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By this time tomorrow, my gear should be packed up and Justin and I will be finishing dinner with Dave before we go to the airport.

Sunday night I was rereading Christoffer’s notes on the piece whose piano part I’d been practicing. He had an idea of adding a processed spoken-word part. Hmm. I hadn’t thought much about that. What words? Would they be English? Suddenly a word popped into my head ("dreaming”) and I remembered a jam that Pat, Chisa and I had done in early 2003 where Chisa whispers that word and others. I thought sleep was imminent so I sent off an email to her asking if it would be okay to use that. I compulsively devoured the speculation about the (then-rumored) Apple/Intel announcement for a bit, got tired of that and went and found the tracks from the jam. Not only did were there 3 flavors of “dreaming” to choose from, but she speaks one of the words in the title of the song. A couple hours later I had about maybe ten short phrases arranged to say something that felt pertinent to the song. With some backwards reverb :-)

Then I was too riled up to sleep. Admired what I’d done with the voice parts for awhile. Went to 5:30 am meditation at the Zen center. Read more Apple/Intel speculation. Went to work at 9, watched Steve’s keynote at 10, watched the stunned reactions when he revealed that the Tiger demo he’d just given was running on a Pentium. Laughed when the building I was sitting in was identified as the location of the previously-clandestine project.

Had lunch with Justin and a longtime former Opcode coworker who’s going to start the PR wheels turning for my album. Ate enthusiastically, happy that they were going to take care of the weird world of marketing and I only had to be prepared to take my songs apart and put them back together again starting on Friday morning in Sweden.

Went home at 6:30 and fell asleep until 1:30 am. Ha, I was already jetlagged to hell and on Swedish time.

The morning flew by. I don’t remember accomplishing much beyond moving a couple of devices into a soft rack that I’ll maneuver into some other piece of luggage tomorrow.

Ventured to the Great Mall in Milpitas and managed to park perhaps as far as possible from the shoe store Google had pointed me to. It felt like a half mile each way. Fine, I can use the exercise and getting used to the new shoes. From there I drove to San Francisco to attend my coworkers’ WWDC talks. They asked about my trip and as I heard myself answering, I realized how excited and happy I was. Justin called during the break between sessions (yes, I’ve seen that in Malmo, lows are in the 40's, highs in the lower 60's so I am bringing warm clothes). I told him, I’m walking around with a smile on my face as if I were in love.

Just caught V online—she has several layers of guitar parts done for one song, just a few more to go. I made a list yesterday and counted 10 people who will probably have performance credits on the album. Maybe even more than being excited by the trip, that’s a big part of why I’m smiling today: this thing that started as a bunch of fooling around with synthesizers in headphones is taking on a life of its own, becoming something bigger than I ever could have imagined alone.

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