known and the unknown, knowledge, definite knowledge, understanding, quite so public, not quite so hidden, influence, direction home, weights and balances, shifting gravitational patters, fluxes, pushing and pulling, path of an astrophysical body disturbed, tracked, especially when planets start aligning, after years, years, must be 6, 7 years, cycles, it's always cycles, i've been here before, i've done this, it's not that unfamiliar, the steps, the stairs, the crazed looks, the beer, oh, the beer, and fear, but you gotta wonder, does it get to me, does it matter, does it bother? with so many forces at work and at play, so many equations, so many constraints, parameters, controls, the experiment gone awry, the very act of observation creating observabilities, and a test, for something simpler, a command line existence