This is one of their favorite sample recipes to use in a situation like this.!

3 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups butter, softened
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
4 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts Add all ingredients to list
Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Mix flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Set aside. Beat butter and sugars in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Drop by rounded tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

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Seriously. I am not an exciting person,  and I haven't got anything to say. But...hi, I guess.

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Carpet

Snake

Snape

Cinnamon

Red onion

Freon

Bluray

Ice

A clove

Hair

Caramel

A bag

Broccoli

Pamphlets

Oil

Tobacco

Racism

Sand

Another hot dog (hard to eat)

Hair dye

Rubber bands

Human remains

Kelp

Prawns

Anthrax

Cards

Dog food

Sex

Toast

Sextoast (don't ask)

Copper wire

Roofies

A surge protector

My teddy bear

Your teddy bear

Boot

Russian dressing

Wax

A car

Ash

Ash (from evil dead)

Ennui

A radiator

David Lynch movies

Ranch dressing

Marshmallow fluff

Toenail clippings

A shingle

Women in uniform

seriously, russian dressing?

Tom servo

Tape

Moss

Reefer

Warm yogurt

A smart phone

D'angelo Tortuga

Easter eggs

Butter

A shelf

Taffy

Cotton

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Additionally, I'm kind of a hermit. So I have ample time to get high and talk about movies with my roommate, or sprawl on the floor and listen to sad songs. SO EXCITING.

Oh also I play with my pups in the yard a lot. So I mean...that's my life. That's my update.

DON'T YOU FUCKING LOVE IT?!

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Look, beloved Tortugaholics, if you're reading this I'm genuinely glad that you are! It's just that,  I'm kind of convinced you aren't? I mean this is basically a message sent into the void,  methinks. If folks are following my journals... say, you wouldn't mind commenting to let me know, wouldja? It'd mean the difference between toiling under Ronn's hurled insults to just get the journals done for some relief, and actually having a kind of dialogue with y'all- WHICH I WOULD LOVE. Dont get me wrong, if people/fans/friends are looking for my updates, I'm enthusiastic to keep 'em comin'. So, sound off! Who's out there?

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Is every one ready? Are all of you ready? Who's ready? FINE, Darryl, we'll wait for you. Hurry. Does any one else have to pee before we begin? No? Good.

This month's ramblings

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Here's a thing, you guys.

I think, for member-only-type reasons, I gotsta put it way down here, after the break. Dang previews!

I dunno, it's my November journal man, but mostly I talk about December. So it's like, a surprise ending? Or something.

Journal for yoooouuuuu

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There it is in handy youtube form! Enjoy, kiddos.

Today I post a video in which I ramble, cuss, say one thing I REALLY shouldn't, and generally make a bother of myself.

Enjoy and whatever!

hooray for fall, I guess.

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Carolynn in FL asks:

"How many full axis rotations does Mars complete in 1 sidereal (*not* Martian) year? I expect you to show your work for the answer. No tweeting Neil deGrasse Tyson for help either."

1 Martian sidreal year is equal to about 668.5991 Martian days, or about 686.98 EARTH days. Earth's Sidereal year is about 365.256363004 earth days. The martian solar year & sidreal year is calculated to be the same, so 1 martian year is about 322 Earth days longer than the Earth's Sidreal Year. Mars completes nearly 2 times as many rotations in one Sidreal year as the Earth does.

Leah in MN writes, regarding my claiming to be in "HuffleClaw" at Hogwarts:

Do you care to expand on this duality?  On a related note, with which HP character do you most relate, and why?  And on a scale of sickle to drinking the blood of a unicorn, how excited are you for the new film series to be penned by JK?  Oooh!  Here's a question that recently totally blew my mind.  IF the dementors had kissed Harry at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, would that have destroyed the Horcrux inside him?!

I've taken tests all over the interwebs to all four possible answers. Pottermore shocked me with a Slytherin placement. But I have always related to the clever Ravenclaw house, as I have always been something of an armchair scholar (My first goal in life was to be a professor of American Religion). But at the same time, the jovial nature of the good-natured Hufflepuff speaks to me too, as I'd bet the more Epicurean adult wizard set came from that house. Oscar Wilde would have made a poor Gryffindor. If I had to choose between the two houses, allegience-wise, I'd be in a pickle. Hence, shoving them both together.
     I am SO EXCITED for this new movie- JKR HERSELF is penning the screen play, if the helm had been passed to some studio pen, or even well-known non-rowling, I'd be frustrated. Imagine, it could be J.J. Abrams (That being said, I'd trust John Lassiter with the task).
     I think the Dementor's kiss would have destroyed the horcrux in Harry's soul, or at the very least, transported it to the Dementor itself, or wherever the Dementors deposit the souls they take. If the soul is destroyed in then process, then that would have destroyed the horcrux. Either way, it soon enough would stop to matter. Harry would be powerless, and Voldemort would have him killed.

Another question from Florida:

Do you believe in the idea of "world peace"? If so, how do you think it could be obtained?

I think world peace could be possible for a few things to happen- the damages of colonialism undone (and yes, in many cases, this would require reparations of a sort sent over seas from US and Europe) and then no society being larger than about 500 self-governing people, networked in a loose confederation to trade some goods, but mostly information.

Marissa from Michigan asks:

Is there a reason why you don't grow your hair out like a lot of the other Tortugas?

I look best with vaguely David-Tennant hair, is the thing. I was once exempt from a fair's rule of wearing hats at all times because my bangs were so nice. True story.

 

That's all for now, 'twould seem. Later, kiddies!

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