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Yes, I am making more today. Cookies, cookies everywhere!

Today it's cocoa-coffee crinkles, which I will be bringing in to work tomorrow, or rather, sending them in with my mom tomorrow morning so the truck day crew will have something lovely to go with their coffee. What can I say, it keeps me entertained. Of course now I need to find another recipe that uses instant coffee, cause I'm sure as hell not drinking it. The mere thought makes me shudder in revulsion.

Yes, I'm making cookies again. They make great gifts, you know. And I can make lots so everyone can enjoy.

Yesterday I made maple cookies with maple icing, recipe from a magazine. I used over a cup of maple syrup. That's a lot. They are delicious. The recipe also makes about a billion. I make very small cookies though, so a. there are lots of them and b. they are easy to grab one or two on the way by. These are important considerations when bringing things into a busy work environment. ...

Now that I've played through the story, I have a much better idea of what Ubisoft was trying to do, obviously. Note that there may be some minor spoilers scattered about so beware. I'll try not to spoil anything major anyway.

First, I think this story is a lot about contrast. In ACI, you saw Altair basically creating the Order. In ACII, it was at the height of its power under Ezio, who is basically THE master assassin. He perfected many of the techniques Altair created and built the ...

Because the crazy is strong with this one. I'd just like to point out that many of us more liberal-minded folk who voted Democrat or third party in this election also tend to be nerds and geeks. What does that mean for you, crazy right-wing Republicans? You may have the guns and moonshine, but we're all prepared for the zombie apocalypse. And raptors.

Yay! We can celebrate the end of robocalls and stacks of junk mail. For a few years anyway.

Oh, and I guess we can go vote too. Just because.

On a more serious note, everyone should be voting today. Unless your state is super awesome and lets you vote early, in which case you probably should have voted already. I live in a swing state (not that kind of swing, alas), which makes it even more critical. But no one should be shirking their civic duty. If you do, you forfeit ...