Ooo! (Blog 95)

On early Tuesday, I didn’t do anything too spectacular. I read through a script that was shared online and which would be read out in the London Comedy Writers meeting, later that day. Why did I read it, and not just wait? Well, quite frankly my aural attention span is not so good. Me reading the thing meant much less effort later. Anyway, somewhat randomly, the script was based on the character ‘Big Keith’ from the Office. However, I didn’t think too much of that fact at first. Imagine my surprise when I saw the actor who plays him at the meeting! All the audience had the treat of watching him read out his parts in his trademark deadpan voice. Excellent stuff.

That was a legit interesting story, wasn’t it? It kind of blows my ‘the person who sat next to me in the Chorts meeting sat next to me on Tuesday too’ story out of the water. So much so, that I’m not going to go into any more details about it. So let’s talk more about Keith! (Or rather ‘Keith’). I thought he was a pretty cool guy, and I kind of wanted to talk to him. However, I didn’t want him to think I was being a suck up because he was famous(ish). I also I assumed I’d never see him again, so I just thought screw it, and didn’t bother standing next to the person and winking in a friendly way or whatever. If you’re reading this, Ewan, here’s a big hello from me instead.

On Wednesday whilst I was out buying super strength mouthwash for my teeth (somewhat of an investment for someone with my sugary diet), I thought I’d get a small memory stick to backup my various writings on. When I put it into my computer the day after, I got a message saying ‘USB drive has too much power and has f***ed everything up’ or whatever. (I can’t remember the exact phrase). I then found all of my documents on my computer disappeared!! Literal horror. I restarted my computer and THANK F**K my files recovered somehow! Needless to say I’m not going to be putting the thing in my computer again, I just settled for my old USB stick to give me peace of mind.

What should I do with my evil memory stick? Maybe I could fix it to a wall with chewing gum. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, apparently there’s a bit of a trend where people do the activity just described and brave/foolish people find the devices and put them in their computer. They then discover really weird files or viruses that surprise surprise, really spoil their day. If I were to put my blank stick in a wall, I would probably cause a bit of disappointment in the receiver, unless he was like me. In that case he would experience brief mild peril.

‘Simon, is that all you’ve done over the last few days? Read a script and buy a memory stick??’ No, no. I also wrote some music reviews for that website I keep going on about. That was a fair query you had there, but it was also very negative. But I forgive you. You may later also be asking the question ‘Simon, I haven’t heard anything from you in a while again! That’s terrible! Where are you??’ Well, my plan over the next few days is to prepare my ultra blog. I’m really going to go for it, maybe over a whole week or so, altogether. My idea is to ‘review’ my favourite sitcoms and for special breathers every now and then, I will be inserting scenes from The Danger of Proverbs sequel I wrote a while ago. However, I’m not sure if I will ever finish that book, so all you’ll ever see of it will probably be in my 100th entry….. …. … .. . Until next time……. Bye!