After a long hiatus from screaming into the ether, I warm up my vocal chords again to shout into the void. Perhaps the void will shout back. Perhaps two years from now when I cannot figure out a basic problem, I will concoct some Google searches that will lead me back here to learn that former-me solved this problem after way-too-much effort.

But now I find myself confronted with messy problems, and writing about them helps to give them some form and structure, and that’s enough, for now.