2024/02/10

This week somehow felt me feeling very drained, for reasons I cannot fully put my finger on. I think the lack of activity due to the corn in my left foot is taking its toll on me. Anyway, I slept for pretty much the entire day. After lunch, I was back in bed as I did not have the energy or motivation, and has a splitting headache. I was supposed to go for Bill Bailey's "Thoughtifier" show in the SSE Arena in Belfast at 6:30pm, and my initial plan was to take the bus (so leave at 4pm), then switched to cycling in (so leave at 5:30pm) and finally I took the motorbike at 6:15pm for the 6:30pm show! Made it on the stroke of the minute, but all in vain as the show did not still till about 8pm! This was my first ever big ticket comedy show, and I didn't know what to expect - at least some sort of opening act? There was none. Even the seating was cramped and uncomfortable, with my fingers going cold from the alcohol-free beer I was sipping on as there was no arm rest on the chair, let alone a cup holder. It was pretty much a filding garden chair, and I was shoulder to shoulder with the people on either side. Bill Bailey lived up to expectations, although I must admit there were bits where his performance kinda fell flat. Few and far between, but still. Definitely not making it to the special DVD, in my opinion! Rode home in 1 degree with my summer gloves without my thermal undergloves on because I wanted to pee and also wanted to get out of Titanic quarter before the traffic leaving the parking lot clogged the road. Feels kinda irrational in retrospect! But yeah, Bill Bailey! Given a slew of bad luck that usually surrounds big ticket events I've paid fair sums of money for in the UK, I was half expecting something to go terribly wrong, (I even spent 3 quid on event insurance!) but it all went off without a hitch.