The majority of the included figures are photographs that I’ve taken over the years, as well others that have ended up in family photo albums. But I used my cell phone to reproduce a number of photographs (like those from my high school yearbooks) as well, while I had to download a couple images from the web to fully illustrate my memories. However, Missy (Harris) Zatzkis was responsible for figures 4.2-4.7 (at least she supplied them to me), while our wedding photographer (Eliot Khuner) took figures 5.16, 5.17, 5.19, 5.20, 5.21, 5.22 appearing in Chapter 5, and Robin Winchester shared figure 7.7.1.
As noted in the Forward, besides relying upon my own encyclopedic, comprehensive memory (ie: I can spell those two words without having to look them up), I’ve consulted a number of people to double check a number of the events documented here, especially my brother, um, er, oh yes … Ned – Ned’s the name of my brother – regarding growing up and wargaming. Although I think I have a crystal-clear memory of the Leon Fibonacci saga from high school, Kelly Haughton, as the major perpetrator, was able to supply more of the inside story. Missy Zatzkis was also invaluable in recalling a lot from my undergraduate days at Berkeley, while Shelley Liberto and Larry Bardoff helped me with more details. Barbara McOwen was equally important in helping me flesh out details of the Cabbage Band noted in Chapter 5, while Tanya Drlik did the same for the “Olkowski days” in Chapter 6, and Jazan Higgins for anecdotes in Appendix IX. There were several more folks who helped with a few other memories: I regret my mighty memory can’t pull out their names, but I reckon they know who they are (unless their memories are on par with mine). I am also very grateful to Pete Oboyski for tutoring me in WordPress, which allowed me to get this story out.
Any and all errors herein are the responsibility of others alone, especially our cat (Jimmy “Trouble”) and the guy driving the Beamer who cut me off on 580 the other day.