And back, after a long absence and countless minor adventures to be detailed here, hundreds of pages of notes and so I'll warn you up front that while the people and events are most assuredly true the order of events isn't necessarily. So that, while I'm catching up and jumping around events remember that merely because I've recalled one before the other it's not an indication as to when it occurred, think of it instead as a bit of a puzzle..
Like any good physicist I'll disregard time, it's an inconvenient perception anyway, and too much attention paid to it will result in nothing being done whatsoever...