You lived with people every day and they never altered a degree. It was only when people had been off on a long trip, for years, that they shocked you.
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something. . .
Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An IceAge here, a million years of mountain-building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time.