2) creation

• (last three days) working on chapter 8 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... finding quotes for The Rear and chapter 8. cleaning up preface for the Rear. getting print of a negative. working with teeple on his music. reading The Job and Ports of Entry by Burroughs and Overqualified.

2) creation

• took several photos.

2) creation

• installed voice recognition software on main computer. collecting photographs for new section in chapter 8 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... uploaded files of teeple's music into computer.

2) creation

• (last several days) finished 3rd piece for book soundtrack. arranging pieces in chapter 8 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... working with Teeple on pieces from 4-track and tracking we did at old house. wrote dreams in notebook.

2) creation

• (in the last two days) working on chapter 8 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and writing up outline of autism workshop.

2) creation

• (during the last week) finished writing and editing of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 7. researched and bought video editing software. editing video of autism workshop. searching for Burroughs quote in The Job and My Education - can't find the one I wanted to use for the preface to the rear. recorded various sounds with zoom h4.

2) creation

• chapter 7 - nearly done. final editing.

2) creation

• (last two days) chapter 7 - nearly done, trying to move more fluidly in bringing the pieces together - goal to have 2nd book done and CD by the end of the summer.

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.