| Story Timeline | ||||||
| Alexi | News | Mike's age | Dimi's age | |||
| 1962 | Aleksandr born | |||||
| 1980 | Alexi and Tatya Antanov married, he is 18 | Afghan War, Moscow Olympics | ||||
| 1984 | Mike is born in Yessentuki, Russia | 0 | ||||
| 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev elected leader | |||||
| 1990 | Vasili migrates to USA | 6 | ||||
| 1992 | Alexi & Tatya migrate to USA, Hoboken, NJ | Soviet Union falls apart, free market | 8 | |||
| 2002 | Mike starts undergrad college at Rutgers | 18 | ||||
| 2006 | Mike gets a internship at Amgen | Bay area biotech companies start boom | 22 | |||
| 2006 | Mike starts masters college at UCB | Pays in-state tuition | 22 | |||
| 2008 | Aleksandr and Tatya Antanov die | Mike skips funeral | 24 | |||
| Mike | 2009 | Mike starts his PhD program | 5 years full stipend, assistantship, GSE | 25 | ||
| 2013 | Boston marathon bombing | 29 | ||||
| 2014 | Mike completes PhD | SF Giants win world series | 30 | |||
| 2014 | Mike joins NoordKuur, moves to NJ | Apartment in Hamilton | 30 | |||
| 2014 | Mike meets Jay at NoordKuur, Princeton | Laugh about Bridgegate; Rutgers | 30 | |||
| Dimi | 2014 | Vasili sets Mike up mail order bride | Mike visits Moscow for a week | 30 | ||
| 2015 | Mike marries Yulia | K-1 Visa, prenup, speaks some English | 31 | |||
| 2016 | Dimitri born in NJ | January major snowstorm | 32 | 0 | ||
| 2017 | Yulia unpleasantness | 33 | 1 | |||
| 2018 | Yulia returns to Russia | 34 | 2 | |||
| 2020 | Mike promoted to be in charge of wet lab | COVID starts | 36 | 4 | ||
| 2024 | Prologue | COVID gone | 40 | 8 | ||
| Jay | Jay's Age | |||||
| 1984 | Jay is born in Cape May, NJ | in a hotel, don't like working other people | 0 | |||
| 1999 | Starts keeping books for family owned inns | Sept: Hurricane Floyd, 8 dead, $250M | 15 | |||
| 2000 | Writes Pustak in Python | 16 | ||||
| 2002 | Jay in Stevens, BioTechnology, Hoboken | Scholarship $5k | 18 | |||
| 2006 | Jay graduates from Stevens | 22 | ||||
| 2007 | Stops keeping books | 23 | ||||
| 2007 | Jay goes to WPI BioMedical Engineering | 23 | ||||
| 2009 | Jay meets Lola in Boston | Marathon won by Kenyans & Ethiopians | 25 | |||
| 2010 | Jay graduates, marries Lola | 26 | ||||
| 2011 | Jay joins NoordKuur,Proj Mgr, moves to NJ | Morristown | 27 | |||
| 2014 | Meets Mike when Mike joins | 30 | ||||
| 2020 | Promoted to Program Manager | 36 | ||||
| 2020 | Gets dog, Doomba | 36 | ||||
| 2020 | Buys new house in West Windsor | 36 | ||||
| Lola | ||||||
| 1982 | Lola born in Columbia | Age | ||||
| 2008 | Lola arrives in the US, works at Macy's | Baby Bush -> Obama | 26 | |||
| 2009 | Meets Jay | 27 | ||||
| 2010 | Marries Jay | 28 | ||||
| 2011 | Moves to NJ with Jay | 29 | ||||
| 2011 | Gets job as bank teller | 29 | ||||
| 2018 | Promotion | 36 | ||||
| 2020 | New job as Loan Officer/Financial Advisor | 38 | ||||
| Vasili | 1967 | Vasili born | Age | |||
| 1986 | Vasili marries Galina in Moscow, both are 19 | She is pregnant | 19 | |||
| 1986 | Vasili has a child, he is 20 | 19 | ||||
| 1990 | Vasili migrates to USA | 23 | ||||
| 1991 | Vasili has another child | 24 | ||||
| 1992 | Alexi & Tatya migrate to USA, Hoboken, NJ | 25 | ||||
| 2014 | Vasili sets Mike up mail order bride | 47 | ||||
| 2015 | Vasili gets a loan, buys new shop. Age 48 | His kids are 29 and 24; grandchild | 48 | |||
| Mike&Jay | ||||||
| NoordKuur | 2009 | NoordKuur starts | 25 | |||
| 2011 | Jay joins NoordKuur,Proj Mgr, moves to NJ | Morristown | 27 | |||
| 2014 | Mike joins NoordKuur, moves to NJ | 30 | ||||
| 2016 | BioSimulator is functional | 32 | ||||