Last night I went with a very tired Dave to see ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ being performed at the school I work at. It was actually very funny with some excellent performances. Dave was seriously freaking out though because he hasn’t slept much recently.

The school I work at is the same school that Dave used to attend as a student. During the interval he bumped into a few teachers that he remembered. Now for those of you who don’t know, Dave is a twin - and unfortunately for him, they all remembered him as his twin brother, Chris.

Dave was not happy, although fortunately his tiredness prevented him from having the energy to be angry or pissed off.

I’m pretty tired myself today. It seems as though the more time goes on, the less chance I get to catch up on my sleep. I’ve also been waking up in the most peculiar way recently. The last few mornings I’ve woken up as a weatherman!

Let me explain. My bed is essentially two matresses, one on top of the other, which lie directly on the floor. So in essence, I don’t actually have a bed but rather two matresses. This being the case, I’m actually very low to the floor.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my alarm clock is an old phone and it lies next to my matresses. When I’m lying in my bed I hit the snooze button by raising my arm out and pressing the button. So far, nothing seems wrong there.

Except, when I’m asleep I don’t realise I’m lying down. I am, in fact, standing up. When the alarm goes off, I realise there’s a storm coming and I indicate to all the viewers at home where the location of the storm is by moving my arm into the general direction against the bluescreen behind me. So, as I said, I wake up each morning as a weatherman. As for what I’ve been dreaming about the last few nights I’m not too sure, which is probably a safer option for me and a relief for you to not have to experience yet another one of my dreams.

However my tired state does seem to have me on edge today. Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I have this dodgy suspicion that a plane is going to crash land on the school and from the wreckage a giant goldfish will emmerge and demand our everlasting loyalty. And considering that yesterday, as I was driving to work, I had an odd feeling and thought to myself “it would be weird if a cop drove past right now” - only to drive around the corner and have a police car drive past - I think that my 6th sense may be correct. I don’t want to be enslaved by a race of goldfish - especially ones that don’t know how to fly a plane properly!

Then again, it might just be my tummy telling me I want food.

OMG - I went into Tesco the other day and saw what must be 300 easter eggs! Added to this shock was the torture I underwent knowing that I’ve given up chocolate for lent, thus restricting my ability to saviour one of the 300 easter eggs there. After telling my friend about it on the phone, I turned to my right to see what I can only describe as ANOTHER 300 easter eggs. Seriously, they must have easily over half a thousand in-store, if not more!

I’d love it if those easter eggs were all full of chickens. And then, at the appointed hour, an army of killer chickens could break free from their cardboard cages and slaughter all those that fired me all those years ago (yes I still hold a grudge for a job I didn’t even like). I think I’m just bitter because I re-read the very first few posts of this site over at http://archive.thechoad.com and it brought back how annoyed I was that they ruinied Christmas.

In fact, I’ve been thinking a lot about how this site started. Like for instance how it was originally just me trying to keep a diary of how stupidly clumsy I can be at times so that I could look back and see for myself. I’ve never been good at writing diaries but the concept of blogging just made it so much simpler - especially as I can type far faster than I can write by hand. After people started reading it and saying they found it funny, that’s when I decided to redo the site from scratch and have it as you see it now.

Then I had plans to do comics which hasn’t really happened. It will do eventually but it will be a while before I get the chance - plus I could really do with getting a graphics tablet to simplify the process (scanning in hand-drawn sketches only to redraw over them just becomes a pain in the ass).

As time went on the idea of podcasting came into my head for some reason and after a very rocky first episode, ‘The Choad Show’ was born! I would now like to make an official announcement - not one that’s kind of “this is what we’d like” but rather “this is our goal and what we are going to do”;

The Choad Show is evolving.

As I’ve stated before, we’re working on scripts for some sketches to feature in some episodes (something we planned in the first season but didn’t really get a chance to do) and we’ve got a couple more bands interested in having their music featured.

Whilst all that is old news, one thing I’m announcing is that I’ve decided to put some money into The Choad Show. The site itself is all non-profit and comes out of my own pocket - but so far the spending is just on the domain name and hosting. Soon I will be putting money towards increasing the sound quality of the show to make it sound more professional, as well as (later down the line) opening an online store with various choadtastic items such as clothing, mugs, etc (we already have a load of ideas for them).

Obviously to do so isn’t going to be cheap. I want to avoid using banner advertising (as I’ve never liked it and unlike most websites these days, I would like TheChoad.com to remain banner-free for as long as is feasibly possible), so what I might be considering soon is a paypal donation scheme. I’m not going to do so until Season 2 has started (as I don’t think that would be fair) but if I do and you feel like you’d like to donate then all proceeds will go towards the running of the site and The Choad Show. I’ll also see if I can come up with some special reward of some sort for those who donate to make it worth your while.

Before the show started, Dave and I were just that, Dave and I. Since the show started, it’s become a part of our lives - a thing we enjoy doing and feel compelled to do. It’s almost as though The Choad Show has taken control and we’re excited about Season 2 and almost as gutted as some of you that it hasn’t started yet - but we’re hoping that you’ll find that the wait has been worth it.

But because the show is now a part of who we are, it’s something that we’re embracing on a conscious level and I personally want to treat it as less of a hobby and more like a part-time job by putting a lot more of my time and energy into it.

This is probably the last I’ll mention of this change for a while, but I just want to re-assure you that whilst it doesn’t seem like much is going on, there’s actually so much going on which is the reason Season 2 hasn’t aired yet. The site is going to get a complete overhaul for the second time and whilst I haven’t decided if I’ll keep or ditch the current look and style, it will definitely be improved under the hood and there’ll be a lot more information about The Choad Show including a proper episode guide, information on guests and featured music, as well as making it even easier to listen to the show by making it playin your browser whilst keeping the current download options available.

So basically lots of work to do using what little free time I have at the moment.

And no chocolate.

Bloody lent…

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