2) creation

• (last few days) notebook entries and return to illustrating.  re-photographing of area captured before but found to be too dim and low contrast once worked through initially in editing and preparing for insertion into ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...
• (today) fascinated by  http://firstsounds.org/ 

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last few days) creation of two new files that are digital versions of notebook entries so pieces may marinate some time before placement into lengthy repositories.  dream transcribed through Dragon.  back-up of laptop to external hard drive - competition of the major transfer of writings and images from music studio to portable studio.

1) identification, 2) creation

• (yesterday) treatment and editing of many photo images.  for several weeks listening to This American Life on app while working on laptop studio and finally hearing years of programming i had only occasionally heard radio broadcast.

2) creation

• (today) working with raw photos so when placing in ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... I will be able to pull each and use it without stopping the alignment and editing of rows in progress.  tracked dream.

2) creation

• (last few days) writing dreams, attempting to bypass notebook and type directly into word processor - but I enjoy the act of writing, the letter formations, the smear/slide from letter to letter wicking the ink along with metal tip, the absorption of ink partially into the paper fibers. 

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (today) migration and condensing of images and videos to laptop.  secretly tracking contentious meeting of special education specialists, two of whom have constricted a reality that they are looking to verify, protect, and act from though I consistently dismantle large sections while they try to move about inside.  clarity of thought and accuracy benefit me.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last few days) migrating photos from portable storage devices, computers, cameras, etc. - continuation of efforts to make laptop primary artifact repository and work station.  tracking several sounds using iphone.  

2) creation

• (last few days) transcribing notebook entries to word documents.  guitar and amp officially lost to pawn store, kind enough to call and remind me past due and I have to pass.

2) creation

• (last two days) some momentum found in moving all writing and visual artifacts to new laptop, leaving basement computer for sound studio.  found iphone app for Dragon voice recognition software and using it to transcribe notebook entries, then e-mailed to laptop, copy/paste into word document, and edited.  seemingly tedious, but my keyboarding skills, as well as looking at pages of writing while typing, is not as fast.  self-admonishment to stop writing in notebook and type material initially, especially pages of long dreams.

2) creation

• (last few days) recorded Ian dream and how he avoids dreaming.  transcription of journal entries into computer.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last few weeks) notebook entries, Kelli purchased new laptop - transfer of all writings, images, and artifacts to it - leaving basement computer solely for sound studio.  loss of baby through miscarriage - oval locket for ashes - these artifacts I do not want. 

2) creation

• (last night) hours of editing and correcting transcribed dreams from voice recognition software.  some hints of the old Burroughs' methods of random word replacement and new meaning to be teased out. 

2) creation

• (last few days) editing last 10 page span of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 11, now the first chapter of book two.  changed the opening quote to a three paragraph excerpt from Sam Harris, The End of Faith.  typing out 5 years of daydreams or so on 1980s electric typewriter - the physical motions and writing happening right then are made apparent and manifest.  such intensity to hear the motors and belts running to transmit the key-types into inked letters on the page. 

1) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last week) chapter 11 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... nearly done in a 5 day span when the toil of laying down rows spun back to the structural patterning and dense meaning to placement of images, alignments, and material used.  these are the ideal momentum-filled hours each night, staying just ahead of the associations, allowing the pages and rows to suggest adjacent artifacts.  switching out the quote for the chapter as now that book 1 and book 2 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... are combined into one book, 400 pages, chapter 11 is crucial to set up the next 10 chapters, the arc of 400 or so pages.  used the long excerpt from The End of Faith by Sam Harris.  
• backing up all work, including sound files to external hard drive and then work computer.  decision to let Gibson guitar go as paying the $520 to retrieve it from pawn exasperates the frustration of having floated the loan for 4 or 5 months at $40 each time.  simply too much money to reacquire - I can buy all of the boys' christmas presents for less - the weighing out immediately make the decision.

1) creation

• (last few days) several productive hours on ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 11.  six months of no progress, a series of images stopping up the momentum until a few nights ago and an elaborate referencing of patterns, placement and sizing condensed five pages to three and immediately through, on to ten pages of two rows, all coming into alignment.  euphoric.

1) creation

• (last few days) tracking high level damage control meeting within school district - primarily for protection against shit-storms that may take shape regardless of me but might still stain me in the tossing off.  
• days to fix website www.timcoalman.com as somewhere in process of updating link to bandcamp page and fixing off-set link fields, saving as web page, transferring to flash drive, uploading through ftp - the main page acquired an "official_website" page name instead of the "index" label that had been there in the past.  this effectively substituted the page name and left all links and loading of page at error messages.  finally noticed the change and had to backtrack through previous versions of website stored on computer to find what had been changed.

2) creation, 3) community, 4) housekeeping

• (last few days) reconnection with Naquin, short talk but the recurring lament for intersecting times.  substantial work-up of bandcamp page, http://timcoalman.bandcamp.com/, and thrill to discover uploading of .wav files is supported at higher than cd rates of 16 bit and 44.1 kHz - so hours to save ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book 1 soundtrack pieces at rates that equal the quality they are tracked and mixed in.  
• updating of www.timcoalman.com so "soundtrack" link connects to bandcamp page.
• tracked one of Ian's dreams - first telling, instead of having him repeat.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last few weeks) on-going organization and de-weeding of sound files.  several pieces nearing completion for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book soundtrack and sorting clips of the boys into years as well as sample rates.  various notebook entries.  decision also made to combine book 1 and 2 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... into one volume, approximately 400 pages; the 200 pages per book attributable to early coveting of multi-book series instead of one or few phonebook installments - Pirsig would be disappointed.

2) creation, 3) community, 4) housekeeping

• (last few weeks) substantial progress on organization of all music, including last few pieces for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book soundtrack.  hundreds of tracks reevaluated for potential, at least half deleted, others reworked and filed away in categories for future use.  notebook entries.  found dictation software I'd used in studio (dragon) now available as free app. for iphone.  tracking a few sounds and discovering several sound design websites (my favorite -  http://socialsounddesign.com/) that are as relevant to the way I form musical pieces as the community on tape op message board http://messageboard.tapeop.com/.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• (last few weeks) tracking sound artifacts and dreams.  working on book soundtrack to ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and evaluating/sorting all sound files for workflow - categories now include 1) sound artifacts, 2) timcoalman sound (book soundtrack), 3) pre-commissioned, 4) conversations, 5) Teeple (archival of his work done together or shared with me), and 6) family (primarily the boys' dreams and stories).