Hey - it's only been a year!

Looking back at my daily Gemini/Gopher log output, it looks like the last time
I actually wrote anything was just over a year ago.  I ended up getting 
distracted by other work so I more or less completely forgot about what I was
doing in Gopherspace, but now that I have more time, here I am.  (I'm kind of
surprised that my Gopher and Gemini servers were still running on the Linode
instance I spun up last year without any maintenance or upkeep.  Such is the way
of Linux systems - high uptime, no unwanted reboots.)

Plenty has gone on.  Looking back on my last logs, it seems like I spent a lot
of time ranting about Diablo - specifically, Diablo Immortal.  It apparently 
still sucks, but I haven't touched it.  I *have* been playing Diablo IV though, 
and while I don't like it as much as Path of Exile, it's perfectly fine.  

Some of the other projects I was working on got completed.  I finished the 
paint-by-number and started working on the last of the 4 in the set (a gnome to 
go along with the dragon, fairy and mermaid), but I haven't finished it yet - 
I'm just not as interested in that one, but I feel obligated to round out the 
set, as it were.  I was planning a patio for the back yard, that got done as 
well.  My wife and I installed it during the middle part of last July after we 
got back from SGDQ in Minneapolis, during the middle of a heat wave where the 
average temperature was often over 100 degrees.  I even resurrected the retro 
game I was working on (Damaniel's Pixel by Number) - what started out as a test 
of Github Copilot to assist with writing a batch image processing utility became
motivation to add missing features, a new collection of images, and even 
sound/music support to the game itself.  All the work I did on the game was done
without the assistance of AI code gen, since I'm not sure how effective Github 
Copilot would be at generating C code based on pre-C99 compilers for MS-DOS and 
a graphics library version so old that the number of people who've used it in 
the last 20 years can almost certainly be counted on one hand, even if you're 
missing a digit or two.  

I also (just) got around to submitting my Gopher site to Floodgap, so it can be 
indexed (for what that's worth).  In light of all of the ongoing controversy 
surrounding Reddit - and centralized user-generated content in general, at least
among the nerdy types - perhaps we'll all return to forums, IRC - and who knows,
maybe Gopher?  I guess I'll talk about it more in my next post (which hopefully
won't be *next* June).