Called FINE excel energy this morning. They sent me a bill for 1100ish. The person I finally got to talk to after threading the dangerous phone maze was very nice. Seems they had taken a reading on my meter in July 2002, and had been estimating my usage from that. Then they took another reading in December 2003. The new reading was much higher, so they redid my last 6 months of billing and hit me with a bill for the diffrence. It still didn't add up tho. It was much higher than it should have been. They had me read off the current meter reading and in the last month it's been higher than it was, but still not near what they were billing me for. The reason they were estimating it was that they couldn't get into my yard, because I have a padlock on the gate. So, finally they decided they would cancel this bill, tell their billing people to re-figure it and send me a new bill. They would also send me a schedule for when they read meters here so I can possibly open the gate for them. What a pain, but at least they were nice about it.

In other news, The Clumsy Lovers are playing the southern sun tonight. I am gonna head over around 8ish and get a late dinner and have beers and watch the show. Anyone in the area reading this should go. ;)