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Well, Dave, in a great city, in the county surrounding Albuquerque is Bernard Lelo County. I sold them a whole bunch of computers. And they were great, great people. But it's interesting, the air is so thin there, the air is so thin, like in Colorado, that the Major League Baseball team in Denver, Colorado Rockies, the air is so thin that the players, when they come up the bat, they hit the ball further because the air is so thin. So if you're a baseball player and you come to play in Denver in the air, you're going to hit your home runs a lot faster. But Albuquerque is filled with stories. And I could probably talk for hours of my experiences in Albuquerque working there. But what's interesting is Los Alamos Labs, up by Santa Fe, north of Albuquerque, is where the first A-bomb was made and where it was exploded. Los Alamos Labs was an incredibly advanced high-tech area. And as an advanced high-tech area, they would buy the most sophisticated, biggest, fastest computers in the world. And one of the computers I learned to work on was made by Seymour Cray in the 60s and 70s. Seymour Cray made his large supercomputers in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. And the word supercomputer was invented around his computers that he made. He used to work for Control Data. And he made the 6600, the 7600, and then he started his own company called Gray Computer and made the work largest and fastest computers that ever were called Cray's. And this is second, third-hand information. But one of the things I learned is Los Alamos Labs wanted the biggest and fastest supercomputers in the world. And they told – the press was interviewing the officials up there, and they were asking them about their computers. And they say, we'll take serial number one of any computer that Seymour Cray builds. Yeah, so they had a bunch of Cray computers, but they said any computer that Seymour Cray builds will take serial number one. But I say, this is filled with stories. And I read all the books on the development of the atomic bomb. I think one of the best books I wrote, I think was Richard Rhodes. He wrote a great book. But I love the area, and it's filled with stories. Back to you today.