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I woke up this morning with an overwhelming urge to make granola bars. I make a batch last week, using this recipe as a starting point, and ended up with many, many excellent granola bars -- I think it made 24 bars (as opposed to the six in an average box of granola bars from the store). They're less chewy, more dry, but that suits me just fine. And they're not too sweet. If you want to give it a try using the linked recipe, I recommend (1) not baking them, because I suspect they'd get too crispy/crumbly and nobody else seems to bake their granola bars, (2) mixing thoroughly, because you don't want dry spots in your granola when you go to press it in the pan, and (3) fooling around with the ingredients to suit your tastes and what you have on hand. As long as you keep the wet-to-dry ratio about the same, it'd be pretty hard to screw these up.

In other news:

• I got a real job. Yay! I'm two weeks in, and so far it has been a blast.
  
• I got into a car accident on Friday. Pretty minor, nobody hurt, and my car is still driveable even if it isn't as pretty as it used to be. Stupid slippery roads.
• Last year I wrote a parody of Alanis Morisette's "You Oughtta Know" based on contract law. I finally got around to making an mp3 of it, and it is now available here.