So sorry, hope whatever you do works out for the best. I can testify that it's better to end it while you can rather than go through with a mistake. My problem is teenage drama with my daughter. I need to get my own life!

Fortunately I live in northern Indiana.

Snow flurries.

my guilty pleasure - Downton Abbey

Teenage daughter in a bad mood...I need to get my own life!

I just wish the IRS would play Zeppelin while I am on hold.

I was at a client's office in a room full of various workers in cubicles. Someone was on speaker phone and got put on hold and the hold music was Black Dog. Everyone in the room murmured in appreciation, and an IT guy said he hoped the company had permission to use Zep music.

Love the psychedelic sound of this song:

Pete Townshend at the inaugural John Peel lecture- “Did he [Peel] really give Led Zeppelin their big break? I can’t see it myself.” “I don’t give a s**t about making money,. I think rock music is junk. I am a genius! The Who were OK but without me they would have all ended up working in the flower market, or worse – in Led Zeppelin.” What a piece of work Pete is! Oh and he also doesn't like ITunes.

Someone reached out to me today, apologized for their past actions and vowed to do better in the future. That took a lot of courage and character. It really meant a lot to me and I hope I can do something similar if the occasion arises.

Say, STZ, what's the time where you are? It's 8:30 in the evening here. I only ask because I could never come up with a quip like that on a Friday night.

I'm sorry. I took care of my mother for a long time and I'm pretty sure she rarely realized who I was.

I need a spouse like you lol. I like Stockholm Syndrome because the guitar takes precedence, unlike a lot of their other songs. Still they are a good band if a bit one dimensional.

Surprise visit from my son, staying up late drinking and listening to "Supermassive Black Hole" over and over I get these obsessions with random songs for some reason - must be the vodka.

Definitely the impact is magnified if you hear Zeppelin in a concentrated burst. I liked Zeppelin in the 70s but wasn't a huge fan. I owned LZ2 but it wasn't until I watched the DVD one Christmas Eve that it all fell in place. I had never realized how dynamic they were live. That was a night that changed my life.

I stayed there a few years ago. It's very nice and the restaurant was excellent. They have a room with Beatles memorabilia - apparently the Beatles stayed there briefly but they ended up running out as they were being followed all over town by screaming girls. I wanted to ask about a Zeppelin room but didn't have the nerve.

That's terrible! Maybe the radio station needs some "adjustment" .

I wish I had seen this when it was posted. Beatbo is a forum member whose opinion I respect. I just can't get into this song, to me it drags, it doesn't rock, guitar is almost nonexistent except for the nondescript solo. Now how many people hate Black Dog? Which to me is the guitar army in full force, a bulldozer of a song which just mows down everything in its path, another song which you may think you are sick of, but if you take time to listen to it carefully, you will realize is a masterpiece.

And I thought my home town Gary, Indiana was bad...

Well you're right and this is the last time he stays with me. My son got married on Saturday (see "What made you happy today") and of course we had to include his father. Thanks for your concern! "The best years of my life gone by, here I am alone and blue" I have been .putting up with this situation but it's not on me anymore to host this guy. My poor daughter-in-law will have to put up with him now!

Thanks, today has been a better day. I have to put up with this clown for a few more weeks, then he leaves. I'm counting the days!

Thanks, turns out the bride's father thought we were a bit too rowdy!

My a--hole ex shows up, starts ranting and raving at our daughter whom he hasn't seen in three years, tells her to "Get a new father if she doesn't like it", makes her cry and go to a friend's house so now I am stuck alone with this jerk that I am being polite to for the kids' sake. And he doesn't pay child support, which of course I never bring up to the kids, although they probably have figured it out. Sorry for the rant, but I just had to get that out ...