On my way out the door this morning Catherine handed me a business card from our electric meter reader; he’d knocked on the door of our house yesterday looking for information about the Blueline Power Cost Monitor that’s strapped to our meter and wanted me to give him a call.

We spoke on the phone for 5 minutes this morning and any fears I might have had — “look, you can’t just go strapping unauthorized equipment to your electric meter” — were immediately assuaged: he just wanted to know where I got the monitor, what kind of information it gave me, and how much it cost me. He was just curious, in other words.

It’s nice to have an electric company with employees like this.