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This latest batch of oatmeal cookies may have been a struggle to get right, but they're insanely delicious, partly because I goofed and put in an extra quarter-cup of sugar, or more accurately an extra 55 grams, since I've been weighing things whenever possible. I don't know how people manage, measuring flour by volume.
I was a busy beaver Tuesday night, turning out a batch of bean soup, and then a batch of cinnamon-and-raisin oatmeal. This time I tried mixing the cinnamon into the oatmeal beforehand, and it mixed in a lot better than it had when I added it along with the raisins after initially boiling the oatmeal, with none of the endless stirring and smearing of rogue cinnamon nodules against the side of the pan.
Encapsulating all the aggravation associated with comments in a class appears to be a very good idea. Much less annoying to have the class worry about where everything goes and what it should be called instead of declaring globally thus-shall-it-be and exploiting that knowledge everywhere in the system.
So wait, are those cherry trees in bloom, outside my window? In February? In a lot of ways, I'm still not used to California.
