A concert experience

 Recently we went to a concert, and we haven’t been to one for a few years given the Pandemic and everything else. This time we decided to go and have an evening where we could forget about work and just spend the time together and enjoy the evening. The concert was to start at 8 pm, which was a reasonable time given it was during the week and people do work.

We arrived at the venue a little early as we checked and saw that the doors would open at 7 pm, which seemed reasonable for a concert hall. We arrived around 6:40 as traffic wasn’t as bad as we thought it could be and also, we grabbed a quicker dinner so that gave us time to not stress about a lot of things that could go wrong. When we arrived, there are quite a few people already waiting so we figured that the doors would be locked and of course they were. With this being early yes testing the door given no one was standing near the doors it was worth checking. Now this is when the fun starts to begin. More and more people start arriving, and this area is starting to get a little more crowded, and it was amazing how many people would immediately walk by everyone else that was standing in this area to check the door and pull on it multiple times. If a door didn’t open when I first tried it, I would assume that it was locked, but no people would pull on the door three or four times trying to get it to open.

Once the doors open which was yes at 7 pm it was time to go into the venue and for anyone with a bag, it was checking what they had in their bag, but it was a quick check and then off to get the tickets scanned and head towards the area where our seats were. It didn’t take us long to find where our section was, and we didn’t need a lot of assistance to find out where they were as we were looking at the different signs.

We spend a bit of time walking around, and they announced that doors would open to the auditorium at 7:30 so that gave us time to relax. We decided to have a glass of wine while waiting for the doors to open. It was fun doing some people watching because some people were shocked that they couldn’t immediately go to their seats once they got their tickets scanned.

The overall concert was wonderful, and we both enjoyed it a lot. The one thing that I would have to say that might have been a bit of an issue was the number of washrooms that their venue had to offer. The washrooms were only in the back centre of the venue and from what I found there were only two sets of washrooms. For a venue that has a capacity of 2,630 people, that doesn’t seem like a lot of washrooms. The other issue that we did find that there were lots of stairs getting to the various sections, so if you have issues with stairs, check with the venue before you purchase our tickets.

The overall concert experience was wonderful, and we both enjoyed our evening doing something a little different. So, if you are going to a concert, and you arrive early, and you see lots of people standing near an entrance there is a good chance that the doors are locked so just wait patiently and you will get in.

 

 

Memberships on YouTube

Recently there has been a discussion on the YouTube channel about membership and why a gift membership could not be sent to a specific person. It was getting to the point that I was about to yell because they didn’t understand what we were trying to explain to them.

This channel has a membership of $5 a month and that provides the streams from multiple locations and the chat. The chat and special membership videos are the benefits for paying the monthly fee. Of course, when the membership starts the chat was open to everyone, but then it becomes a lot harder to manage, so now the main changes that are viewed have the chat normally set to “Chat as a member”. As a result of this change, there are people that were normally chatting that are no longer chatting because they don’t have a membership.

I understand that people may not be able to afford the $5 a month, and they might not want to pay that money because of their views. I think it is up to the individual if they become a member or not. There is also the option that you can change your own settings to accept gifts. If you have this set, you may randomly receive a membership.

The discussion got to the point that this one person was complaining and wasn’t listening that the random membership is a YouTube thing and not how the channel set it up. This individual wanted to gift a membership to a specific person and not to a pool. Why should one individual get a membership gifted to them when the rest of us are paying for our own. I understand that the person that she wanted to gift a membership was normally chatting but why single someone out for a membership.

So, for now, if you are a viewer of a channel that has membership, and you want to gift a membership it will go into a pool and those that have their settings to accept gifts may get your gift.

Too many t-shirts

When you go to conferences, especially those with vendors and a vendor area, you will discover that one of the items that are given away will be t-shirts. Of course, these t-shirts are going to be advertising the company that you got it from but for some people, it’s free, so I need to have it.

Yes, what is interesting is seeing how many t-shirts you can get at a single conference, because you could possibly come home from a two-day even with enough t-shirts to last you for over a week and that is wearing each t-shirt for only one day. T-shirts are also interesting because there are so many different qualities of shirts. We have received t-shirts at conferences that are nice, and you want to wear them quite a bit and then there are the t-shirts that you wear a couple of times and then they either stretch out of shape or wholes start to appear.

For us, we don’t get a lot of the t-shirts that are being given out because over the wears we have got quite a few, and we will only wear t-shirts that apply to what we do for our business. We have been to some events, and you can watch some attendees just grab all the different t-shirts because it means that they don’t have to purchase as many t-shirts to wear in the summer months.

Yes, t-shirts do some in handy and have those t-shirts that you can wear when you are working around the house and don’t want to ruin a good t-shirt are nice. I have received t-shirts that I could wear as a night shirt because they are either extra-large or even extra-extra-large and given, I only wear a medium t-shirt they are extremely large on me. We will talk to the vendors that we want to talk to and if they happen to have a t-shirt that we think we might wear, we will accept it, but we will not stop at a vendor for no reasons besides just getting the t-shirt.  I have too many t-shirts, and I need to ensure that I only have enough t-shirts that will fit in one section of my dresser.

T-shirts are ok, as a giveaway but remember you don’t need every t-shirt from every vendor that is at each show because you are going to be seeing these same vendors at multiple shows through the year. Yes, I will wear some vendor t-shirts but we both don’t need any more t-shirts so it’s time to go through those shirts and maybe say goodbye to some of those older shirts.

Welcome to 2024

It’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone. The year on the calendar has changed, but other than that not much else as changed in the world. For me, I am now going to see if I can continue to get my blogs written on a regular basis, as that does make me happy. My blogs are a means of sharing some of the things that I like and that bother me.

This coming year, I hope that I can try and do some more education on the things that I enjoy. I hope to be able to write some more blogs around my hobbies, as well as travels and career things that are important to me. I know that I have a long list of blogs that I would like to write, so I just need to ensure that I can continue to get them written and share them with you.

The fun part about my blog is I don’t have a set list of blogs that I am going to write in a certain order. I write the blog that I feel like writing, and I then schedule it and maybe reschedule something else. My blogs can happen at various times and sometimes a few are written in a day or two and other times it can take me a while to get even one blog written.

I hope that you will enjoy what I am going to be writing about in 2024. My list of ideas is long, and it keeps changing based on everything that is going on around me. So, now that the calendar is changed, and we have started a new year, I hope to get lots of blogs written and posted.

Wrapping up 2023

Here I sit, and I am looking back over this year and seeing that I have been able to get back to doing more writing for my blog. It is something that I missed doing for a couple of years and now to see what 2024 is like. My blog is my way of expressing myself and things that I like and writing about things that have bothered me.

This year I have been able to spend some time working on writing about several different topics, but all these topics are things that I write about and enjoy doing that writing. As I sit and look back at the different things that I have written about, I feel lucky. I am lucky that I can sit and write about all these different things and share them the way that I do.

As I sit here and think through what has happened during this year, I can say that I am happy, and I am looking forward to seeing what is around the corner in 2024. Not everything that happened this past year has been happy, but we have been able to get through each thing and know that each day is a new day. I hope that I can continue to write my blog and continue to have fun writing about some of the silly things that have happened.

I hope everyone has a good holiday season if you do celebrate, and I look forward to continuing to get more blogs written in 2024.