The executive director of the American Society of comptrollers. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming one of my favorites, robert hale. [applause] good morning. How is everyone doing . Listen, i am glad to be here. For a number of reasons. One of them is that comptrollers do not get invited out that much. I have a number of stories. Bad news is you have a serious problem and if you dont have an immediate transplant, youre going to die. But the good news is i have three donors, you can choose any one of them. One of them is a former olympic athlete and prior to her demise, she was practicing every day for the olympics. Another one was a former triathlon athlete and he was swimming and running everyday. The third one is an 80yearold comptroller. Which one would you like . And he thought for a moment and said i will take the comptroller. They prepared for the surgery and should the mans wife said why would you she was a heart transplant donor of an 80yearold . And he said, his