so, i called the worker at 8:31 and she told me everything is going through.

i called the landlord after noon, and she told me everything will be fine.....but i have to wait until the 29th.

i can't tell my existing landlord that i'm moving until i get the keys.

i have until the 4th to file the appeal, if this collapses. but, i can technically afford first & last month's rent on the 30th, regardless, so it's hard to see what's going to happen besides my new landlord bailing on the deal.

i put my fridge up on kijiji, but i'm wondering if it might be more efficient than what's there. i didn't really check. it's a very big fridge, but it's decently efficient for it's size - it's 700 kwh/year, which is about 60 kwh/month. if the fridge in the unit is very old, i might be better off bringing this one.

with the discount i'm getting, my energy budget is about 250 kwh/month - if i go over that, i start having to actually pay. given that i don't use the stove or the air conditioning, and i'm not paying for heat or hot water, i actually don't think i'll have much to worry about in at least keeping it under 300 kwh/month, which would be about a $10/month charge.

i've never had to pay electricity before, but there's so much hysteria around it that i wasn't going to find anything all inclusive. and, like i say, with the rebate, i'm almost better off with it separated from the rent. the rebate was really the key point, though. if that rebate collapses i might even have to move. but, i'm going to come down on this really conservatively to start: i'm going to keep everything off between 7 am and 7 pm for the first cycle, and try to keep my usage to the absolute bare minimum, to start, just to get a kind of background noise. i'm even going to disconnect my cable modem when i'm not using it. it's just to help me figure out what the bare minimum cost is, so i can slowly bring in more and more things.

i'm going to presume, for example, that my pod xt is probably a pig. if my background noise - fridge, stove top, microwave, lights, one computer at a time, battery charger - is closer to 100 kwh than 200 kwh, i shouldn't worry much about plugging in. but, if i end up pushing the 250 right off the bat, i'm going to need to be more careful.

i only have a few more discs left to close. i'm going to focus entirely on that this weekend, and hope to ship the balance of the remaining order on monday, so i can get ready for the move on tuesday and actually move on wednesday, thursday & friday.