Burrell, I have a great easy oreo cheesecake recipe I got from Sunset Magazine many years ago. If you want it, I can type it up. But... it does require several hours of chilling, so maybe it won't do for today.

I'm making a lemon pudding pie, although maybe I should do a lemon meringue: the meringue would hide the horrible way my pie crust shrank in the oven. I was in a rush and didn't rest the pastry dough before I rolled it out. Bollocks.

Conversation between me and Tom:

me: the board has also advanced Baltimore as an option...

Tom: (immediately) No.

me: why, the weather?

Tom: I don't know. (pause) maybe after it's been a little longer since I read the book Homicide ? I know, it's not fair.

Thanks Consuela, but he really wants just a plain cheesecake. I think I might try the Settlement Cookbook, it has what looks like a good basic recipe. Making it today because his birthday is tomorrow.

Chicago is diverse, with public transit and good beer. We do have real winters though.

Yeah, Chicago is off the list for that reason. Sadly. (I love Chicago)

Many of our grocery stores have British Foods sections!

And it's $$$, but the pay tends to reflect that, especially for a software engineer.

AND WE DO NOT HAVE WINTERS.

Tom thinks the talent pool in Seattle will make it impossible to get a job. I think he has little faith in himself. (He's really good at what he does.) I think he's nervous about being a small fish in a big pond, which is sort of the opposite of New Orleans.

Wait, stop trying to woo them away from Cincinnati!

WE HAVE GRAETERS.

I looked at that little bungalow in Northside again today and I reallllly want to live there!