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Friday, July 10, 2009

Friday night: should get out more edition

As I mentioned in the comments, just minutes after posting yesterday I received an e-mail with our gas & electric bill, which was twice as high as it usually is for this time of year. How did I know it was too high? Common sense? Six years of living in this house? Or, perhaps, my spreadsheet, updated monthly, with all our gas & electric bills for the past three years?


See, that spike there in the purple 2009 line just didn't make sense. I called to figure out what was going on, and there actually was some kind of mistake in the meter read and they're going to send a new bill. So I'm about 1 for 5 this week. I started the graph to see if it made a difference in the bill when we switched to wind power (end of 2007) or when we replaced all the windows (summer 2007).

Trust me, if I could drink right now I would be doing that instead. Or, more likely, simultaneously.

2 comments:

V said...

with an n of 2 it's impossible to say for sure, but I think it may be an affliction common to epidemiologists as I do the exact same thing (including, condition permitting, drinking)

bleisenblog said...

heh, that's good to know. people usually start squirming a little when i tell them about my budget spreadsheet.