The Late Shift at DGM

21.56 The Late Shift at DGM World Central is continuing without me: David and Chris are spending their late evenings working on the DVD game. (Choose your singer / soloist and their backing band for "Schizoid Man"). This has given me time to read all my mail, which is increasing now that Web-visitors have learnt that I actually read my mail; and telephone Trey Gunn to discuss "The Repercussions of Angelic Behaviour" (Rieflin, Fripp & Gunn), ProjeKct Four, and projeKCt. Or PROJEkcT, if you wish to spell it that way. T. Lev. is also the recipient of that visceral irritant, a ringing telephone. We discuss a polemical suggestion by me for his "Beyond The Bass Clef": there is an important subject which needs to be discussed, and advice given from the experienced traveller to the younger. But who has the courage for this particular subject?

Then, via the basement of Andy's record shop and the acquisition of four budget CDs, I have returned home to pears so tasty and ripe that they have begun falling from the cottage espaliers. Beaton mounted my leg, as is his habit when he requires a soft, juicy dried apricot. The air is autumnal, rich with a soft regret for Summer's end, and the sky's clear light blue matching the crispness of the breeze.

Four nights of ProjeKct One mixes await my attention; as do final choices of ProjeKt Two mixes. But now at 23.40 my desk continues to present me with a pile of paper which seems to grow as I deal with it ...