While we will miss having Ian and his dog Cooper around on a daily basis, it is always a good sign when your offspring can leave the nest. The things we will miss include: regular card playing; Ian cooking (occasionally) for us and introducing new culinary delights; someone to help with cleaning and vacuuming; Zephyr and Cooper running wild in the house; regular axe throwing in the back yard; daily updates on progress towards a gun range in Granbury; John getting to do his regular running with two dogs; access to Ian's impressive set of tools and having a live-in personal trainer.

What we won't miss: Ian's O'Dark Thirty departures for his early sessions at Equinox; double the amount of dog fur tumble-weeds; double the amount of vacuuming to deal with the aforementioned masses of dog fur; and exacerbated barking frenzies due to neighbor's dogs barking, squirrels, rabbits, garbage trucks, airplanes, helicopters, birds, and dogs on TV. The move is good for Ian, as his apartment is much closer to Equinox, there is a great dog park nearby for Cooper to socialize with other dogs, he now has neighbors that are much closer to his age, and, we suspect, is a better arrangement for his dating life.

Ian has also been meeting the two Chrises to go roller blading on a fairly regular basis and catching up with some other skaters from back in the Eisenburg Skatepark days. Ian continues excercizing his artistic muscles. John and Patrice think that his drawing of a well armed Monk is wonderful.

Patrice, Ian, and John hope to visit family in Houston in January.

In a cross species biology merger experiment gone seriously wrong, Ian and Cooper were merged into a single new life form called the "Six Legged Dogaroo". Fortunately the alien being who performed this experiment agreed that this was a mistake, separated our son and his dog, and promised never to repeat the experiment while on earth.

After her move, Ashley has continued to see her partner of five years, Justin. Earlier in the year they went camping in Death Valley and later in the year to Bakersfield in search of fossils and came up with a bounty crop of Shark's Teeth as seen in the photos on the near left.

John had business in late November in Northern California and flew down to LA and spent the weekend with Ashley and helped her explore her new neighborhood including some local art galleries and restaurants, and drinking establishments. John is happy to report that Ashley's Kitties Gwen and Senor Beau seem to have forgiven her for moving and seem to be adapting to their new environment. Although Gwen and Senor Beau were not entirely happy to have to share their new apartment with John, they decided not to severely lacerate him. More recently, Ashley decided to let her kitties explore (on a leash) the world outside of their apartment. See the video on the left. Gwen seems to think this is how she can get Ashley to go where Gwen wants to go. Senor Beau does not seem to enjoy exploration.

In 2022 Ashley has been very active in efforts to increase awareness of her business. This includes attending, speaking at, and creating workshops that emphasize making taboo subjects and dynamics between partners more accessible and enhances the different layers of intimacy. As mentioned last year several local therapists and communities in the Los Angeles area have seen the value of Ashley's work and they are continue to send her clients and ask her to lead workshops and discussion groups.

Patrice took this picture of Zephyr while he was trying to see what was going on outside of his dog room. This photo perfectly catches the essence of the youngest Randall.

Inspired by some visits to the Dallas Arboretum, and the Cottonwood Art Festival (where we had not been for a couple of years), Patrice has also spent some time on developing new painting techniques using her chemical engineering skills and variety of materials to create some interesting space, sky, and aquatic (at least that is what John sees) abstract environments. She has even started a representational painting of a multi-appendage ocean critter. Patrice likes space music. We have everything that Jonn Serrie has released. She also likes space art. While "surfing the net" she came upon Don Dixon's Website. Dixon has painted cover art for many SciFi novels, including Isaac Asimov. When John heard about this he discovered that Dixon had painted the cover art for one of John's (and it turns out Isaac's ) favorite Asimov novels, "The Gods Themselves". Not only that, (I am NOT making this up!) but he still had the original art which he agreed to sell to John and threw in one the paperback book covers. John had this framed.

In Zyvex Labs commercialization efforts, John has been aided by: financial Zyvexians Barbara Johnson, Ria Choksi, and Dave Peters; DOE supplied advisors Louise Epstein, Chuck DeMilo, and Tony Simpson; our Quality Management consultant Tab Ashwill; and a new consultant Dean Adams. In 2022 these efforts have begun to pay off. In 2021 we sold 0 of our primary product, ZyVector, a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) Lithography controller and eeked out a very small profit. In 2022 we have sold 4 ZyVectors, will have a respectable profit, and, more importantly, have made great progress expanding the opportunities for commercial revenue. This has allowed us to plan for growth in 2023.

John Hits the Road: John had essentially no business travel in 2020 and 2021, but 2022 included several business trips for both Zyvex Labs and Teliatry.

• In January, John and Rahul Saini go to Orlando Florida for Teliatry and to say Hi! to Goofy.
• In March, John and James Owen go to Chicago for the March APS Meeting.
• In May, John traveled to DC to give a talk for Teliatry (Rahul was sick) to the Philosophical Society of Washington (PSW).
• In June, John and James Owen go to New Orleans for the EIPBN.
• Also in June, John off to DC again for a talk by Charles Tahan on Quantum Technology at the PSW.
• Also in June, John and Rahul go to Austin for a large Veterinary Neurologist convention (the Teliatry booth was mobbed).
• In July, John and S.V. Sreenivasan go to DARPA in search of heterogeneous integration dollars.
• In Sept, John, James, and Robin go to Europe for the Belgian Beer, MNE, Univ. of Zurich, ScientaOmicron, and Rieslings.
• In Oct, John went to Quebec for the Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop and to mispronounce many French words.
• In Nov, John went to DARPA forward (TAMU) to see S.V., ShaC, and drink Shiner Cheer at the Dixie Chicken.
• Also in Nov, John & James went to San Fran for a DOE review. John visited Dave and Valerie Long and then flew to LA to visit Ashley.