Thanks to you for your haiku - it came just in time. Without it, I wouldn't have been prompted to condense into three lines what happened on friday:

- we were preparing a barbecue at the outskirts of our company, but before short, 'twas raining cats and dogs, thunder after lightning with no delay, water, water pouring in through holes we didn't know of, the whole crew wet and busy trying to save things and avoiding electric shocks; we shut down our business completely, mainframe and all.

Then after, still daylight, the scenery changed: the settling sun broke through, pouring golden light over a freshly washed, clean and utterly unbusy industrial estate. We had our beer without scorching dead animals, to the sound of "To Be Over" from the Yes album "Relayer". My colleagues surprisingly enjoyed that, and I was glad... 

We go sailing down the calming streams,
Drifting endlessly by the bridge.
To be over, we will see, to be over.

Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays;
Always doors to lock away your dreams.
Think it over, time will heal your fear, think it over.
Balance the thoughts that release within you.

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In reply to Re^3: Gathering ... big tempest struck by shmem
in thread Gathering High-Desert Storm by ack

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