more bark bark and other annoyances

Well, the reason the dog didn't bark on Friday was that the husband was sick and stayed home. And they were around all long weekend, so ditto. But when I chatted with the wife (I'd talked to the husband before) she said they didn't have an anti-bark collar, but they'd rented one before when they'd had a bark problem. So they'd look into getting one again, but the place they'd gone before was out of business, so it might take a while for them to take care of it.

Meanwhile, bark bark bark bark. Grrr.

And in other life-sucks news, our new furnace didn't come on this morning because enough water had leaked out that the water pressure wasn't high enough. Well, we had to phone the company we bought it from first to figure that out, because the display had a mysterious error code that wasn't in the manual. A chilly cold morning (56 degrees in the house). It's nearly noon, we have two space heaters running along with the replenished furnace, and things are only 63 so far as it takes a long time for the furnace to heat the place up from scratch. Brrrrr.

Bark bark bark bark.

Woe, woe is us.