I was in the middle of two historical trends.

I'm back. Some days not enough happens to make it worth turning the computer on. Saturday and Sunday were just there. The only good news is that the 49ers won their exhibition football game Friday night. I explicitly state 'football' in the full realization that someone might confuse them with the State College at Long Beach teams.
I am reaching a critical point in the book on quarks. I got so involved this morning I forgot to walk. They're only missing one of the quarks.
I have realized that I was in the middle of two historical trends in the course of my life. The first was in the 60's and 70's when I was in the middle of the grandest time for particle physics. Spending time at Stanford and Berkeley I stood at the center of the physics universe being bombarded by unseen ephemeral particles of all sorts.
The second was in the 80's when attended computer club meeting with the two Steves (Jobs an Wozniac) and hadn't a clue to who they were or what was happening. I worked with the founders of Intel and several other seminal companies. I interviewed with Nobel Prize winners.
All in all a life in the middle of a whirl wind lived with a sense of having just missed the mark.
Missed the mark confuses me about how we're all on this flight together.

Dick