I woke up at 3:30 a.m., my plane departed Philadelphia at 6 a.m., I arrived in Houston at 9 a.m., and by 10:15 a.m. I was at work.

The exciting news is that it sounds like a week delay is the perfect amount of time for me to actually get desk space in the FDO office. Yeah! Now I can focus on the ironic problem I have to solve this week. I have to force this code I've been working on to output "good" results, so that I can use them to prove the code is "bad" and should never be used again. So basically, I am exerting an enormous amount of effort to make something work that will hopefully never have to work again after I'm done with it. Ah, the irony. But, it actually makes sense from an engineering perspective.

On the topic of irony... what's the most ironic thing that can happen to a hybrid car? Well, Nick S discovered it the other day. He pulled away from the airport and ran out of gas. Giggle. Great gas mileage, 1,000 miles to a tank, and he ran out of gas, and there wasn't enough juice left in the battery to roll to a gas station. (Don't worry, Toyota roadside assistance came and fixed him right up). The thought of it is still making me laugh.