Yay, Lowell!

If he doesn't break it first!

(edited to put in the quote so it didn't look like I thought the observatory was rambunctious.)

He's huge and rambunctious! Don't, under any circumstances, send him to circus school, or he'll be using that thing as a vaulting horse in a wink.

weekend

Oh, jeez. First up the regular round of private lessons and errands. But on top of that there's the SO's symphony concert Saturday. And on top of that he's scheduled himself to throw a dinner at someone else's house. For money, but still. Lot of work in a short amount of time. And he's already wiped out now. But I have no sympathy, because he scheduled it all himself.

The DH is making Cincinnati Chili for dinner tonight. We are serving the chili/pasta/toppings plus a big salad. What else goes with it? Cornbread? Garlic bread? No bread?

I've never served Cincinnati chili with bread, but at Skyline you can get it with oyster crackers.

For David, to make up for all the cat pictures we have posted: [link]

That reminds me that I haven't done my blog click for the day.

The DH is making Cincinnati Chili for dinner tonight. We are serving the chili/pasta/toppings plus a big salad. What else goes with it? Cornbread? Garlic bread? No bread?

I have always had it with oyster crackers. Skyline and Gold Star both serve it that way.

The DH is making Cincinnati Chili for dinner tonight. We are serving the chili/pasta/toppings plus a big salad. What else goes with it? Cornbread? Garlic bread? No bread?

I have always had it with oyster crackers. Skyline and Gold Star both serve it that way.

Skyline used to also have garlic bread on the menu, and I loved it because it dripped butter. It's no longer on the menu.

Oyster crackers are de rigeur for the authentic experience: [link] (don't feel compelled to use this much cheese, BTW).

But honestly, garlic bread is pretty good with it.

My cable is jacked, every time I call Time Warner they have a pre-recorded excuse. Apparently it's sunspots. Or flares. Something solar anyway.

Apparently it's sunspots. Or flares. Something solar anyway.

They should just say, "The sun's going nova. Sure, that won't happen for another 7 billion years, but our equipment is very sensitive."

[link]

Solar transit (or a solar outage, sometimes solar fade, sun outage, or sun fade) also occurs to communications satellites, which pass in front of the Sun for several minutes each day for several days straight for a period in the months around the equinoxes, the exact dates depending on where the satellite is in the sky relative to its earth station. Because the Sun also produces a great deal of microwave radiation in addition to sunlight, it overwhelms the microwave radio signals coming from the satellite's transponders. This enormous electromagnetic interference causes interruptions in fixed satellite services that use satellite dishes, including TV networks and radio networks, as well as VSAT and DBS.