The city electrical inspector has passed our new meter! Probably doesn’t sound like much to you, but it is a humongous deal to me.

So a new electrical meter costs four thousand dollars, but here’s the weird  thing: you get the meter for free from DWP, it is the metal box that you install it on that costs so much. And it is an empty metal box! It is a very specific shape, granted, but it is still a stamped out steel box.

Four thousand bucks.

Damn.

My electrician Roberto Orion Galarpe points to the expensive metal box for the inspector who is wearing an “I heart Jesus” lanyard.