i want to coach john stenus, and my predecessor and so many of you knew him and he was known as the conscious of the senate, and i to deal to learn from to be a senator and job of the senator, and one of the things he said to me in the beginning, well, you know, i hope you will really think about how youel senator. a number of the pe them just swell [ laughter ] i see the historian over there has reported this. one of and i guess that is something that we had to think about as senators, but when he retired i went to see him at mississippi state university, and i sat down with him, and i said, senator fabulous career and meant so much to the state and the country, and i'm looking for the best pieces of advice and what would you really advice me to do, and he thought about it for a few minutes, and then he said, well, i would give you two pieces of advice. number one, buy don't rent. they never bought a house. they rented for 40 years. and that was good advice, and we took him up on it, and that was for a long time and the only equity i had in the portfolio, and then he said, the other thing is