Okay, first dozen cookies are in the oven - and drat the luck - I timed it all wrong. I won't be able to taste them 'til tomorrow. (Fasting blood test in the morning.)

I used syrup. Okay, the dough tasted good. Umm, the recipe I used called cookie dough "batter" but this was definitely dough not batter.

Ha! The BBC World News or whatever it's called is going to do a feature on bored striking writers putting videos on youtube.

Liese, two of the student worker from my office went home - due to fear

Also, seriously, I need to explore my options more thoroughly.

This: go Liese go!!

Thanks for all the house-wishes, everybody. I'm loving it. We settled on paint colors today, and just about settled on the shower floor tile.

I won't be able to taste them 'til tomorrow. (Fasting blood test in the morning.)

Dude, that's just wrong.

Dude, it's like you just handed me the Holy Grail that's been kicking around in your hall closet for a while. Thank you, Liese!

Eta: I see why I haven't come across it before. PC only, apparently. If it's that useful, though, I can make it work.

If the dough tastes good I'm sure the cookies will taste good. How unfair of the universe to arrange itself so that you have to wait to try them!

Huh. There used to be a Mac version. It's 4.06, you might be able to find copies of it floating around on the web, I hear. But you'd have to run Classic. Says the internet. I dunno.

Anyway, yeah, it's great. Sorry I didn't manage to rec it before! It has some limitations and some weirdnesses, like all programs, but I've been very happy with it.

Well, if I had started baking immediately upon arriving home from work. . . but I was too clobbered. I needed to decompress a bit first. Plus, figure out those substitutions.

Welcome, Gadget Girl! All I know of Central Florida is Lake Ocala, where I went on vacation a few (er, or, actually, 8) years ago.

The Boy is in the basement, unblocking the pathways to the 2 heating vents down there, because the heating/cooling dude is coming tomorrow to clean out the vents/heating system. It's supposed to be extremely helpful when living with pets, and given that The Boy has had 2 dogs and and average of 3 cats and hasn't had the vents cleaned in the 5 years he's lived here....you do the math.

I'm expecting that the vent-cleaning dude will find about 500 cats' worth of hair.

I've got a Windows environment, and access to DH's PC, it'll be fine. I've always done my searching looking for Mac software, though, which is why I've never seen it.

Hey Gadget Girl, welcome to the Buffistas.

I'm in North Florida and enjoying the 80s weather here, although I do wish it would get cold for Xmas.