Seems that I was fed wrong information about what gigs I would be engineering at the Phoenix, seems that I will not be engineering the gig on my birthday, and although I would have liked to have gone to the gig anyway as a friends band is playing for the first time live. But that isn’t going to happen, well I could go as I would get in free anyway, but it will be depressing as hell not being able to drink due to cash flow issues, as in its flowing the wrong direction at the moment. Turns out that I will be doing the Saturday of that week instead, extreme metal gig, how wonderful, guess the earplugs will firmly be inserted all night long, even for the sound check. Maybe I could plug my headphones into the sound desk and listen to a CD of something I like through the ‘pre-fade monitor’ as extreme metal really isn’t my thing, but it seems to be the big thing of the moment, so the place probably will be packed! Oh well, looks like my week off will be an extremely quiet one as I have no money to spend, although it probably won’t matter as I have been feeling like death warmed up lately, and it has been getting progressively worse over the last few days, so I don’t hold out much hope for next week, although I am not surprised I always seem to pick up some bug when on holiday!!! At least I did the sensible thing [yes, I can be sensible] and bought in £60 worth of shopping instead of spending that money in the pub, at least I won’t starve until payday, which is only a week away now, but it feels like an eternity at this moment in time!