Tag: in the dark.

The unexpected blackout of yesterday had a few happy consequences:

1. Katy and I had a nice and extremely tasty candlelight meal at the pub.

It was crammed full of Hinxton folk who also didn't have electricity. When the lights came back on around 8:30, people asked for them to be dimmed back down in the dining room :D It seems that everybody preferred the atmosphere without the lights (well, except the chef in the kitchen who was apparently not a happy bunny having to cook everything with only 3 pans – still, he did a damn good job)

2. A nice meal was followed by a nice evening with no lights on (well, as few as possible)

3. Since the servers melted at work, combined with a long Easter weekend, the audience for my Thursday morning presentation was greatly reduced from it's normal (and intimidating) size. My talk was well received, which makes me happy.

I don't know if I mentioned this or nor already but they're building a new building at the EBI to alleviate the chronic shortage of office space. As such, parts of the grounds are now a construction site.

Today, a contractor cut through a power cable so everything at work ground to a complete halt as UPSes started chirping their doom-and-gloom birdcalls. When the switches for the phones and network ran out of juice, everybody decided to call it quits and go home. I thought I could go home and finish working on the presentation I'm supposed to be giving tomorrow morning.

Except that apparently, that power cable is more important than I thought cause we don't have any electricity at home at the moment. The only reason I can get online at present is because my laptop is battery powered and I have a USB modem. This, however, will not last for ever.

We are not amused.