 This is something I didn't think was going to happen, but I'm very pleased that it is. Well, I was a geologist. I worked mainly with the government. The last geology job I had was with the National Park Service, and I traveled all over the country. Every place they sent me was a national park, so it was very nice. And I spent all my summers in Alaska during that time doing field work for the park service. Four kids, my son, the eldest, graduated with his bachelor's in civil engineering from Mines. My eldest daughter, she graduated with a bachelor's and a master's in civil engineering from Mines. I've got one in her sophomore year at Regis and Nursing, and one is just graduating from high school. My wife was a police officer. My father was a treasury agent. And I had come on the department very briefly in 1983, and I was here for about a year and a half and then left the department for the last four-year stint as a geologist, returning in 1988. My wife told me we were about to have our second kid, and it was about time that I came home and stayed home. I really enjoyed the geology, and I loved the travel, but I have not regretted a bit making the change. I started out in District 2, and District 2 will always have fond memories for me, and a great place to work, a great community. I love going to the community meetings and there. And I worked in District 2 as an officer and also as a lieutenant, but a great, great community. Also, I live in District 1, and I spent almost nine years in District 1, both as an officer and as a lieutenant. The community I live in is a fabulous community, a very diverse, great place to live, and it's one of the things that makes Denver so great is the type of community that we have there. You get kind of immediate rewards for police work. You get that feeling of making a difference almost every day. Either you make an arrest, you intervene in a domestic violence type situation. So you get those kind of immediate rewards, and of course there's adrenaline at times, but it's not a job, it's a way of life. One that sticks out in my mind was a domestic violence that was occurring at the end of an ambulance, and I just walked around the corner and the female in the situation had a derringer, and she had shot it in the air so it was empty. Of course I didn't know that at the time, but I went around the corner and she turns, one of those things where a reflexive turn turns with the gun in my direction and I kind of immediately fell backward, drew down on her and I'm laying on the ground saying, drop it, and she drops it, but it's one of those things, see that could have been much worse than it was. If I had reacted and if she hadn't dropped it, but you get those feelings that, I'm glad I just didn't draw and shoot. Police work is a career, I think is something, there's a special type of person who goes into police work. I think it's a service orientation and that most people will tell you, why'd you join the police department? Well, I wanted to make a difference in my community and we have a very great city, I mean, just look at all the investment that the people of Denver have made. We have new sports facilities, we have a new convention center, we have a new, next to the convention center, a huge hotel that the city helped bring about. There's a lot of investment that people in Denver are forward looking, they're willing to invest in their future and I think to be a police officer with that service orientation in a city like Denver, it's a great combination.