The sun is scheduled to set today at 5:43pm, by Friday that time will have slid back to 5:50pm. This is a trend in the right direction, I get that. However, it does put some urgency into scheduling a happy hour at the Visions Lounge at the Renaissance Hotel.

High in the sky, filled with plush upholstered seating, flanked on two walls with windows boasting views of the skyline and Sound beyond, the Visions Lounge is an old-fashioned (80s) feeling cocktail bar; it looks like a place where the boys from Bosom Buddies might have taken their dates—their lady dates, the ones who don’t know that they are drag queens. There is no absinthe fountain or glass jar full of lemon-infused vodka. The specialty cocktails are made with stuff like Stoli Rasberry and Malibu coconut-flavored rum.

Nevermind those. Happy hour runs from 4 to 6pm on weekdays, right now that means when you scarf down $4 HH apps (fig and prosciutto flatbreads, fried asparagus with Cajun remoulade) while sipping a draft beer for $4 or a glass of wine for $5, you can do so while watching as the setting sun glints up the skyscrapers and throws little pazzazzes of light all over the water.

Time’s awastin’.