Lets see 2 years per line of text. Here goes. I have a beautiful 27 year old daughter (Dara) who is an artist (oils) a wonderful wife Betzi and a 22 year old stepdaughter (Iris) who seems to be making it on her own in San Francisco. Yesssss! The photo is of my daughter 'cause I'm just another old gray guy and if you're really curious you can find a picture of me somewhere on the web. We're still living in New Mexico, about 12 miles outside of Albuquerque, in a steel and concrete structure surrounded by 5 acres of forest.

But we're not survivalists. I am no longer a mathematics professor, no longer an engineer, and I am no longer a manager in one big company or another. But I can't seem to stay retired, and so am currently on my second boot-strapped high tech start-up (www.htmicro.com for the curious). Let us know if you want to buy it for an obscene amount of money. Betzi & I swing dance (Lindy Hop & Balboa), I play jazz drums, and nearly all our friends are either jazz musicians or 20-30 year old swing dancers.

We travel to exotic places like Chicago, Atlanta, San Diego, Cleveland, NYC, etc to dance. I fix broken things around the house, garden, and don't play golf. We threw away our TV 22 years ago so we feel culturally disconnected but don't really seem to care.

My life in twenty lines and a photo. Oh. And dinner is on us if you are ever passing through New Mexico.