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.

I just had a several-hours-long meeting with a former Olympian, and am now wiped out! The weekend can not start soon enough, as far as I'm concerned.

This is the first year I've suffered from solar outages, if that is indeed what this is. Though, since my signal's been crap for a week, I don't think it's all of it.

mood in my office has been horrible all week. I am afraid things are going to get bad in the next month.

I just had a several-hours-long meeting with a former Olympian, and am now wiped out!

I'm sure your "meeting" was exhausting.

mood in my office has been horrible all week. I am afraid things are going to get bad in the next month.

I hope things aren't as bad as you fear. I wish you good luck.

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

::fears rickroll. mouses over link...::

Ahhh, brisket with gravy sandwich. Mmmmmm.

Teppy's mention of garlic bread with the butter dripping made me think of the poorboy sandwiches at Merishka's in Joliet, with "garlic butterine" on the bread.

Now I'm drooling...