Achieved nothing this evening.

Good progress: Synctracks like the stuff and the variation on "far away" so that's a relief. Will do some edit versions of "nonvox" and then look at starting the new stuff. Today I'll do more with Omnisphere as I was really getting into the granular parts yesterday. First priority is to unhang the iPad. Bizarrely it froze on my at 20:55 yesterday and every time I touch it all I get is the same screen flickering; won't respond to anything, can't take the battery out. Dearly hope when I connect to iTunes it will be restorable. I don't think I want one.

Pat still hardly speaking, she's starting to worry me a bit. Carrying small things on ain't good and I think this hassle at work has hit her harder than she admits. Another disciplinary meeting isn't a good sign.

Good seeing Isgar again yesterday.

Pebbles went home this morning, has been nice having a cat around. No sign of any mice at all.

iPad arrived, new phone arrived, Pat's on a downer (partly my fault), gotta learn the iPad and get it setup for Orb. Airport pickup later, not looking forward to the drive but must put on a brave face and not let it show. Feeling a bit stressed which isn't like me. Just don't seem to have any chilltime at the moment and for the forseeable future.

Cool, review and screenshots sent in. I think it's OK and balanced, took a bit of effort but happy with the results. Gonna look at Omnisphere in more detail today and consider the iPad thing. If a new one is due, can I get an older one cheaper?

May also try and polish those two shorter reviews in case a deadline appears. Actually, should try and get some of those tracks moving. Jeez I'm shite at multitasking! Tasking, even.

More coffee. That'll sort it. Wednesday already. The sand never stops pouring.

Good day. Apple are lending me an iPad, which is excellent news. I ploughed on with the edits, more tomorrow but I also did a "nonvox" version of Far Away, adding piano to replicate the melody of the voice, ish. Some of the edits are proving difficult but the weird ones, at least, are easy. In the evening I had a good Cirklon session, new OS adds a few small but important enhancements. May get Tony A to fit new screen cos of my flicker. Have a few reasonable tunes for the gig I think, now considering having Cirklon do the patch and volume changes of the two synths I'm gonna be playing. It would make quite a lot of sense as stumbling around looking for patches when there's just me juggling plates already is prone to too much wackiness. Good discipline to get into.

Phew, airport trip is to Liverpool not Manchester. But have acquired a second trip on Tuesday. How to tell my friends I'm not actually just hanging around the house all the time but working, pretty much all the time? Reviews and music to do, gig prep will have to wait. Latest review done, will send in morning after final read. Then it's Omnisphere 1.5 (can I borrow an iPad?) and also get those masters to Synctracks. When will I get chance to write some "science/technology" tracks? No idea.

I should stop saying yes. Seem to be living Leaf By Niggle and hope I ain't got a journey any time soon. When will I get time to go get the Synthi? Again, no idea.

Funny old day. An Ikea trek to get a chair that didn't look how the shop version did. Of course we didn't discover that until I put it up. So I took it apart and it goes back tomorrow.

Managed to get a good chunk of the review done. Should get the polish on it tomorrow ready for deadline Wednesday. Might even get a look at Omnisphere and perhaps start some of those edits for Synctracks. Can at least upload some of the main 24 bit files. And ponder iPads.

A bit bog-eyed now, that's it for the day I think.

Musta been busy or something. Well, pressing on with review and hope to have something decent by the end of tonight. Last night I got a fair bit of the donkey work done, didn't do much else though.

Got my first draft done, it's getting there. Taking a break now. Tomorrow night I'll polish leaving Tuesday night to do the final licks and checks. New Ck OS changes from 17% to 41% free. Groovy.