One benefit of an apartment lacking air conditioning

I got home at 11 p.m., after an eventful but enjoyable day off. I found our first MassElectric bill on the kitchen table (we had NStar, the old Boston Edison, in Woburn and in Somerville).

Four dollars, zero cents.

This bill only covered fourteen days, but it's still only four American bucks. I spent $3.75 on a really lousy eclair in Beacon Hill this evening (which went into the trash within two blocks of walking).

I'm tempted to call tomorrow and make sure. It says I've only used 11 kilowatt-hours. How? Maggie leaves her computer on all the time. The ceiling fan has churned at full blast nonstop. I own a TV and a bucket load of electronic appliances. We aren't stingy. How can I only wind up with a four-dollar bill?

Maybe I shouldn't call -- why jinx it, eh? tafkar, you'd know protocol about this, wouldn't you?

I miss air conditioning. I crank it in the car. I just about rub myself on the vents at the office. Air conditioning is civilization. Without it, though, life is amazingly cheaper.

That reminds me: I owe fangirl715 a check for gas and electric. I keep saying "I'll drop that off when I'm back over there to grab the filing cabinet". Then I get distracted.

( More about my day. Almost nothing geeky! )

By the way, hakamadare? I ran "fsck -y /dev/hda7" in Linux rescue. Then I tried to reboot and still had problems. In fact, the system then said to run fsck MANUALLY (no -a), which led me to choose one no instead of a yes and no further developments. I'll poke around in the morning.

-I feel like Bob Dobbs, fnord