Bye Bye Birdie

My wife's bird passed away today. I left the house to get something out of the car and got in a conversation with one of the neighbors. I came back to find it flapping around in the toilet. I won't go into details about his last few moments but he was pretty much gone seconds after I pulled him out. I got to the vet as fast as I could anyway in case they were able to see some sign of life left and/or some chance to revive him but it was hopeless.

I knew I was going to catch hell from my wife because my dumb-ass should have closed the cage before I left. So I went looking around Petsmarts trying to find another sun conure that looked like the one I lost. After my third stop, there it was with its face buried in the food bowl. I needed to see the rest of him to make sure I had a match. I knocked on the window and it walked up to me. I thought "Yes, perfect!" I took it home but as soon as I heard it scream I knew I spoke too soon. It sounded different from the original bird.

Well I can only keep my fingers crossed and hope she leaves for work before it starts sounding off again. Then I'm sure I'll have to spill it.

First post

Ok... what to blog about? Well, a couple weeks ago I got a bill in the mail from the school telling me I had an outstanding balance of at least $1K. I talked to my Veteran's Affairs (VA) Rep to find out what that was all about. So what happened was the Cisco courses I signed up for last spring were cancelled at the Laurel campus and so the VA office didn't pay for it. The college offered me to take the course in Largo, which I accepted, but they didn't submit that change to the VA office. So, my VA advisor submitted the memo to the office and warned me next time a course is cancelled and I sign up for something else to make sure I submit the form to clear that up with the office. I guess now I'll go see what my classmates are blogging about and comment on their entries.