Always already brought back.

Oh, hey, it’s the 24th anniversary of this here blogging megillah. Favored gifts include opals, lavenders, and tanzanite, which, apparently, is the blue to purple variety of zoisite. —What went on last year? Let’s see: I tore up empathy, I wrote about what I’ve done with AI, I discovered some poetry from my grandfather, I didn’t so much like a very good book, and I was rather a bit more indulgent than, perhaps, usual. Let’s see what comes next.