I am not feeling half as bad as I should be.

Last night was a great night. I got to the Porter House around 6:45 and got myself a drink. Managed to get a table near the door and so sat down to wait. While I was waiting I got phone calls from 4 people to say it would be after 8 before they made it and some closer to 9. So I was quite relieved when Andy walked in around 7:20 and then the rest slowly started to arrive. A lot of the usual suspects were away this weekend so no Rich, Pat or Nick out which was a shame but some others who don’t normally come out made it a long and made it a good evening.

There was some Irish trad on in the Porter House with a really decent house band and that went down really well. No rebel songs unfortunately but there was a refrain of The Fields… at the end of the night which was good. Having been on vodkas for the night and feeling stone cold sober (well somewhat) we decided to move on. I knew a little place in Soho but of course went up the wrong street to get to it. We passed by a place called 6 Degrees which was open till 1 and looked good so in we went. It was really good. They had some spanish music on live which was really excellent and ended the night nicely. Got home around 2.30 and collapsed.

Thanks to everyone who came out, I had a good night. I’m also very glad I decided to actually do something this year as it got some people into town.

To rewind a little before that, I went to see Kill Bill Volume 1 yesterday afternoon. It was way OTT with some ludicrous amounts of violence but no real plot and no snappy dialogue. So while it was good and I enjoyed it a lot, how can I not love a movie which starts with a Klingon proverb, it wasn’t up to any of Tarintino’s previous. I do have an urge now to go and watch Reservoir Dogs today. Headed into town afterwards and grabbed some dinner in Eds before wandering on to the pub.

Talked to my parents on the phone yesterday for the first time in a while. I had promised to give them a ring and bring them up to speed on the flat stuff. So today is a quiet day. I’m going to spend most of it watching stuff and then tomorrow I’m going to go and see a movie and take it easy.

Now I’m going to have some breakfast and sit on my couch watching West Wing for the afternoon.