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Monday 25th May 2015

Monday 25th May 2015

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I have an awful lot to get done in the next few months, not least of which creating prize T shirts and drawing around my hand about 1000 times to reward all you kind people who gave to the RHLSTP kickstarter. But also, maybe more importantly I have to learn 11 shows (though think I know Lord of the Dance Settee) and write a new one and get a sitcom script together. This time last year I coped with a workload that was possibly even heavier, but now I have a tiny human being waking me up at 5.30 and wanting to be entertained and fed. And damn it, I love doing that and so like a fool I give into her demands and then I am tired.
I thought today that I might make a tiny dent in the workload and get my exercise regime back on track, but even though I only had to look after my daughter in the morning, all I got done in the afternoon was to beat my high score on Addams Family Pinball. Which is important obviously, but I doubt I can make a living at it. Except for my next tour show based solely on observational comedy about Addams Family pinball, with maybe a second half where the audience watch me play it on a big screen. 
I got my running kit on ready to do some exercise, all apart from one of my trainers, and was gearing myself up to do the full 6.75mile run. But then Phoebe and Catie came home and I gave Phoebe a bit of a cuddle and we played a bit and then suddenly I was extremely tired and unable to do anything. I am not saying that the baby thrives by sucking the life force out of me, but I think I look a lot greyer than I did back in February and I am certainly a lot less fit.
Worth it though.
I have been overwhelmed by work many times before and been through periods where I’ve got a lot less done, for not as good a reason. But really hoping I can pull myself together and manage fatherly, work and exercise duties properly from now on. I have managed to waste a bit of time putting together a joke 1 million pound Me1 vs Me2 kickstarter campaign, that I will almost certainly never make live and which will definitely not make a million pounds even if I do. Because I am an idiot. And like to think that life is art and that all good art is snooker based. And that in the future all comedy shows will be observations about 1990s pinball machines.
Oh yeah and life without the internet (apart from on my phone) really sucks. How did I get through all those years without it? I feel like I am taking part in one of those TV shows where they make you live in the past. And they are making it doubly meta by showing us what a TV show about that would have been like if cameras weren't invented yet.

Thanks very much to the person who gave me this T shirt for Phoebe with a fun fan-based in-joke. As you can see she is delighted to be wearing it.


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