Tonight I was innocently making supper - stuffed peppers - my peppers were sitting in the baking dish waiting for the hamburger/tomato filling that was simmering on the stove.  Suddenly sparks started flying and there was a loud hissing noise.  The coil burner under the pan had burned through and sent a flame like a welders arc right through the bottom of the frying pan.  I grabbed the pan off the stove and put  it in the sink and the sparks died down and all was once again right with the world.  Except for the inch long hole burned in the bottom of my pan.  Looks like the landlord will be buying me a new pan, this is the 2nd one this stove did this to.  I really wish he would just break down and buy us a decent stove.

It looks like Bonsai the cat is going to survive.  He was so sick that we honestly didn't think he was going to make it through the night Wednesday night.  The vet had no clue what was wrong with him and just gave us some medicine and told us to hope it worked.  Fortunately, it looks like it did.  Though his tail is still really sore for some reason.  It looks like he doesn't understand that its something wrong with the tail itself and thinks someone is doing it to him.  He'll be sitting there, then all of a sudden, he'll yowl, jump up and look behind him, like he's going to catch the culprit who's causing him so much grief.  He's still got a bit of recovery ahead of him, but at least he isn't bleeding from the gums anymore, which he had been doing, which is completely gross.