I am aware that TBC stands for
‘to be confirmed’ and that it isn’t really a band name. Thank-you to the six
people who felt the need to email me to point out my ‘error’. If I hadn’t
deleted your emails straight away I would name and shame you.
When I got home from the
Rescue Rooms last night I wrote the review and saved it as ‘Dickies’. Nothing
unusual there of course, but then my mate Darren who came to the gig with me
emailed me the picture of me with the band and I saved it as ‘Dickies’. Because
one was a Word document and one was a picture, the computer didn’t give me the
usual telling off about already having something saved with the same name. I
was getting tired by this time (four pints on a weekday night didn’t help, this
was more than I have drunk on the same occasion for ages) so emailed the review
to the paper in something of a hurry. Clicking on the option in my emails to
add an attachment and being faced with a panel of options from my desktop, I
clicked on the word ‘Dickies’ and thought no more about it.
It wasn’t until I was checking
my emails on my phone while having a cigarette outside the court that I
realised I had sent the photo instead of the review. With the review on my
laptop at home I had to text Mandi and ask her to email it to the paper, which
she couldn’t do as she didn’t know my email password. I was already past the
deadline for articles to go in, and didn’t sort it out until Mandi had emailed
the document to my ‘court’ email address (you can’t access Gmail on the court’s
computer system) at lunchtime. Although I was emailed back to say that they had
finally received the review, I wasn’t sure if it would even be used.
===
My daily blog can be delivered straight to your Kindle
for 99p a month (link)
Listen to The Sunday Alternative
here
All donations received via the PayPal button above
will be used to fund creative projects such as podcasts, short films,
documentaries, comedy sketches and a whole lot more. You are under no
obligation of course, but thanks in advance if you do drop something in the
pot.
