I have grappled with this gorgon of 1s and 0s for countless hours. I have endured documents with the typing rate of powerpoint slideshows. There have been browsers that crashed after copy-pastes and if I counted how many times both internet and machine had to be turned off and then on again, the IC would not have arrived for another day at least.

It was a hard-fought battle. An undertaking not to be taken lightly. My eyes have seen more than their fair share of tears, my hands have been washed in the blood of all guilty parties, and there were more than a few run-ins with violent, lascivious clowns that I would like to put out of my memory... But it is done now.

My decades-old Toshiba office laptop shows all the signs of a lucid period between visceral fever dreams. Activity should be happening more regularly now.