Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 21 April 2005

Yesterday, around 11am, as I was gearing up for trip to interview the Man, I get call, saying it's pushed off and I can meet the Alter Ego instead today, with promises of the Man tomorrow.

I meet and interview the Alter Ego, and he's very good, so that's cool. Plus I get to work the digital recorder (stereo capture) and it's fantastic. Download to Mac and send in chunks to Esquire overnight by email.

Meanwhile, plugging on notes til 2 am this morning.

Up at 0800 and back on notes til noon. Then, as scheduled, head to The Building and it goes down as promised. Biggest damn office I've ever seen--about the layout of my house's first floor, and we've got a LOT of room. Great interview. Going to be great piece. Will write it early next week.

This weekend: remembering my kids' names.

Oh, and notes now under 60 to go, with about . . . I dunno, mabye 350-400 done. Total volume over 20k words. Think it will weigh in just under 25k.