somnolent deluxe

fuck me, what a day. It's been one of those jobs where everything that could go wrong does.
we were working late, and at around 10, suddenly everything went black. JOY, a powercut.
followed by the disheartening whine of hard drives cut off mid flow, and an unquantified amount of work lost.
So we thought, fuck it,we'll go to the pub for a couple and come back when its back on.
But alas, the "electric" shutter on the front door was firmly in the shut position. And after a brief attempt to wrestle it open, it was decided that without a blowtorch it was highly fucking unlikely we'd get out.
We could get onto the roof, but there was no going anywhere from there. apart from the next building which had stairs down, but was a clear 10 ft away.
I briefly considered a bourne style roof jump, until i realised that A) i'm not jason bourne B) jason bourne is fictional and C) even if he wasn't and i was him, i would still either break my hip or bounce off the security glass and slide down the wall with less that graceful finesse.
needless to say... no beer for us, just waiting...in the dark. for 3 hrs.
I had to laugh.