happy friday!

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quick update on the PG&E folderol: we've mostly stayed on, but my classes were much smaller over the last few days, because so many people couldn't make it to campus. Also, this is hearsay, but if it's true that Piedmont was kept off of yesterday's map of planned outages but the rest of Oakland was left on, then I smell a rat. Piedmont is absolutely in fire country - think of the hills fire - so you would think it would be on the shutoff list, but it is also a very wealthy community. >:/?

anyway, good news instead! With my day off, I have made:

1. peanut-butter cookies!
2. and then M had a steamed squash so she suggested pie-ing it, so I did that from scratch
   1. including the crust
3. but we had accidentally gotten condensed milk instead of evaporated, so after some substitution guesswork, I figured we need to finish it somehow now that it's open, so I closed out the evening by steaming up some mantou!

Four items - not a bad day's baking :)

Also, I've been craving white sugar cake, but apparently bakeries don't carry it as much these days. But I realise, hey, I've done mantou a few times now, so what's stopping me from making some myself?? Maybe that'll happen next weekend, then!