Dateline: above the sold garage, 27 May 2005, 50 days to the move

Two great phonecons today: one with Don Beck's "spiral dynamics" center down in Dallas (a guest virtual appearance at a workshop of his) and a second with Steve DeAngelis of Enterra, a man who's my virtual clone from the world of information technology. I look forward to someday finishing his sentences.

It's amazing how little my work day has changed since I left the college. The big difference now is that instead of staff meetings, I pick up my kids at school.

Day lost to organizing and filing hard copies of endnotes on BFA. Got stacks and stacks of papers in many piles on the ping-pong table in the basement. Slice articles with one of those neat boards with a chopper on the end, staple them together, 3-hole punch and then place in order in 3-inch binders, one per chapter. 452 notes, average 2-3 cites per, means well over 1000 separate articles, I'm guessing. Not sure I'll ever bother to count them.

Here's the daily catch:

■ Axis of Evil: two very different takes

■ China's "moving" all right

■ History catches up to some musical pioneers