The gas woman cometh

I was slightly disappointed to hear from Nicor that they had to come and read my gas meter, and that I had to be in at the time because they couldn't magically get into the basement, and that they would come sometime in a four hour window. Sigh... I'm going to be waiting till the end. But no, they came slap in the middle of 7:30am - 11:30am at the very convenient time of 9:30am. The only downside is that now I have no excuse not to go to work...