I called the power company. Their database system was down. They said they couldn't remember the last time this had happened.
Just my luck. ;-)
Guess I'll start working on the e-mail instead. I know it's nothing *that* scary...but I never know how to word something when someone is kinda doing me a favor without sounding either ungrateful or fawning. Ick.
Yeah - it's kindof a weird situation... I'd be happy to look at it too, I just wanted to get the two of you communicating instead of me in the middle, so that if he backtracks more, it's not only me you resent ;~D
He's an OK guy... but relatively new to English, so keep the language simple.