a week and a half later i finally get online to post the blog i wrote over a week ago. i've stuck it below this one in blue. i've got a stinking cold. i really hope i'm able to sing okay at the gig on sunday night. i think it really blossomed into a stinker on the plane back from london on monday evening. this girl beside me was coughing alot and maybe a stray germ floated and plopped into my gin and tonic. i don't know why, but the only time i drink g&t is on planes. maybe i think i'm alan whicker or something. i had a bit of a weekend in london and met up with some great people. my friend craig knows alot of really interesting characters down there and every few months there's usually a night out where he gets everyone along. it just seems to work so beautifully. on saturday we were all sat in a vietnamese restaurant in east london and the chat was flowing (along with the wine) and i reckon that no matter where any one of us was sitting we'd have been able to turn and have a good chat with the person we were beside. i think it's coz it's such a diverse bunch; scots, irish, japanese, danish, english etc. i love finding out about people and especially people with different backgrounds to my own. i think that's why i love big melting-pot cities like london and new york. i look forward to the next one of these nights. like alot of good things in life i think coz it happens so infrequently it feels special. anyway, here's the old post.
you know, technically this computer has crashed. everything else has gone from the screen but i can still type in the word programme, which is what i'm doing right now. i've put some gerry mulligan / johnny hodges on to calm me down. okay, deep breaths. i think i suffer from computer rage. good jazz music seems to help me during times like this coz it has a really pleasant calming effect.
it's odd, but the first thing i wrote when i sat down at this computer and started typing into word was 'technology sucks' then the computer froze. technology is the bain of my life just now. if it's not phone lines not working, it's viruses infiltrating my computer or the godamn thing just crashing or having a warped, sick mind of its own. i woke up on saturday and my phone line was dead. again. i'm tired of phone line roulette each day. so, i couldn't check my email or have a look at the internet. then i tried to listen to some music through the computer (coz my cd player on my hi-fi got depressed and killed itself) and it refused.
i sought comfort in old friend mother nature and went out in the afternoon with bassist alan. i was trying on glasses and he was helping by taking digital photos of me with different frames on. it's the only way to do it really, how the hell can i choose frames if i can't clearly see what i look like! we did that for a while then we were walking around the west end. it was bright, sunny and we were both in good spirits. i'd had two sausage rolls so i was positively glowing and alan was feeling flush and splashed out on tuna sarnies AND a macaroni pie. we passed a second hand shop and spotted a pc - "£28 the lot" the sign said. "no way!" i thought. "it can't have anything inside, maybe just bricks". "i'll take it, it's a decent monitor" alan said before rushing into the shop and shoving a purple note and pound coins in the owner's hand. both of us stumbled back to alan's flat and low and behold it works! it just needed an operating system apparently. £28! then i came back to my flat , still no phone line and the computer wouldn't start up properly. i think i'll start writing letters, my typewriter hasn't had an action in a long time, but at least he never lets me down..
on saturday night i put all of my tech rage to one side and went out dressed as a toff with my trilby, chord jacket, 70s slazenger short-sleeved t-shirt, black brogues, blue chords and silk scarf on. i went with three scary neds and another toff. it was a fancy dress party, the theme of which was neds and toffs. i thought i looked pretty dandy considering i was making do with what i could find in the wardrobe at short notice. there are photos. i might post them up sometime. i look a bit like doctor who circa tom baker period.
i went away for a while there to run my bath. i totally forgot about it and it's now cold and wasted. there's no hot water left, i've used it all up. today's been really rubbish. from the moment i got up and felt unusually tired and grumpy till right now i've felt fed up all day. a black cloud followed me around. it's strange coz it started raining this afternoon yet it's been lovely for at least a couple of weeks. surely i'm not that affected by the environment? maybe it's just coincidental. i'll have to turn the computer off now, leave it for about an hour then try and post this. think i'll have a boiled egg. they never let you down either. unless you get salmonella of course.
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