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Dinner last night was a catastrophe.

The gnocchi (per this recipe) should have been fine. Though, in retrospect, I don't think I should have used the all purpose flour. I probably should have used semolina. It was a soupy mess. I ended up pouring in about 6 cups of flour with the potatoes. It was still a sticky, soupy mess.

Had to have been the flour.

So, we tried making regular egg and flour dough.

Another abortion, but, I finally got enough flour in it to dry it enough to use it in the pasta mill. The ravioli maker, on the other hand, just minced it.

Again, should have used semolina.

I finally rolled out thin sheets on the pasta mill and took a can of tomato sauce to the sheets to cut out round ravioli shapes, filled them with a spoonful of the kielbasa and onion mixture, egg washed them, then stuck the top on.

Well, the sauce came out nice, anyway. :p

As for the computer, I'm seeing something very weird.

As I explained yesterday, three computers. I tested connectivity between each of them. I was maxing at about 14Mb throughput, which is horrible for a 100 Mb line. Last night I took home a crossover cable we had in the office and I tried it between the XP box and the Linux server.

5 Mb throughput!!!

Whaaa?

I checked the configuration on the Linux box, and it was autosensing to Half Duplex. I changed it to Full Duplex, but the performance was the same.

I'm thinking the crossover cable has some issues too, now. Tonight I'll make a new one and try that out.

This stuff is really pissing me off.

Tonight S and I are doing surf and turf. Crab legs and filet mignon.

Mmmmm.

I was just trying to remember a song line to make the title of this blog (in case you haven't figured it out yet, for the most part my blog titles are the lines from songs) and I dod a Google to jar something loose and I found this site. Pretty funny names.