You say you're a big boy, but I can't agree.

Let's see if this actually works today. Yesterday I tried posting and it deleted my entry instead.

I think I'm starting to get the hang of things. Field work made time go by faster than I expected, and before I knew it, seven hours was up and I was back at my cabin. Saw some baby robins! They are soooo cute! They haven't opened their eyes yet. At one nest, the momma and poppa birds were totally losing it that we were there. They kept swooshing by our heads and going "HEY!....HEY!" Well you know what? Next time you have babies, don't put them so close to the ground! At the next nest, the momma bird just sat there and watched us look at her babies. She hardly even made a peep, and she didn't call poppa bird over.

Last night I cleaned off my shelf because Sonja found mouse poop in the cabinet. So I bleached it and put my stuff back. I think it's old because if it were new my stuff would have been chewed up and it wasn't. I also borrowed an electric screw driver and screws from Zach and hung a curtain between the bed/dining area and the kitchen. We lose a lot of heat to the kitchen.

When I went back to return his screw driver, I told him about how I was thinking of getting some expanding foam for all the nooks, crannies, holes, chinks, huge cracks...anywhere where there was a bad draft or where mice were getting in. He agreed with Chris that the work crew has enough on their plate and probably wouldn't do anything about it. Plus, we're the ones that know where all the holes are because we live here. Then he showed me where he also covered places in expanding foam - he'd had the same idea as me! - and he said he hasn't had a mouse since. So I left, figuring that the next time I was near a hardware store, I'd get some expanding foam. Two minutes later, Zach knocks on the door holding up a can of foam. Haha! Turns out he just had one sitting around and I used the whole thing on our cabin. I just have to get him a new can when I can. I missed a couple places, but I guess that's alright. I covered a couple of those places in excess insulation that someone tried covering one of the cracks with. I got the majority of it that we know of and there was an immediate difference in temperature in here, with the foam and curtain combined. It stays warm much better now that there aren't holes everywhere to let in the wind. Can you believe one of the humungus cracks in the wall was covered up by newspapers from 1997? That's in the garbage now. It was kind of entertaining though.

A circuit went nuts in the night or this morning. Maybe lightning, maybe something random and weird, but I thought at first that my computer wasn't registering that it was plugged in, which would be very bad. It would have meant that either the cord or the back of the computer wasn't working. I came back to find that Jamie flipped the circuit switch (wherever that is) and it works fine now. So that's good. At least my computer isn't broken.

Today is an inside work day. It's cold and crappy out and looks like it might storm, and Chris has a lot to do on the computer. That's fine by me. He set me to a few tasks that would save him a lot of time if he didn't have to do them. He'll have more for me by 1, so I came back and ate leftover stir fry. It was nice to eat a hot lunch.

Tomorrow we're going to Washington Gulch, which we have to drive to for part of the way, and then he'll take me grocery shopping. That's good that it's convenient to do that because I just ran out of cereal, and I could use more yogurt, milk, bread, cheese, and a few other things. Maybe pancake mix or something. Oh, and ice cream. Ice cream once in a while is essential to one's happiness.

Current music: "Buttons" - Pussycat Dolls