diff --git a/add.go b/add.go
index 6813aa8..d4bd08a 100644
--- a/add.go
+++ b/add.go
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ func (x *Hypervisor) SetMemoryGB(gb int) {
 	x.Memory = int64(gb * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
 }
 
-func (x *Hypervisor) GetMemoryPrintable() string {
-	i := x.Memory / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%d GB", i)
-}
-
 func (all *Droplets) oldFindDroplet(name string) *Droplet {
 	for _, d := range all.Droplets {
 		if d.Hostname == name {
@@ -111,7 +106,7 @@ func (c *NewCluster) AddDropletLocal(name string, hypername string) *Droplet {
 	d := &Droplet{
 		Hostname: name,
 	}
-	d.LocalOnly = hypername
+	d.LocalOnly = "yes on: " + hypername
 	d.Current = new(Current)
 	d.Current.Hypervisor = hypername
 	d.StartState = DropletState_OFF
@@ -121,32 +116,6 @@ func (c *NewCluster) AddDropletLocal(name string, hypername string) *Droplet {
 	return d
 }
 
-// This isn't for the marketing department
-// so this isn't going to use 'MiB' and 'GiB'
-func HumanFormatBytes(b int64) string {
-	if b < 2000 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%d B", b)
-	}
-
-	kb := int(b / 1024)
-	if kb < 2000 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%d KB", kb)
-	}
-
-	mb := int(b / (1024 * 1024))
-	if mb < 2000 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%d MB", mb)
-	}
-
-	gb := int(b / (1024 * 1024 * 1024))
-	if gb < 2000 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%d GB", gb)
-	}
-
-	tb := int(b / (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024))
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%d TB", tb)
-}
-
 func (c *NewCluster) BlankFields() {
 	loop := c.DropletsAll() // get the list of droplets
 	for loop.Scan() {
diff --git a/change.go b/change.go
index dc77b0c..04c5b20 100644
--- a/change.go
+++ b/change.go
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ func convertToString(x any) string {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%d", x.(int))
 	case uint:
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%d", x.(uint))
+	case *DropletState:
+		var s *DropletState
+		s = x.(*DropletState)
+		return s.String()
+	case DropletState:
+		var s DropletState
+		s = x.(DropletState)
+		return s.String()
 	case bool:
 		if x.(bool) {
 			return "true"
@@ -128,6 +136,34 @@ func (d *Droplet) SetCpus(b int64) {
 	log.Info("Set the number of cpus for the droplet", b)
 }
 
+// update the droplet memory
+func (d *Droplet) SetState(newState DropletState) {
+	if d.Current == nil {
+		d.Current = new(Current)
+	}
+	if d.Current.State == newState {
+		// nothing has changed
+		return
+	}
+	switch newState {
+	case DropletState_ON:
+		d.Current.OnSince = timestamppb.New(time.Now())
+		d.Current.OffSince = nil
+	case DropletState_OFF:
+		d.Current.OffSince = timestamppb.New(time.Now())
+		d.Current.OnSince = nil
+	default:
+		// zero on OnSince to indicate something hickup'd?
+		// not sure if this should be done here. probably trust qemu dom0 instead
+		// but I can't do that right now so for now this will work
+		d.Current.OnSince = timestamppb.New(time.Now())
+		d.Current.OffSince = timestamppb.New(time.Now())
+	}
+	d.Current.State = newState
+	d.NewChangeEvent("STATE", d.Current.State, newState)
+	log.Info("Droplet", d.Hostname, "changed state from", d.Current.State, "to", newState)
+}
+
 // records an event that the droplet changed state (aka turned on, turned off, etc)
 func (c *NewCluster) ChangeDropletState(d *Droplet, newState DropletState) error {
 	if c == nil {
diff --git a/droplet.proto b/droplet.proto
index f52fa7f..dd1b30a 100644
--- a/droplet.proto
+++ b/droplet.proto
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ message Current {
 	string                          full_xml        = 4;    // the full libvirt xml to import
         google.protobuf.Timestamp       last_poll       = 5;    // the last time we heard anything from this droplet
         string                          image_url       = 6;    // url to the image
+        google.protobuf.Timestamp       off_since       = 7;    // when the droplet was turned off
+        google.protobuf.Timestamp       on_since        = 8;    // when the droplet was turned on
 }
 
 message Archive {
diff --git a/human.go b/human.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6a2fbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/human.go
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+package virtbuf
+
+// mostly just functions related to making STDOUT
+// more readable by us humans
+
+// also function shortcuts the do limited formatting (haha, who remembers COBOL?)
+// so reporting tables of the status of what droplets and hypervisors
+// are in text columns and rows that can be easily read in a terminal
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func oldGetDurationStamp(t time.Time) string {
+	// Get the current time
+	currentTime := time.Now()
+
+	// Calculate the duration between t current time
+	duration := currentTime.Sub(t)
+
+	return FormatDuration(duration)
+}
+
+// This isn't for the marketing department
+// so this isn't going to use 'MiB' and 'GiB'
+func HumanFormatBytes(b int64) string {
+	if b < 2000 {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%d B", b)
+	}
+
+	kb := int(b / 1024)
+	if kb < 2000 {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%d KB", kb)
+	}
+
+	mb := int(b / (1024 * 1024))
+	if mb < 2000 {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%d MB", mb)
+	}
+
+	gb := int(b / (1024 * 1024 * 1024))
+	if gb < 2000 {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%d GB", gb)
+	}
+
+	tb := int(b / (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024))
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%d TB", tb)
+}
+
+func FormatDuration(d time.Duration) string {
+	result := ""
+
+	// check if it's more than a year
+	years := int(d.Hours()) / (24 * 365)
+	if years > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dy", years)
+		return result
+	}
+
+	// check if it's more than a day
+	days := int(d.Hours()) / 24
+	if days > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dd", days)
+		return result
+	}
+
+	// check if it's more than an hour
+	hours := int(d.Hours()) % 24
+	if hours > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dh", hours)
+		return result
+	}
+
+	// check if it's more than a minute
+	minutes := int(d.Minutes()) % 60
+	if minutes > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dm", minutes)
+		return result
+	}
+
+	// check if it's more than a second
+	seconds := int(d.Seconds()) % 60
+	if seconds > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%ds", seconds)
+		return result
+	}
+
+	// report in milliseconds
+	ms := int(d.Milliseconds())
+	if ms > 100 {
+		// todo: print .3s, etc ?
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%1.2fs", seconds/1000)
+	}
+	if ms > 0 {
+		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dms", ms)
+	}
+
+	// totally not necessary but wth
+	var t time.Duration
+	t = time.Duration(ms) * time.Millisecond
+	nanos := d - t
+	result += fmt.Sprintf("%dnanos", nanos)
+	return result
+}
+
+
+func (d *Droplet) SprintHeader() string {
+	header := fmt.Sprintf("%-3.3s %-9.9s %-20.20s", d.Current.State, d.Current.Hypervisor, d.Hostname)
+
+	if d.Current == nil {
+		d.Current = new(Current)
+	}
+
+	switch d.Current.State {
+	case DropletState_ON:
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OnSince.AsTime()) // time since 'ON'
+		header += " (on :" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	case DropletState_OFF:
+		// everything is as it should be with this vm
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OffSince.AsTime()) // time since 'OFF'
+		header += " (off:" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	default:
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OffSince.AsTime()) // use 'OFF' here?
+		header += " (???:" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	}
+	return header
+}
+
+func (d *Droplet) SprintDumpHeader() string {
+	var macs []string
+	for _, n := range d.Networks {
+		macs = append(macs, n.Mac)
+	}
+
+	// this line in golang could replace 80 lines of COBOL
+	header := fmt.Sprintf("%-4.4s%20s %-8s", d.Current.State, strings.Join(macs, " "), d.Current.Hypervisor)
+
+	if d.Current == nil {
+		d.Current = new(Current)
+	}
+
+	switch d.Current.State {
+	case DropletState_ON:
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OnSince.AsTime()) // time since 'ON'
+		header += " (on :" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	case DropletState_OFF:
+		// everything is as it should be with this vm
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OffSince.AsTime()) // time since 'OFF'
+		header += " (off:" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	default:
+		dur := time.Since(d.Current.OffSince.AsTime()) // use 'OFF' here?
+		header += " (???:" + FormatDuration(dur) + ")"
+	}
+	return header
+}
diff --git a/time.go b/time.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 28f4098..0000000
--- a/time.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-package virtbuf
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"time"
-)
-
-func FormatDuration(d time.Duration) string {
-	result := ""
-
-	// check if it's more than a year
-	years := int(d.Hours()) / (24 * 365)
-	if years > 0 {
-		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dy ", years)
-		return result
-	}
-
-	// check if it's more than a day
-	days := int(d.Hours()) / 24
-	if days > 0 {
-		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dd ", days)
-		return result
-	}
-
-	// check if it's more than an hour
-	hours := int(d.Hours()) % 24
-	if hours > 0 {
-		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dh ", hours)
-		return result
-	}
-
-	// check if it's more than a minute
-	minutes := int(d.Minutes()) % 60
-	if minutes > 0 {
-		result += fmt.Sprintf("%dm ", minutes)
-		return result
-	}
-
-	// check if it's more than a second
-	seconds := int(d.Seconds()) % 60
-	if seconds > 0 {
-		result += fmt.Sprintf("%ds", seconds)
-		return result
-	}
-
-	// report in milliseconds
-	ms := int(d.Milliseconds())
-	if ms > 100 {
-		// todo: print .3s, etc ?
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%1.2fs", seconds/1000)
-	}
-	result += fmt.Sprintf("%dms", ms)
-	return result
-}
-
-func GetDurationStamp(t time.Time) string {
-	// Get the current time
-	currentTime := time.Now()
-
-	// Calculate the duration between t current time
-	duration := currentTime.Sub(t)
-
-	return FormatDuration(duration)
-}