diff --git a/hunks/adhoc/saturn.js b/hunks/adhoc/saturn.js
index c5cc8b766ae76d327a0d19bbcaf5b2e76e29844a..b3ca26135cc3fcc3d91262f52d379d161362d90e 100644
--- a/hunks/adhoc/saturn.js
+++ b/hunks/adhoc/saturn.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import {
   vSum
 } from '../../libs/smallvectors.js'
 
-export default function Saturn(){
+export default function Saturn() {
   Hunkify(this)
 
   let inpts = this.input('array', 'posn')
@@ -37,75 +37,59 @@ export default function Saturn(){
   // current states,
   let feed = 10 // (units/s)
   let lt = [] // last transform (since we know time, this is our speed data)
-  let position = [0,0,0] // we track position...
+  let position = [0, 0, 0] // we track position...
   let posUpdated = false
 
   let calculateNextIncrement = () => {
     // for now, straightforward: current position w/r/t path,
     // increment is this posn -> next target, at rate ...
     // for simplicity, we can assume that we're always going from where we're at to the [1]th point in the path,
-    let vect = [0,0,0]
+    let vect = [0, 0, 0]
     let dist = vDist(position, path[0])
     vect.forEach((axis, i) => {
       vect[i] = (path[0][i] - position[i]) / dist
     })
     // easy increment is just this vector * rate / period
-    let timeSeg = [0,0,0]
+    let timeSeg = [0, 0, 0]
     timeSeg.forEach((axis, i) => {
       timeSeg[i] = vect[i] * (feed / period)
     })
     // now, is this a step-over ? some fast-slow-math for this:
     let np = vSum(position, timeSeg)
-    if(vDist(np, position) > vDist(position, path[0])){
+    if (vDist(np, position) > vDist(position, path[0])) {
       // ts is just to get us exactly to it ..
       timeSeg.forEach((axis, i) => {
         timeSeg[i] = path[0][i] - position[i]
       })
-      console.log('passing')
       path.shift()
     }
     return timeSeg
   }
 
   this.loop = () => {
-    if(path.length < pathBufferSize && inpts.io()){
-      path.push(inpts.get())
+    if (path.length < pathBufferSize && inpts.io()) {
+      let np = inpts.get()
+      console.log('new pt\t', path.length, np)
+      path.push(np)
     }
-    if(allclear()){
+    if (allclear() && path.length > 0) {
       // this is our major timestep, and should happen only once-every-segment
-      if(path.length > 0){
-        // we have items in the path,
-        // we should calculate an ideal trajectory from our current position and speed
-        // probably recalculating the whole thing, and then send that out...
-        let ts = calculateNextIncrement()
-        console.log('time seg', ts)
-        position = vSum(position, ts)
-        posUpdated = true
-        /*
-        console.log('nt', nt)
-        // update internal state,
-        position.forEach((axis, i) => {
-          position[i] += nt[i]
-        })
-        console.log('position', position)
-        */
-        // have to do this so that flowcontrol happens, gating us
-        outx.put(0)
-        outy.put(0)
-        outz.put(0)
-        /*
-        let np = op.shift() // actually, calc next transform based on last posn' and the increment we want now
-        cp = np
-        posUpdated = true
-        */
-        // actually like:
-        /*
-        lt = np
-        cp += lt
-        */
-      }
+      // path length reads @ 26, but NaN ??
+      // do check ... if anything is NaN, print all path, OK. maybe reference problem?
+      console.log(path.length)
+      // we have items in the path,
+      // we should calculate an ideal trajectory from our current position and speed
+      // probably recalculating the whole thing, and then send that out...
+      let ts = calculateNextIncrement()
+      console.log('time seg\t', ts)
+      position = vSum(position, ts)
+      posUpdated = true
+      // send 'em
+      outx.put(ts[0])
+      outy.put(ts[1])
+      outz.put(ts[2])
     }
-    if(!outp.io() && posUpdated){
+    if (!outp.io() && posUpdated) {
       outp.put(position)
       posUpdated = false
     }
diff --git a/hunks/adhoc/tpath.js b/hunks/adhoc/tpath.js
index 21614da51e36c933f5de5545ed2857746f46a371..7ee984701ce1a74fba385a8bfcf3380ebdf7dd21 100644
--- a/hunks/adhoc/tpath.js
+++ b/hunks/adhoc/tpath.js
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import {
   State
 } from '../hunks.js'
 
-import * as expath from '../../test_files/example-path.js'
+// example-path-long.js also exists... 
+import * as expath from '../../test_files/example-path-small.js'
 
 export default function TPFCOUT(){
   Hunkify(this)
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ export default function TPFCOUT(){
   // copy this in au manuel
   let ogpath = expath.default.arr
   let path = []
-  let go = true 
+  let go = true
 
   let outPosn = this.output('array', 'position')
   let outReset = this.state('boolean', 'reset', false)
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ export default function TPFCOUT(){
 
   // copies out, one at a time, fc pressure
   this.loop = () => {
-    if(path.length && go){
+    if(path.length > 0 && go){
       if(!outPosn.io()){
         outPosn.put(path.shift())
       }
diff --git a/test_files/example-path.js b/test_files/example-path-long.js
similarity index 100%
rename from test_files/example-path.js
rename to test_files/example-path-long.js
diff --git a/test_files/example-path-small.js b/test_files/example-path-small.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e6ce802b608497ab0e4ebe98552d950997743fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_files/example-path-small.js
@@ -0,0 +1,1149 @@
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