I've got banana bread with spiced rum in the oven right now. Warmth and nice smells!

Connie, that was evocative.

I have individual chocolate lava cakes in the oven. They have gooey molten raspberry/chocolate centers. Hopefully they'll turn out properly. (Hell, even if they don't, Tim will just put ice cream on top and eat it anyway. In his eyes, the only bad baked good is no baked good.)

I feel it suffers from the same increased-likelihood-of-inspiring-a-procedural-episode problem as Baltimore.

This made me laugh.

Woes about my niche skill set aside, I am really well networked up here. And, because of recruiting bonuses, my connections have a vested interest in pimping candidates. He should, if he hasn't already, connect with me on LinkedIn. Sure, I can't help myself get a job that doesn't suck, but I can assist people with desirable skills in their hunt.

I will pass that along to him.

That sounds amazing, Steph.

Yeah, Steph's dinner sounds delicious!

I can't really recommend my town to anybody, which is sad not only because I might as well have Property of State of Arizona tattooed on my ass...I'd love to have you, but expect you'd not be pleased

The chocolate lava cakes turned out slightly too gooey in my opinion, but Tim was too busy eating his to care. They're super easy -- you mix up the batter, pour half into a ramekin, put a blop of raspberry preserves (or smooshed fresh raspberries if you have them) and a few chocolate chips on top, and then pour the rest of the batter over that and pop it in the oven. The recipe even says you can make it in the microwave like a mug cake, but I've never tried that.

Glad to hear it, Burrell! I have undercooked and overcooked it at various times and it was never ruined afaict, ftr. Yay for Franny help!

Nom, molten lava cakes with raspberry centers! And I am with Tim in this as in so many matters.

I am starting to feel like I might actually be sick and not just lazy, low-grade feverish. I'll take some Aleve before I go to bed and hope it's gone by tomorrow. On the plus side, getting through a fair bit of TV in between reading the murder mystery, so not a completely wasted day.

So I found some jobs to apply to, and now I feel like I shouldn't! If I left my job in the current circumstance, it would be kind of a disaster for the people left behind. And none of the jobs seems 100% perfect, so I think I won't bother. Oh well.

It's out of the oven and looks good. Looks a bit, er, homemade, but that's okay too