Comedy, coughing, a bug and a bit of boredom kept me away from myLot

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I've been on here very little since early April. There were a number of reasons for this. Firstly, I recently made a return to stand-up comedy and had my first spot for a very long time booked for 10 April. I spent time writing, editing and rehearsing my set for London. Although I didn't progress beyond my heat of the competition, I was delighted with the experience and response. I saw comedians who gig regularly get very little back from.the audience, whereas I got laughs. Afterwards a number of seasoned pros, including the compere, were very complimentary. Since then much of my focus has been on progressing further with this. Later in April I caught a cough which went on for weeks and laid me pretty low. It wasn't flu (I had a flu jab for the first time ever in January) but it made me pretty sluggish and I didn't feel like doing much once work and chores were completed. Then there was a different type of bug, the infuriating 'Aw snap!' that keeps coming up on Chrome and crashing pages, including every time I tried to log in here. It may be easy to fix on many devices but not on the Nook that I use to post here. In the end I installed Firefox. It seems slower and harder to edit but at least it lets me on here. And lastly, although I have never been the most prolific poster here, I must admit that I was getting a bit bored with it (sorry!) But having spent time away means that I come back here refreshed and can cherry-pick from weeks of members' discussions to respond to. (The fact that I was about 80% towards my next payout also helps!) What keeps you away from here? And what has been the biggest event for you over the past couple of months?