To what does the title refer? My health unfortunately. Add to that the time discrepancy between the American clocks that had been changed to Summertime setting and the UK and European ones that have not and I guess I should have know things were going to be challenging this week.
Last Monday night saw Sunwolf and I playing at Southbound, to a small but appreciative group of people. After us should have been the little green dragoness Ari, but she had been quite unwell and so had to cancel her shows
Luckily Cailidgh Spires stepped in to provide an hour of first class entertainment.
After Caili all three of us went off to watch Gweeb. Blackdwarfbud was also with us, she is, as I have mentioned before an RL friend I have known for many, many years and it is so good to have her joining us on SL at last.
Gweeb was doing a two hour set and I must confess though I enjoyed every minutes, it struck me it was a long time to be on stage compared to the usual hour. I thought this because Sunwolf and I were due to do back to back shows the following day, something we have never done before and I was a bit concerned as to how I would hold up. It was late by the time we finally logged off .
Tuesday, we spent some time re modelling our SL home. Sunwolf likes to build when we are not around the grid and we had decided to completely clear our land and start again. Looking back this perhaps wasn't a wise thing to do but we live and learn.
We did give ourselves a break before our first show of the day. We were opening a fundraiser for R F L and were very proud to be part of this incredible timetable of events. For those who may not know, R F L is a fund raising initiative aimed at raising money to aide in helping to find a cure for Cancer. As has been stated by a number of people, there is hardly anyone alive today who has not lost a loved one, friend or relative, or in fact had a brush with this disease themselves. Sunwolf and I had only lost a dear friend in December last year to it, and we have both lost a parent that way too. So as I said, it was an honour to be the opening act for one of these events.
The show went well though we finished a minute or two early as we had another show immediately following it on the hour at our regular venue The Drunken Drow. We managed to get there and set up with the minimum of fuss and I thanked the powers that be for the Boone of a placid SL doing what it was meant to and not playing . I managed the two hours really well if anything more fired up than normal, but Sunwolf's fingers didn't like it much and I don't think it is something we would want to do regularly, back to back shows I mean.
Cailidgh was again following us, as we are good friends in RL as well as Sl we stayed to watch then went to our land to continue our re modelling and that's when it all began to play up. Sunwolf was repeatedly told he was already logged in when he wasn't, and I was unable to rez anything. After a short while messing about getting no where fast, we gave up and went to watch a D V D.
Wednesday saw us completing our land changes just in time to go to the Pub for our show there. In spite of it being a hour earlier than normal,we had a few people show up so we weren't playing to an empty room as I had feared we might.
Ringo Playing at our Pub.
We were followed by Ringo Robonaught, he was using new equipment and his sound was even better than it had been, it was a most enjoyable set. Gweeb took the stage for our last act for the day and as usual had us all laughing. He managed to run over time by 20 minutes as he sang a song about Caili and just about everything else he could put in there. We were in stitches and as we were finishing an hour earlier than normal due to those blessed time change problems, there was no pressure to close, not that we do anyway we often encourage folks to stay to dance or chat if they wish.
Thursday was a beautiful day in RL and we had quite a bit to do that kept us away from the PCs. We did take some time to watch the frogs in our little wildlife pond and a little vole scuttling about getting grass for her nest.The bees were about and flowers opening and we could sit outside with just lightweight clothing on soaking up the fresh air and warmth after months of being shut in stuffy rooms.
We were on line in plenty of time to play our regular Waffles show. I was a little disappointed that Conor Savage was not on before us, as I so love listening to him. So we opened that day and the show was well attended. Unfortunately it was a cut and run day as we were needed back in RL.
We did get back on line to go to Spice in the evening. Tim Anadyr opened as he usually does and by the time his set was finished Sunwolf and I were well chilled out.
Next to play was Mash Rhode and we had been looking forward to hearing him. He played an hour set of Beatles songs and he did it well, but Sunwolf and are are among the few who never liked the Beatles. Sorry I know that is Sacrilege to many and there is the odd song of theirs that we don't mind, but I am an honest sort and that is the truth of it.
Dusty Smythe was next to the stage and did a great set. We have always loved Dusty's shows from the first time we saw him when he was doing a fill in at Guthries.
Linus Radford was following Dusty and we had only heard him once before but it wasn't to be. On his second song I started to feel decidedly unwell and I have had this problem for enough years now to recognise the clues. So it was time to log out and go to bed.
Friday I managed to do our set at Guthries. I am so glad about that, there was a good audience and the show went well, though we had to laugh when we were caught in a rolling restart with two minutes to go before the end of our set. We normally stay to watch the wonderful line up Dottie puts together, but though I left my Avi dancing, I was laying on the sofa feeling far from good. I had hoped enough rest early on might pull me through but it didn't look likely and by the time I had finished hosting at our venue on Friday evening I was just about all in, so instead of dancing at Cuddlers Cove in SL, I was laying in bed feeling decidedly rough in RL.
Saturday I again missed my regular afternoon at Cuddlers. I couldn't operate my keyboard anyway as the trapped nerve in my neck was also giving me hell. I managed to rally enough to do our opening show for RFL and was thrilled when Dottie turned up for a few minutes before she left for RL work. It was so nice to see her at a show where she wasn't having to work, if only for a little while. I was going to log then but I had said I would try to make the 24 hour fundraiser for Feed a Smile and when I saw that our dear friend Quinton was playing I was determined to stay on line just one more hour. It was worth every minute of it.
Since then I have not been on line until it was time to do this blog. As you have probably guessed I hate letting folks down and will only do so when I absolutely have to.
Hoping for a better week this week.
Love to you all.
No comments:
Post a Comment