Beth's appointment went really well. The doctor down in LR told us that she was doing great, and we don't need to go see him anymore. Which is good because we got a bill for $9000 from the hospital this week. Seems our insurance has paid exactly $15 so far. Typical. The guy at the hospital accounts receivable desk told me that our HMO is notorious for slow payment so we have to call and yell at them. Anyway, Beth has to stay on the birth control pills for another month and a half, and then the doc says we can start trying again. In the meantime, Beth's working again. the half days this week never happened since they've been so busy. Including today (Saturday), she had 51 hours this week. Which is good since she's been so bored being cooped up in the house since the surgery. No word about the new job I put in for; I'm not holding my breath since I figure if they were going to interview me I'd have heard about it by now. We went to see "Hannibal" this evening...it was good...very true to the book until the very end...but we got to the theater about 5 minutes before the show started and it was just about sold out, so we had to sit in the first row. (What is the last thing you would ever want to hear Dr. Hannibal Lecter say to you? How about "This is really going to hurt.") Our furnace has been acting up lately, this morning it was 58 degrees in here. We've had a furnace tech coming to try to fix it but I'm less than impressed with their efforts. He started on Monday and it still isn't fixed. And he doesn't tell us when he's going to show up so we keep getting 'sorry we missed you! Ha ha!' letters on the door too. Also, we started looking for a used car for Beth today because it's getting to be a pain only having one with both of us working. Got our eye on a '94 Saturn.