My wife, Karin, and I downsized a couple of years ago and moved a bit further out from Atlanta. We are still close to our two grandchildren and two of our three adult children.

I retired from HP years ago. I spent the first few years of retirement trying to determine what to do with my now-unneeded collection of suits and ties. Eventually, I determined I should do something more productive with my time. That didn’t work either, so I wrote a book, Zen and the Art of Christmas Letters (available on Amazon) which is much better than it sounds. You are no doubt thinking that is not difficult, since it sounds pretty bad.

Lately, I have been keeping busy trying to convince an agent to take my soon-to-be-completed novel to a publisher. You can learn about this and other fascinating details at my eponymous website: chuckstorla.com. Don’t you just love the word “eponymous?” There are too few opportunities to use it in this life, so I had to fit it in here.

My apologies if this update is filled with shameless self-promotion. I tried to get a publicist to promote my stuff, and could not make it happen. In the end, I decided to do it myself because I work much cheaper than they do and have no shame.