You may remember me writing earlier about my neglected front garden and the days that I spent weeding it about a month ago. It hadn't been touched in over a year, so there was a lot of work to do. Today, I noticed to my chagrin that there are weeds growing back! I'll have to post a photo tomorrow because I forgot to take one before the sun went down (the photo posted here is not from my garden). I'm not a complete idiot - I knew the weeds would eventually come back, but I didn't expect to see them again so soon. Is this some perpetual thing I'm going to have to do, weeding the area? Or is there something I can spray down (that won't also kill my dog) to prevent them from growing for awhile? (I was going to make an Agent Orange joke here until I Googled images and was seriously grossed out and horrified. My bad).

I have a hockey game tonight at 11:15. That's right - 45 minutes before midnight. We're not on a very good streak right now. We started off the season kicking everyone's asses, and our last three games have been tie-lose-tie, the loss being to one of the worst teams in the division. We really need a win tonight. Hopefully, we'll show up with our A game.

The song of the day is "White Wedding" by Billy Idol off his 1982 self-titled album. Though he'd released an EP in 1981 that spawned two other hits, this was the first full length release by Idol. I remember when he was THE thing, and we all thought he was so hard rock with the leather, spikes and black. Now I listen to his music and it sounds like pop, mellow and harmless. The times sure have changed. Back in the early 90s, shortly after I moved to L.A., I was employed by a home alarm company and Idol was one of our clients. One of our service techs had to go out to his house one day to repair his alarm. Idol was sitting in the TV room smoking a joint when he was startled by the repairman, who had been let in by someone else. Without missing a beat, Idol swallowed the lit joint which resulted in some obvious problems, and the paramedics had to be called. Good to know some things never change.