One of the girls at work was finally able to identify the mystery pest in my garden as Bird's Nest Fungus. Hooray! It has a name.

Now all I have to do is kill it.

It's not our customers stupidity that bothers me. Everybody has gaps in their knowledge and nobody knows everything. It's their outright arrogance and insistence that they are not completely ignorant.

Does anybody out there know a way to ask "Excuse me. Are you really that stupid?" that won't end with me being fired?

It's been a good weekend. I got to see the Riders play - and win - for the first time since 2007, got a rain barrel set up in my yard to water my plants, and learned that a local diner in town has gotten a liquor license (technically, it's a private club now) - they haven't gotten any alcohol in yet, but I'm predicting that business is going to be quite good once they do, despite a boycott by the local church.

Also, with the heat and humidity my garden has been doing great and I've now got a steady supply of tomatoes. In hindsight, six plants was a little too many for one person.