I'm a tool...

Had a couple bar shows the last few nights. Thursday was at a dive bar that has a pretty good stage area and could fit a lot of people if needed. I got booked a little while back to co headline the event. I basically told the gal I would have trouble promoting it as it was so close to other shows I'm doing. There was a dude on the show that I've met before, nice guy but does 3 jokes that are almost word for word what I do. I truly don't believe he stole them purposely at least but it is pretty crazy. He went before me so clearly I couldn't do those jokes. I was booked to do 15 minutes. I started off with some impromptu crowd work that went crappy. There was maybe 10 people sitting near the stage that was way overly lit. There needs to be some kind of happy medium with how bright the lights are. I got lit what seemed to be somewhat early. I asked the gal and she said I did the full 15 but wasn't sure. She checked the tape and I actually did 15. I wasn't mad if she did light me early I just felt it went quick. Not all my jokes hit hard but I had a steady rhythm. I did a lot of different jokes. It was cool to do 15 minutes out front of a small crowd and feel it went fast. Some gal came up to me after to tell me they were in the back and enjoyed it. I overheard the bouncer asking for the dudes info that does a lot of my jokes, not sure he wants to book him again, god I'd hope not.

Well yesterday during the day I found a way to lose the entire 400$ I won online from a few nights before. I didn't play bad I was simply extremely unlucky. Time and time again. It reminded me why I stopped playing online. As much as I don't want to question it as these sites make billions of dollars, it's crazy to think I deposit money one night and got pretty lucky, then a few days later getso rediculously unlucky and lose it all back. I stopped and will withdraw the rest and not play online for at least another 3 months.

Winston's show was slow as expected. The headliner was a local guy but I knew he wouldn't promote. One of the guys I had promote didn't at, neither did the gay. The crowd was small but did listen which is nice. I didn't havea chance to do a full set as the dude behind went long and we were over time again. I wasn't too worried other than the factsome dude came up to me to ask if I was going up. I had no idea who he was, but he was sitting with a lady. Maybe one of my friends told him to come see the show, who knows. They left without saying another. I'm still curious who that was and probably should have did a little more time, but sadly I really don't care about stage time. Well that is all for now, all night of poker at the casino tonight and show tomorrow, hopefully there's good things to report.