The last minute

To Stupidville tomorrow, a paid visit this time! I'm on a consultancy trip to one of our first clients, a Small But Perfectly Formed Financial Services Corporation. They were our first client outside our home states of Baden-Württemberg and Bayern, and I still have a certain feeling of friendly gratitude to them for that vote of confidence.

Besides which, I met our contact man there in the foyer of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice last summer at an Arvo Pärt concert. Can't say fairer than that, guvnor.

As always, I have just now (11pm) finished burning the CDs and organizing my thoughts. It's not just architects who have trouble being ready ahead of deadlines; or is it that I used to be an architect?

The invoice for this trip will double my income for this month. Not that I charge obscene rates; on the contrary, this year has been very thin and June has been the worst month yet (only in part because I took that week off in Russia).

Something better change, as the Stranglers memorably sang in my first year in University.