. . . and then I'll quit. I just want information available to anyone who searches on them, so they know what they're likely to (not) get if they go for help. The facts of the story are over on ljfwolffe.livejournal.com. I submitted the following rant to the Portland Mercury's "I, Anonymous" column (and trust me -- for them, the language is tame):

Thanks for Screwing Us, Community Energy Project

You could have told us you didn’t want to help us when we first asked; when you showed up for the assessment; when you canceled the first appointment; or when you finally called back a month later. But you didn’t. You chose to call us the day before the second appointment, two months after we first contacted you, to let us know that you refused to work on our house . . . because we smoke. Never mind the air purifier that we run before people come over, or that we wouldn’t smoke in the house while you were here. Never mind that friends with allergies visit us when we do this and don’t get sick. Never mind that we canceled our Christmas for you. You saw ashtrays, and that makes us evil. That makes it OK for you to screw with a disabled person and their family, make them wait for months, only to call and say, “We don’t want to take a chance we might smell cigarettes, so you can go twist in the wind!” Thanks a lot, Community Energy Project. We can tell how much you REALLY care about poor, disabled, COLD people. Way to discriminate. Assholes.

[We now return you to your regularly scheduled programs.]

I'm so sorry you guys got this bs. If they don't catch us coming or going, they slam the door in our faces. :(