I got it!!! I was trying ssh gemini@gemini.local and finally got it at the beginning of boot.
Thanks again... Fixing now!!!
fwiw, if you need to ssh in again (and in my experience, even if you don't need to, you'll want to, because for a lot of things it's simply easier to do it from a bigger machine) you can get in via
ssh gemini@10.15.19.82
good luck in getting it all working. though it's early days yet, you can get linux working very nicely and usefully on the gemini, though there are still some places that need lots of work (for instance, if anyone has phone/cellular data working well on the gadget, i haven't heard about it).