Mudgutz meetup

mini meet
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Sunday was slated for a meetup with DJ Mudgutz, and given the excessive heat (40+ C)we had to take some special precautions. The original meet-point was Transport at federation square, because it's easy to meet at and very well air-conditioned, although the drinks are expensive, especially on this day since the beer taps weren't functioning :)
After some discussion we decided to try E55 as we knew it was cheap, and it was bound to be relatively cold, being underground.
All was going well, we were joined by some more friends and were having a bit of a drink and a bit of a surf and so forth.
The drinking and surfing was interrupted when the lights went out.
At first everyone just laughed, we'd all heard that there had been brown-outs throughout the warm weather and just put it down to that, at least for the first 10 minutes. Most of the guys got their cameras out and were flashing away up until one of the bartenders asked s2art to stop because it was really annoying :) and I see his point, trying to fix a problem at work in the pitch dark and all you get is constant flashes :)
We ended up having to relocate and made our way to The Elephant and Wheelbarrow, which is nasty, but they had decent food and good A/C :)
By the time we finished up the cool change had come through and the wind was blowing a gale through town. Melbourne :)