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Mike, Jeanette, and everyone on the net, I like the format, no questions. None of those where you have to think, especially the trivia ones. I just got back from feeding the cows, it's so hot out there my brain is just, I just want to chill. I just want to have to think. But anyhow, I live in Tahlequah. It's a Cherokee name, some say it means two is enough. But in Oklahoma here, it used to be Indian Territory and then it's statehood, it became Oklahoma. But I live within the Cherokee Nation, which is 14 counties. It's a reservation that is different than other reservations across the country. We're a true sovereign nation, like sovereign within a sovereign, if you will there. We built the first towns in Oklahoma. We built the first colleges, the female and male seminaries. It was the first higher education west of the Mississippi when we came here in the 1830s. At a time when women weren't even going to college, we had a female seminary. It is still there today, but at statehood it got turned over and now it's Northeastern State University. The foundation still has 18 something, I don't know when it was built, but it's stamped on the foundation. Of course they added on over the years and different stuff like that. But the original seminary building is where NSU is.