In the velvet darkness
Jul. 8th, 2004 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcWell, the lunch went fairly well, just a short walk to the restaurant, which has a good waterfront position (they only started marketing the area as a new chic and trendy waterfront less than two years ago), the area used to be a natural river inlet, but they did it all up, and made a wandering path alongside a paved stream and lakes.
Anyway, spent most of the lunch gazing out the windows (too much noise to talk), saw a flock of corellas on the farthest shore (in addition to the galahs that we nosing around the path on the way).
So, why am I writing this now? "Is it not morning where you are?" I hear asked... Well, it's because when I got home I found I had no electricity. Supply is normal in the city, no cuts, account is paid up... but my house has got super sensitive safety switches (Strine->English translation: circuit breakers we use so we don't have to replace fuses all the time) and since the weather was a bit wooly last night but not too bad (touch of hail, distant lightning) it was still enough to keep the main switch cutting in at the thirty second mark (one time in the afternoon I had power for eight whole minutes, joy!) So, no computer for me last night. Or telly. Or lights... 'twas an early night for me! Luckily the hot water stayed on :D
Fortunately they say that the weather will improve from around lunchtime, so things should be back to normal when I get home... think I'll pick up some extra D-cell batteries for the torches just to make sure...
Time today to continue the grand work... filling in a workmate's education in a critically lacking area - of all the scifi she's watched, she's never seen Deep Space Nine :o
Oh, and doing all the stuff I normally do here too ;) Request request request process in process out mail mail asking what they who were here before us were smoking while cataloguing request request... and of course the morning tea for our retiring workmate today - kinda party atmosphere at the moment :)
*goes to sign in properly on timesheet*
Anyway, spent most of the lunch gazing out the windows (too much noise to talk), saw a flock of corellas on the farthest shore (in addition to the galahs that we nosing around the path on the way).
So, why am I writing this now? "Is it not morning where you are?" I hear asked... Well, it's because when I got home I found I had no electricity. Supply is normal in the city, no cuts, account is paid up... but my house has got super sensitive safety switches (Strine->English translation: circuit breakers we use so we don't have to replace fuses all the time) and since the weather was a bit wooly last night but not too bad (touch of hail, distant lightning) it was still enough to keep the main switch cutting in at the thirty second mark (one time in the afternoon I had power for eight whole minutes, joy!) So, no computer for me last night. Or telly. Or lights... 'twas an early night for me! Luckily the hot water stayed on :D
Fortunately they say that the weather will improve from around lunchtime, so things should be back to normal when I get home... think I'll pick up some extra D-cell batteries for the torches just to make sure...
Time today to continue the grand work... filling in a workmate's education in a critically lacking area - of all the scifi she's watched, she's never seen Deep Space Nine :o
Oh, and doing all the stuff I normally do here too ;) Request request request process in process out mail mail asking what they who were here before us were smoking while cataloguing request request... and of course the morning tea for our retiring workmate today - kinda party atmosphere at the moment :)
*goes to sign in properly on timesheet*
