We took Friday off to wait for the furnace man and work on the house. Amazingly, where last week's furnace man (who was not covered by our warranty) was all set to replace it rather than fix it, this week's man (who is covered by warranty) was able to fix it in no time flat. So we have heat, I was actually too warm one night. Ahh.

Saturday, I picked up a new foster dog, who we're calling Patty for the moment. We're hoping to find out what her name really is. Her people thought she was food agressive and could (after 9 years in their home) decide to bite their grandkids, since there's all this news about dogs attacking people. The dog is fat, so very fat, but not food agressive in the least, even around Alice, the queen of food agression.

We had dinner at this crazy crappy resturant attached to a seedy motel near our house because it was the only thing open. Our waitress was on speed, she talked a mile a minute asking over and over did we want some soup? It's split pea and very good do you mind if I sit down my back really hurts the soup is really good did I tell you that already? At one point she just walked outside and didn't come back for about 10 minutes, then the cook (Angel, this I know because our waitress kept shouting "Angel! I need a cheese kes-a-diya!") went out to his car. When we left she told us we could go out the back door, that she didn't care if the alarm went off.

Last night we went to Hot Pot City, where first a small baby with a very large (in stature) family fell from his carrier on top of a chair and hit the ground with a loud smack. Ouch! The parents decided to hold him for the rest of the meal so I got to watch as a large welt appeared on his forehead. As if that wasn't enough excitement, one of the hot plates caught on fire, and not just a little fire, but a decent-sized one. Most people were stunned, and just watched, myself included. Andrea jumped into action with a big spoon, meaning to turn the heat off but the adjuster wasn't working so at long last fine Hot Pot City employees appeared to make the flames go away.