sorry y'all, about the little burst of inactivity. my area was hit hard by Hurricane Beryl, so we've been without power since Monday morning, around 6am. I was actually at summer camp while Hurricane Beryl was in Texas, and we had to evacuate and cancel the rest of the camp. and actually, as I'm writing this, I'm on my laptop, sitting in my room, while the power is out, on Thursday. I'll probably not post this until the power is back, because I'm not sure when we'll get power back, and because we may lose internet soon -- that's actually why I'm writing it right now, along with the fact that I'm really bored. but I should hopefully be back by next week, if not Sunday or sometime Monday. Maybe even Saturday. But there is no estimated time for our power to be back, and there's about 1.5 million homes still without power -- and Hurricane Beryl LEFT Texas TUESDAY, at least to my knowledge. edit: y'all are seeing this posted because I'm way too impatient to get this out. I wrote the above paragraphs around maybe 8am, and it's 2:06pm rn.