Today I am suffering the consequences of an early start and a long day yesterday. We had a reasonably early night, and my sleep (cannabis assisted) was fairly disturbance free, but today I am feeling completely wiped out – my tremor is breaking through quite strongly on both sides, the dystonia in my right foot is pretty uncomfortable and my voice (which got extremely weak towards the end of the day yesterday) is soft and hoarse.
Still, I have a vlog to script, film, edit and publish! I have decided to vlog about the ongoing campaign to legalise medicinal cannabis, since much of this week has revolved around it.
My wife goes off to work, and I take the dog for an early walk, hoping that she will then settle down quietly and leave me to get on with stuff. The dog does settle down. I work on the script for an hour or two, and load it into the teleprompter app on my iPad. Then the fun begins! I try (and try) to film myself, but I am totally useless in front of the camera today. My voice keeps letting me down – strangling my sentences, and breaking up. I should be getting pretty good at vlogging by now, but if I had 1 take, I had 20 (at least). I pick the least bad footage, load it onto my MacBook and get cracking with the editing.
Tremor in my arms is a bit of a hindrance, but I edit the vlog fairly quickly (all things considered), get it uploaded to my YouTube Channel and publish it.
My wife and I are going to dinner tonight at her eldest son’s house, so we head off over to Hevingham for the evening as soon as my wife returns from work – it’s St Patrick’s day, so I expect I’ll crack open a Guinness (or two).