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Okay, so sorry about that, Tim. I was about the antenna switch in this position, so apparently I was on the antenna, and now I am off the antenna, and the SWR hasn't changed. So I'm talking into my clear note, which is upstairs, and I have 100 feet of coax that runs from the iCom's IC7100 that's downstairs in our living room up to an antenna switch in Kami's office. In her office, she has her Yaesu 991 Alpha also connected to that antenna switch, and then outside, I've got that, I think it's a CX333 dual-band antenna. Yeah, I'm not coming in on the voterscope because I'm not coming in via RF. I should be coming in via the All-Star link. And then, yes, the truck I'm working on is a commercial. It's a Ford 2023 Ford F-550 or F-600, I'm not sure which one, but it's basically a Ford Super Duty truck with a 6.7 liter diesel engine in it. And this particular truck is getting what they call a pulp crane that is mounted just to the back of the cab and kind of unfolds like your arm to get out and reach and get stuff. And then it gets a 12 yard dump bed, a dump bed on the back of that, so it's quite the build. I'll try to take some pictures of it as I progress through it, and definitely try to get some photos and share those on. In a lot of the stuff we build from scratch. The bed comes pre-built, and the Paul Finger Crane comes pre-built, but we had to build the cab guard, all the mounting for the toolbox, the Paul Finger Crane hydraulic unit, and control box, and all that stuff. So it's quite the interesting setup. The dump bed has its own hydro pack that mounts behind the tool box. So it's a pretty intricate build. We laugh because we're putting, you know, it's 20 pounds of gear into a five-pound box. This particular one's more like 30 pounds or 40 pounds of gear into a five-pound box because it's, I mean, just about anything you can add to this truck, we're adding to it. So it's quite the stuff and that's the joy is, you know, my daytime job is I work for this company called Alboo Brothers and we build commercial vehicles from scratch. So we do a lot of work. I think this particular truck is for the city of Redmond and we do a lot of work for the city of Everett, Snohomish County, PUD, Sammamish, there's so many of them I can't even name them all but yeah we do quite a bit of work. I want to say there's about a dozen guys that are working there. There's constant chaos at the shop but it's It's a lot of fun and I'm learning quite a bit, getting better at my welding skills and grinding and cutting and fabbing and we're together, remind me and I'll show you some different little things that I do as well. So it's a lot of fun. Thanks for asking, Tim, and thanks for doing it. This is... Hi, Robert. Good to see you. We're working in the field that you prefer and enjoying the heck out of it, too, keeping busy. Sounds like not a lot of idle time there, even for the weekend. You're working on the weekend? Next we've got Kami, KJ7RAB. I'm guessing you're upstairs?