Up early – ish, not really, after all the mornings we’ve had this week. I had a sesh at 10 AM with Arktik Lake Tony in Australia, plotting, and although I usually consider that early, staying in bed till 9.20 AM was an absolute luxury. I didn’t consider going back to bed afterwards because the tentacles of disarray were creeping around in every room and I had to chop at them to keep them away. So next week’s sesh will be an hour later because our clocks change and the week after that two hours later as the clocks in NSW change. Sesh at noon instead of 10 AM, yes, please.
After she had finished the shelfbuilding, Sarah began to tackle the CDs, a fiddly job as some titles had slipped into the wrong place in the alphabet because they were on the top layer. Others were quite mixed up and it made me realise that we didn’t have too much time in Penzance to sort everything out, and after 15 years of being in that location, it was quite a task to get everything out of there in time. I also discovered that a couple of boxes weren’t labelled properly, which is a bit of a problem if you come to ‘C’ in the alphabet and there are no CDs by The Cure or Curve because ‘Cu’ is missing somewhere or mislabelled.
Olivia was running around doing all kinds of different things as was I, trying to get as straight as possible and as prepared as possible because late tonight, actually 5.30 AM Monday morning, the first pallet, the proper collection, is coming. It’s just too late to wait up for and too early to go to bed and wake up for, haha.
It’s been warm with the Saharan dust, but now they say that it’s going to rain for two weeks. We have to be careful to not have the burly men expose the boxes to the elements, one dead box is enough. So as the rain is coming later in the day I’m going to have a conversation with them to tell them to make sure that nothing gets wet in loading and unloading in the next two visits, crucial.
I finally found the lead that connected my speakers to the computer. I’d spent all week looking for this white-labelled lead only to discover that it absolutely was labelled, but it was black. I just kept on missing it, thinking I was looking for something white and not paying attention to something black, there must be a lesson in there somewhere. I still don’t have the luxury of the stereo yet but at least I’m not listening through computer speakers.
Music today has been the John Coltrane Quartet – Ballads (1963). Jazz buffs will know it featured Coltrane, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums and Reggie Workman on bass on one track. All but one song were recorded in one take. The band didn’t know the songs, they looked at the music, discussed the songs, worked out what changes they would make to the sheet music and laid down the tracks.