put together because when I got on the airplane I was three days short of being 69 and when I stepped on the beach I was 21 but but I just had a great time and so we're gonna say seven threes listen along and everybody have a great day that each way Oh, wait, wait, one more thing. Gray, the volcano, I'm not familiar with that particular volcano. But of course, Oregon is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and dangerous. There's been a lot of reports coming out of the Seattle area that Mount Rainier has been having a lot of seismic activity, a lot of things happening there. And of course, I was 22 miles away from Mount St. Helens the day that it went up. And on the wrong side of the mountain, that was an interesting day. And any time you start poking holes in something like a volcano, the outcome's questionable. So there you go. W8, now back to you, Darryl. Everybody have a great day.