I am slowly conquering Matlab today. I had a bit of a stay of excution, giving me a couple more hours to get things working. As it turns out, it was just what I needed.

I woke up way too early this morning. What's the deal with coming in before 8 THREE days in a row? This is SO not me.

In case I didn't mention it before, Nick got a new bird. This time, an expensive, baby, hand trained one, rather than the other parakeet that doesn't seem to care about people as much as she cares about chirping along to Frank Sinatra. She's cute, cuddly, social, and will eventually learn to talk. Unfortunately Nick and Tiffany are teaching her boring things to say like "Hello" and "Pretty bird." So boring! Anyway, the new bird (named Zoe) apparently escaped its cage yesterday when no one was home. She wandered all over the house (given the trail of bird droppings). Interestingly, the dogs didn't eat her (a real danger, considering its wings were clipped at the pet store).