Oh, yeah, let's roll into Lavin County now. So you thought about it. Who planted this bug in your head to go? Hey, Mike, you spent all this time being a federal agent now. Let's bring you back to your roots back when you're a real cop back when you were head Howard County.

So when I, when I was in California, I got a job offer from Booz Allen. So as you know, Booz Allen's a, you know, a pretty good strategic firm there. And they actually came in and we're going to pay pretty much what I was already making, you know, as a DA agent out there in California.

So, yeah, I talked to a financial advisor and, you know, you're looking at retirement, you're looking at loss like, okay, this is pretty good offer. It's too good on offer to turn down.

So I ended up taking a job back here on the East Coast and my wife in the meantime had done the research on this area. We didn't worry when I was in headquarters before I lived in Stafford.

Oh, that was a drive.

Oh, yeah, that was, yeah, it was awful for me to get to the office. And I mean, honestly, in public affairs, the hours were like off the chart. So I, you know, generally, I would leave the house about 515 in the morning, mostly to beat the traffic and get on the HOV lanes.

But by the time I got there, I mean, I try to get a quick workout in and then I had to go back.

Back then, you know, you didn't have all these, you know, you couldn't pull the articles like on the computer, like you can now every single day, everything was done in paper.

So I would actually have to cut, cut the articles out and put them on paste them on every morning, like for my, we had, we had like six or seven papers, we had the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, LA time.

So I have to cut out any articles that were related to drugs or DEA or anything like that, and put them on every morning on a sheet, you know, when I remember Bill, Bill Bryant, who ended up being the superintendent under Asa out there in Arkansas State Police, he would, he would always kid me about, you know, cutting paper dolls in the morning.

I was, I'd be cutting these articles, I'd be pacing them. And then of course, everybody on the 12th floor and everybody on the 11th floor started wanting. So I'd have to run these copies. I don't like 40 or 50 pages of articles, and I'd be running these copies like all more and along to try to get them to.

So it was just, it was just so much, so much work to get that done. So, but anyway, so, so when I went out to, so I went to California, I came back and I got this job to Booz Allen.

And as a subject matter expert. And when I was there, Pete, my testers, so you probably know Pete, right? Yeah, very well. Yeah.

So, Pete, it come on at the same time. Now, my wife had stayed back, stayed back to finish the school year. I took the job like in November of 2008 to kind of get my feet, what get things going and then to purchase a house before they could come out when it, when the school year ended.

So I was actually staying with my in-laws in Rockville, Maryland. And I actually thought about Maryland, probably for about 30 seconds. And I know.

So it's against Maryland, but they ranked 50th on the list of states for best places to retire.

Yeah. So I looked at, I was like, you know, I mean, I grew up in Maryland. I like Maryland, but I was like, nah, not at the stage of my life.

So, but we didn't really want to go to Stanford because when I looked at, you know, telling you the stories about having to get up and then, you know, get up to work early and then to spend.

I mean, honestly, it's like, you know, you're trying to, you're trying to clock out at like 6, 630 at night and all of a sudden you get the call from, you know, call comes in from Miami.

Hey, we had a couple of ages. I got charged with the organ trouble for this or that. I'm like, oh my god. Here we go. So the hours were exhausting. And then, and then that commute was just awful to Stanford.

It was awful, awful. So we figured, let's look at Loud County low crime rate, good, good reputation for schools.

So we decided to tell recently.

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