No.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any pictures of the giant isopods. Apparently the aquarium people spent two years acclimating them to surface pressure.

2024 was a difficult year. We lost Nora to kidney disease. My daughter was diagnosed with autism. I realized that my son's school is failing him in ways I'm not sure how to address (the response I've gotten most often from IRL people is "Take them to court"). The worldwide explosion of antisemitism post 7/10/23 is not exactly surprising, but it is definitely disturbing, especially when it manifests in unexpected places (hobby groups on FB, for example, as opposed to political posts on X, where all sorts of nastiness is just kind of background noise).

My relatives in LA, who I haven't seen in 15+ years, are so far ok, but the whole situation, and the extent to which government incompetence seems to have contributed to it, is horrifying. We have occasionally talked about trying to move back to north-central Cali to be closer to family, but that is a fire zone too.