Welcome Back Essive!

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Yes, Essive is back after many years. There's much to do yet to get this blog back into shape. Stay tuned (you can learn more here). But, in the meantime, the layout will be slowly adjusting to my needs. So, hopefully, this will start to bake out much better.

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