my flat_tree and log seem a mess to me atm, and likely made by a psychologically programmer trigger, which i dissociate from to separate the subtle and severe terror from the programming, if i want to stay. it then becomes very confusing that the mess is made of multiple factoring changes to the content, to my smaller dissociated conciousness, and the confusion around this tends to quickly trigger the mess actions again. with extended practice dissociating, i can toughen against that to a degree, and keep staying, but my memory shrinks very small. it might be helpful to me to simplify this mess by separating the factoring changes out. one of the changes i made was very simple. i migrated the storage norms from flat_tree/__init__.py back into flat_tree/append_tree.py . this change seems good to me. maybe i can preserve both the mess and the clean state, separate out that change in a third worktree, test it with log.py, and push it to the repository.