Save your drains, clog your arteries instead!

Hopefully the insurance payout doesn't take long, and you can rebuild quickly.

I went the opposite direction, I was a long haired hippy kid back in my school days, kept the long hair for decades until it started coming out on its own.

Honestly though, I love the feel of having a shaved head now, and the ease and simplicity of having no hair is full of convenience. I'm amazed that headshaving isn't more common than it is.

Exactly! A shaved head is much more attractive than one with some wispy and scraggly hair coming off it. (Or is in my case, anyways.)

Plus, I have to say, I've come to love the feel of having a freshly shaved head, not to mention the convenience. If I knew, I would have done it years ago.

Hey, plenty of us who shave our heads aren't crazy neo-nazis. It's a hairstyle, not a political choice.

There's a few options here:

One, energy costs just recently went up a bunch. Everybody's getting much bigger bills than before, so it could be that, and we're just getting used to it.

Two: If this is a single month spike payment, it could be that CMP, for whatever reason, couldn't get to your meter to read it. They'll then estimate your power use for the month, and tend to estimate HIGH. You'll get a credit the following month when they get the actual reading.

Three, you could actually have an appliance that's sucking up a lot of juice. CMP does have an energy meter log that can show you how much juice you've been using per month. If that's suddenly spiked, you want to check your appliances. Electric water heaters, space heaters, and pumps (Well or sump) can all end up running constantly when something fails or is forgotten, and will gobble up juice when this happens.

Four, as I don't know Nautilus, make sure your agreement with them didn't include any extra fees or charges, particularly for the first X months of signup sort of thing.

Those would be the possibilities I can think of.

I don't go through nautilus, but I use another community solar, and I get split bills as well. I believe I can explain:

During the winter, your Community Solar area makes considerably less energy. Not enough to fully cover all the members electric costs. (If they made enough electricity in the winter, they'd be overproducing in the summer, so it's always going to work out this way with small scale solar)

So, you get an equal or otherwise appropriate share of the energy made by your community solar, and then cover the rest through another provider. That other provider's costs show up through CMP.

On top of that, CMP charges for the delivery of power, completely separate from providing power.

So after busting everyone's balls for being unspecific, you're hauling out "A lot of outages" as a sufficient answer?

I think you know just where you can cram it, buddy.

Yeah? Give us a link to one then.

Mainer here. None of these are in common use up here.

As long as "Bro" or one of it's derivatives doesn't become popular it up here, I'm happy.

As a public librarian, I can tell you that it's more than once I have had a child tell me "I'm too sick to go to school, so mommy/daddy brought me here!"

I remember once having a kid come in, spend 3 hours playing around on a number of our public computers, then tell us that he has pinkeye on the way out the door.

You'd think people would know better. They don't.

Unless you're trying to learn something from the book, it's fine not to finish it.

A book that's a good match for you will be hard to put down, not hard to finish.

A big part of the problem is that this is the first really slick storm we've seen this season. It takes a few before people remember how to drive on ice and snow.. And even then, the road is full of idiots.

Drive slow, assume the worst of other drivers, and buckle up!

I can still hear the top half of the image.

The real LPT is always in the comments, lol.