I came to the back-up-back-up café this afternoon after the difficulty of getting a second latte yesterday in the back-up café. They are so short staffed in there and it’s such a big café. With Upright, the personable waitress with the upright posture, still ill, the service was worse than usual. I left without the second coffee. They’re nice guys in there, but honestly, the service is often appalling.
I went for a 12k lunchtime run. The park, we’re now in festival season, is barrier-heavy right now so it’s a right pain trying to find a decent route to run right now and likely to be like that for the next few weeks.
I finally arrived here in SW8 after a dental check-up which thankfully wasn’t as expensive as anticipated. I don’t mess around with teeth. Whatever the issue was, I was going to have to fork out for it, haunted as I am by ‘94’s root canal saga, but thankfully while I’m substantially lighter in the pocket this afternoon, I know it could’ve been a lot worse. I’d had to cancel tonight’s Chatham gig in case I ended up with some work that left me gigging with a swollen mouth. While that wasn’t the case, it was better to be safe than sorry and I had let the promoter know over the weekend.
There’s a lot to go over and I’ll try and do that with a combination of Substack posts and Patreon audio in the coming days. I’m coping well with various stresses and I think most of us will have stress we need to manage. It’s hard to feel upbeat right now simply because of what’s going on with my uncle and knowing what a gap that’s going to leave. I’m doing my best to focus on appreciating him while he’s still with us.
This week I have a Thursday night gig in Rochester, which I think is in Kent, right (?) and on Sunday I’m in Brighton. I’m tweaking my newest set slightly, we’re just talking a 30-second segment and I’m also trying to write a short new set to debut at the end of this month. Finding the time to do all these things isn’t easy. I’m pleased to write than work on my script has been much better the last week. It’s still some way from being finished but I’m on the right track.
I’ll finish by reporting that the music in here right now is LOUD and awful.
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