The unexpected blackout of yesterday had a few happy consequences:<\/p>\n
1. Katy and I had a nice and extremely tasty candlelight meal at the pub.<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
2. A nice meal was followed by a nice evening with no lights on (well, as few as possible)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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…<\/p>\n