2) creation

• (today) most of chapter 7 finished, all coming together quickly after months of slow piece-by-piece.
• (yesterday) recorded more sounds from kelli's body with zoom h4.

2) creation

• (yesterday) recorded dream into small digital recorder. yet another to later be transcribed when time.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (today) backing up files. installed video editing software on laptop for workshop.
• (yesterday) tracked Teeple and band at the old house. problems with the new laptop and zoom h4 set-up, solved as soon as the others left and just Teeple to record.

2) creation

• working on ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 7.

2) creation, 3) community, 4) housekeeping

• (today) tracked teeple at old house, using empty living room. learning to use cubase on laptop w/ zoom h4. always interesting to see him work - laying down track after track with little editing or revision. I comment on his process and he says his music is "ready made." I'll spend weeks editing one track - the difference is skill level obviously.
• (last two days) installed cubase on laptop and using zoom h4 as mixer/audio interface. amazed at ease of use and appreciate items bundled together for relatively seamless operation. massive compiling of photos and video to be backed-up. primary computer (writing and music) damaged in move and now showing intermittent issues. uploaded revisions to website www.timcoalman.com, including new preface to ...fence posts rotting in the acreage....

2) creation

• (last three days) editing websites to remove address no longer used. finished new preface for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and worked on chapter 7. researching new microphone to buy. working up new piece on guitar.

2) creation

• (yesterday) editing of 3rd piece for book soundtrack.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• revised preface to the rear. marginal progress. selected cover photograph and worked up cover design.
• tightening up 3rd piece for book soundtrack.
• (yesterday) writing preface for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and the rear. both failing. frustration of expense of effort to explain instead of create.
• continuing to compile and sort artifacts from scattered sources of different sources.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last two weeks) moving to new apartment, garage sale, 15 hour days, and Bell's palsy. away from this log but some summary notes:
• revised and arranged several sections of chapter 7 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...
• editing of 3rd piece for book soundtrack.
• wrote dream in notebook.
• collected warning label from medication that warns of euphoric appreciation of life - or some such verbiage among dire warnings of suicide and organ failure.
• file management of video and photographs taken recently.

2) creation

• finished editing of oral history project. actually began to enjoy the challenge of removing unnecessary segments from long-winded pointless tracks. sick

1) identification, 2) creation

• editing oral history project. realizing the ones with nothing to say take 12 minutes to fill in all the details of a hollow life while those with something of interest only take a few minutes to get out such meat you want to hear it again.
• (yesterday) editing oral history project. sonar locked up and lost the project at one point - imported files into new project, lost only eq settings and fades. audio dropouts are more frequent.
• (during the last week) reading reprint of The Daily Adventures of Mixerman. makes me want to do something similar in the world of teaching except sure it would led to ruin and termination. and I don't want to spend time on work that complains when the good work is everywhere and could always use more time.

2) creation

• transferring oral history project segments from various sources into sonar. the last of the night was the best - a tape cassette and the sound quality made me imagine the family wrapped the tape recorder in an egyptian cotton beach towel, placed it in the garage, and then went to a far room in the house and talked at a normal volume. additional technology enhancements include a squeaky motor sound that runs throughout and the entire segment not having any right channel.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• small editing on 3rd piece for book soundtrack.
• working on ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 7
• backed up computer files.
• (during the last week) creating summer workshop for autistic students to focus on social skills and learn film/music editing.
• wrote proposal to link business in the community to students in my class.
• had students record family members for oral history project. working with challenge of transferring many formats into sonar.

2) creation

• (yesterday) bought various adapters for mini-plugs and other formats I am now dealing with in transferring audio for oral history project.
• tracked one oral history segment from micro cassette. what a horrid format.
• for the first time in a decade could listen to the few micro cassettes I have left from all those I destroyed. voices of who I was, complete feel of the shallowness and hollow heart. several times almost destroying these as well. I took such pains to kill who I was that even the thin voices coming through on the tapes is moments of life he should not have. what a fuckhead, should have done him in years earlier than the 1997 period.

2) creation

• transferring oral history segments into computer. many formats and odd combinations of adapters and plugs to get everything in.

2) creation

• editing tracks of oral history project I am doing with kids.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• working on smaller pieces for book soundtrack.
• organizing, deleting, and renaming audio tracks and projects to have better feel of what is currently done and what is being worked on.
• (yesterday) writing preface to "the rear" and uploading files from zoom h4.

2) creation

• nearly finished with 3rd pieces for book soundtrack.
• (yesterday) bought small digital recorder for situations where zoom h4 would be too much ($40 risk vs $275 risk). using with students to create oral history project similar to storycorps on npr.

2) creation

• some efforts for preface for "the rear."
• editing third piece of soundtrack for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...

2) creation

• finished all introductions for "the rear." need to write preface, then done.