 Today is a special day, it is the retirement celebration for my thesis advisor, Suzanne Holley. Today is a neat day. We're going to be celebrating the retirement of my thesis advisor, Suzanne Holley. I have a copy of her thesis right here. I've had the really special fortune in my career so far to have worked with somebody for so long. I first started working with Suzanne in 2005 or 2006, and after a few years I came back to Seattle as a grad student and was able to do my PhD with her. A PhD is a long time, it's roughly six years, you work together, you travel together, you develop this relationship, this mentor-mentee relationship, a friendship, you learn a lot about someone over that period of time. And now I had the good fortune for the last couple of years to have been sort of a colleague with someone who has brought me up for so long. It's a special privilege to get to work with somebody for so long that you admire, to get to learn from a very early stage all the way into now sort of a more advanced stage in my career. Congrats. Here I am at my retirement party, and loving all the people, waiting for doves, loving pizza, and loving my man Jim. Look at this. You made it. We made it. I was around when you first joined the university in 1999, I believe, as a research professor the thing that I was struck by was the way she stepped in mentoring students, ran the observing course. She really stepped into a role of service to our community on the behalf of how she has helped the students, how she has helped the department, how she has helped the university as a whole, and how she has served me personally as a mentor. I want to thank you. And it has been the honor and privilege of life to be a professor here for the past quarter century. The reason I was, that I got up every morning and wanted to come to work was because of my graduate students, it really made it worth coming to work every day and I just really appreciate that. I promised Tom, or actually I instructed Tom, speeches are not going to be more than 10 minutes and I probably already got over that. Congratulations. Yeah. You want to do a high five?