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I've installed Windows 7 on my laptop, moved all my files from my desktop computer to the laptop, and finished installing/reinstalling most of my favorite programs. I'm now using the laptop as my main computer.
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I am making some vegan chocolate peanut butter cups. I recently discovered how to make chocolate-covered goodies with melted chocolate. Previously I had a problem in that my chocolate didn't solidify at room temperature, and I thought there must be some difficult trick to it. But it turns out that my problem was only that I was adding margarine or soymilk into the melted chocolate (based on a recipe for a chocolate cake topping that I was using). I now discovered that when you don't add anything into the melted chocolate, then it solidifies. (d'oh!) So anyway, I've had this obsession with covering things in melted chocolate these last few weeks, and the peanut butter cups are my latest idea to try out.
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I'm also somewhat obsessed/bothered by my electric power usage. I even debate each time whether or not to turn on the christmas lights in the window and on the christmas tree (which I put up the evening before christmas eve). I've been tracking my electric meter readings, and I've already used 530 kWh in the last 19 days. This month is likely to be my highest usage since I've moved here. We're keeping an electric oil-filled radiator turned on in the garage at night for Zorro, on those nights where it gets below 40 degrees outside. I'm on vacation for these 2 weeks, so I've had another radiator on almost constantly inside the house, both day and night. I don't keep it turned on high, but it apparently still uses up a lot of electricity. Now we've gotten another radiator which Qiao is using in his room, so that's even more usage... Sigh. And it's not even warm in here. It's still cold. I need to do my exercises... even though I'm on vacation, I still don't have enough time.
Hmmm. Maybe it would be cheaper to keep the whole-house heater (gas-powered) set to a higher temperature instead of using the radiators. I wonder.
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I am making some vegan chocolate peanut butter cups. I recently discovered how to make chocolate-covered goodies with melted chocolate. Previously I had a problem in that my chocolate didn't solidify at room temperature, and I thought there must be some difficult trick to it. But it turns out that my problem was only that I was adding margarine or soymilk into the melted chocolate (based on a recipe for a chocolate cake topping that I was using). I now discovered that when you don't add anything into the melted chocolate, then it solidifies. (d'oh!) So anyway, I've had this obsession with covering things in melted chocolate these last few weeks, and the peanut butter cups are my latest idea to try out.
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I'm also somewhat obsessed/bothered by my electric power usage. I even debate each time whether or not to turn on the christmas lights in the window and on the christmas tree (which I put up the evening before christmas eve). I've been tracking my electric meter readings, and I've already used 530 kWh in the last 19 days. This month is likely to be my highest usage since I've moved here. We're keeping an electric oil-filled radiator turned on in the garage at night for Zorro, on those nights where it gets below 40 degrees outside. I'm on vacation for these 2 weeks, so I've had another radiator on almost constantly inside the house, both day and night. I don't keep it turned on high, but it apparently still uses up a lot of electricity. Now we've gotten another radiator which Qiao is using in his room, so that's even more usage... Sigh. And it's not even warm in here. It's still cold. I need to do my exercises... even though I'm on vacation, I still don't have enough time.
Hmmm. Maybe it would be cheaper to keep the whole-house heater (gas-powered) set to a higher temperature instead of using the radiators. I wonder.