How many servings at a time do you make in the slowcooker? The stovetop method I use has relatively little interaction (stir twice over 30m, after toasting oats), and I get five servings. It's why I've had steel cut almost every morning since I changed.

But I have an oatmeal problem. On top of that, I also just finished the oatmeal cookies I'd made.

They weren't very good--it's no big deal. I really need to make another, chunkier, batch.

Printing of unusual forms, explaining that no, we cannot do your taxes for you, or even help you use Turbotax; nor can we answer questions like, "Why did my employer send me 3 W-2 forms?"

For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, our taxes are not done.

Oh dear. You don't need my permission to Hulk Smash, but you have it anyway.

My 11am apparently is cancelled because we're having it on Thursday instead. Normally I'd be happy to get the time back, but that means I have to handle my inbox now.

Dana, I cannot imagine the stress you're under right now.

We'll ultimately be fine, it just means that today is going to continue to suck. At least I'm no longer as miserably sick as I was this weekend.

I think working in the library would be worse, though.

Nah, other people's problems, while sometimes tedious, are never as stressful as your own problems. (Anybody who gets seriously affected by other people's problems doesn't last long in public service.)

In this week's househunting melodrama news, we have decided to go for added excitement by considering a foreclosed property in need of serious renovation work! Which means stuff like getting a contractor to come see it with us, and various unusual loan types. [link]

The super-fugly stonework is even beginning to grow on me.

Last night I dreamed that I gave my umbrella to the Mark Gatiss version of Mycroft for safe keeping. In return he asked me to transport a lamp to a store at the mall. Most of the dream was of me wandering about the mall, carrying a lamp, in search of the store, occasionally getting rained on. The rain part was understandable--we had some big thunderstorms roll through last night.

we have decided to go for added excitement by considering a foreclosed property in need of serious renovation work!

That's a great street, though. It's right across Ludlow from the street I lived on when I lived in the apartment complex (which I'm pretty sure you visited). I used to take walks there all the time because I liked the houses.

Flea, that house makes me think of Property Brothers. :)