Relax, it’s okay. My domain name is safe for another year.

Apparently it was getting a little close to the date when it would all be handed over to the rest of the world for anyone to swipe, so the major nations of the world started sending their diplomats to talk to me about it. They’ve even been shutting down Sydney. I’m a little embarrassed. All this hoo-har just over my own little forgetful brain. I hope I didn’t cause anyone any inconvenience.

It’s okay now, though, you can all go home.

The middle weekend of the show is always rough when you’re performing four shows, and this was no different. Particularly because I headed out after the Sunday matinee and didn’t get home till 1am, and am still sporting the sore throat routine.

Then tonight I did a bad thing. At around 8pm I was feeling particularly dodgy so I ended up crashing on my bed. About twenty minutes later I decided that I was going to call it a day and got under the doona. Soon after I was in that blissful land of sleep. I later started to wake up and eventually decided to check what time it was. I was hoping something like 6 or 7am. It was only 11.30pm. I’m afraid my body thought it was only a nap. When I woke I felt quite refreshed and alert.

It felt like the middle of the night (and I guess it was), but it was still a few hours before my usual bedtime so the usual clan was on MSN and still Doing Things‚Ñ¢. I was able to get an advert done for tomorrow, so my intermission (as Adam called it) was at least productive.

Now back to the second half of the show.

Don’t let anyone tell you playing the piano can’t be violent.

At the end of each show of almost two full hours of piano playing, every single vein in my hand has popped out as far as it can go. Even strange veins that stretch between my index finger and my thumb. After a while they recede, but until then it’s like I’m mid-transformation into The Hulk.

My hands are aching and I have some glissando induced injuries. For those not in the know, a glissando is when you run your finger up or down the keyboard hitting either all the white or all the black notes. One early gliss today was rather brutal and it felt like I caught a chunk of skin on the side of a particularly rough key, which is odd because that part of my finger is calloused up from umpteen prior “glissters”. I also have a patch of blood that is emerging near my index fingernail due to my upward gliss action. It’s quite sore so I only played downward glissandi tonight.

Apart from bruised and bloodied hands, I’ve developed a sore throat, but that’s hardly a surprise given the weather and my current patterns. One more show tomorrow, then my real weekend starts (my weekend is now Monday/Tuesday given that I work or “work” every other day).