Well, more like 20-25% baked. Christmas is coming, which means that the blog gets short shrift, and a Collin's attention is shifted to the Annual Christmas Cookie Bake-Off, where I spend every spare moment preparing a bevy of cookies for Eve, Day, Night, and Snack desserts. Completed so far? Golden cookies, Clove cookies, & Peppermint Fudge. Next up? Chocolate Crinkles, M&M cookies, and Peanut Butter Kisses, all by the end of the day, I hope.
Travel was a little asymmetric this time around. I will grumble until the end of my days about how nothing good is ever preceded by the phrase "lake effect," and that includes the weather in the Buffalo-Erie corridor, which stopped me dead in my increasingly-deepening tracks on Thursday night. And unfortunately, that left me with 12-13 hours of the drive to complete on Friday. Which I did. Johndan talks about Yahoo's claim that they're going to be offering real-time traffic conditions on their maps, which is a mixed bag, as he notes. For my purposes, I'd much rather have a lagged map, one that actually attempts to present conditions in travel time. So for example, when I look at a map, it gives me local conditions where I'm at, and projected conditions for the time I actually hit that area. Sounds a little complicated, but actually, it's probably easier than I think. Not to mention less likely than I would wish.
Back to baking. That is all.
Any chance you'll post recipes? Especially for clove cookies and peanut butter kisses?
If you're feeling adventurous (sp??), you can try my version of my grandmother's Pfeffer Nuts-- see this entry from my unofficial blog. If I were to do this again, I'd half the recipe, though.
totally did not know you had this talent!
Thanks, Steve!
It's weird, but I'm oddly hesitant to post my recipes--it's not as though they're "mine," really, since I got all of them from various sources. I guess maybe some of the adjustments are mine, but still. I feel like I'm being asked to show how my magic tricks work...even as I realize how dorky that sounds...
cgb