Lovely sunny day yet I managed a fair bit of work. Think I have the Punch review complete, started the Tutti one and worked more on Octatrack. Tomorrow's meant to be rainy so I should get lots done. Apparently I had the offer of a free keyboard, wish I'd known/remembered that! Anyway eBay guy sounds genuine so hope that'll work out OK.

Great day, went to Devil's Bridge with mum and Janet, then Oojami and Phil came round. Got a song to try out some stuff on, Phil played his guitar through Space, even have a couple of hours left to work on the Punch review. Octatrack would be useful for the Turkey festival.

Mmmm busy week but making good progress after a difficult first day yesterday. Seen forum posts that suggest my recording issues aren't isolated so maybe there are minor bugs. Definitely had some inconsistencies today. Impressed though and starting to see real potential.

So what else? Meant to be going to Sheffield on Saturday to see Oojami and Dean. But I should also work, could get a lot done. Dilemma.

Reviews done, video rendering working again but not impressed with the short thing I did. Will try and do something more coherent soon to demo a few things properly. Need to get that second camera involved.

This week I'll start on Punch and Tutti and hopefully find out where Octatrack is. Oh and hopefully get the tension stuff sorted once and for all. Maybe one or two more tracks, then the edits. Be glad to see the back of those.

Good day, sunny too. Did tense_8, seems OK, redid ultimate_challenge, still not really sure about that one, especially as I seem to do this weird thing where it starts in F then switches to E.

I need to get maybe one more, a slower, more subtle one I think. Anyway, may start Tutti review tomorrow or even do more work on Punch.

Mmmm two deadlined reviews done, new track started (tense_7) and two old ones cleaned up. Signed up for bandcamp and began preparing awakenings live for it.

Cambridge was expensive this year (£15 for a fecking burger! I don't even like burgers!!) and our fave pub shut due to an EDL march. Can't seem to escape those fuckers.

Almost completed Spark review now and may start Tutti one also. Working like mad. Got 12 tension tracks to do, completed 5/6. Tidied two that needed minor tweaks last night but three that are "OK" could be hard to modify. Gotta get busy even though I am busy. Really doesn't help that Dawn keeps just dropping round and hanging around for ages. Getting old and miserable, just want the peace of my own house. Trying not to show it. Even when she still insists on bending the spines of my books back, fully aware of how much I hate her doing that.

Righty, Cambridge here we come. Meant to be sunny so I've packed accordingly. Will probably get soaked.

Space review done, Spark well under way (need to lose about 700 words though!), one new track uploaded and Synctracks website has gone live - so hopefully can start to earn some money. All in all, things looking good. Hoping Octatrack here very soon. Will it be the missing link??

Tony to fix the inverse Synthi scaling, if time. Not too worried if not, getting to rather like it although it is a mindfuck when I'm stoned.

Enjoyed Symphony at the Tower last night, perfect weather although got cold later. Some complainer on Waldorf list going on about how reviewers should also perform beta testing, then admitted he hadn't read my reviews anyway so had no idea what they contained. Sigh, the internet is full of these people.

In fact the world is starting to fill up with complainers, and worse we're starting to be ruled by fear of complainers rather than by people with imagination and direction. Still, fuck 'em, it's sunny again!

Well on with Space review, will return to Spark next week when hopefully there's an OS update. Synth-DIY coming so that's a weekend I won't have to write.