Juggling tests around (and eliminating several that simply are not even vaguely reasonable). Have a few that are passing now, but mostly it seemed like a good place for a mile-stone check-in because I think the code's starting to shape up enough to be reasonably worth rearranging significant bits
This seems to be getting closer to at least vaguely resembling a communications protocol that might make some sort of sense. It's still an ungodly mess, and I hate to leave it this way, but Real Life intrudes