Educational and pleasurable hookey

We got back from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this afternoon, having attended eight plays in a week. Normally this much indoor sitting around would make me pretty antsy, but it grew hotter and hotter as the days passed, with a midweek rip-roaring thunderstorm providing drama but not a good deal of relief, so the air conditioned environments were pleasant. We were sitting in a restaurant with my beloved spouse's mom when the storm descended, knocking out the power. Our server, a woman we were acquainted with from another bistro where she had conducted herself with great aplomb after a co-worker walked out during the peak of the dinner hour, was no less calm and self-possessed as she went about determining what foods might be possible to obtain in case the power didn't come back. It did, and we didn't starve. All was well at home upon our return.