a productive Sunday

I don't think I can stare at the computer screen anymore.  Today was spent posting some new photos, so now I'm more or less up-to-date.  In my Yahoo albums, you can find the following new photos (in no particular order):

• miscellaneous shots taken in Helsinki
• my trip to Kuopio
• our cruise to Stockholm
• the Kiitos party
• meeting Gordon West and his wife, Katri Hagan
• our picnic on Suomenlinna with the '99 Finns
• my workplace, the STUK library
• our day in Tallin, Estonia
• 2 group photos

In between uploading photos, I did some baking.  If you're looking for a pretty good brownie recipe - one that resembles the chewy two-bit brownies found in grocery stores back home - check this one out.  They turned out pretty well considering the fact that I had some measuring issues.  The measuring cup we have is only in decilitres so thank goodness for online metric-to-imperial conversion websites.  If you do use this recipe, some helpful suggestions that I found in the reviews of the recipe include: use 3/4 cups of cocoa, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, a 1/4 cup of butter and a 1/4 cup of oil instead of the indicated amounts.  I also added some chopped Toblerone, dark chocolate and some really good chocolate mint toffees from Brunberg, the awesome candy store in Porvoo.