A busy busy month. Putting the finishing touches on a long project in support of my Indistinct Borders album - the inspiration for the music in fact - transcription of a long out of print Polish book "Chronicals of Lake Narocz" by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz written imediately preceeding the outbreak of WWII, set in what was then the Polish/Lithuanian borderlands. I am writing the commentary now and hope to upload it to my public site this week. Making valuable contacts with new Virb friends, notably Nagual Art in Germany - see Reviews and continuing correspondence with Mark Tamea who is getting a lot of interest now in his excellent "Buried Traktora" album on Jamendo.com - much deserved! Reading Ian Mitchell's valuable record of the Lord Aldinghton vs Tolstoy libel trial. Listening to Nagual Art's sublime "A Lucid Winter Wonderland" album (see Reviews). And the Justice "cross" album - that I would describe as a soundclash between Parliament and Air - with the P-Funkers comming out on top. It's all a bit quiet on Virb over the holiday as folk do the sensible thing and keep the computer switched off - unlike Deviant Art where my wife "lives" and which was rocking on Christmas Day. I have re-worked my album cover to "tone poem for hidden places viewed from a train" in Super Jewel case format, with perhaps my best artwork to date (which suggests a rework of my other album art...). The package costs me a lot (50p for the case, 1.70 for the paper, 15p for the CDR = about £2-50 for material costs), so it would now be nice to sell them. My wife is a search engine optimisation whizz, so I will be enlisting her efforts in the new year. But I AM already Google ranking number one on "Battle of Lake Narocz" - part of my Lake Narocz work - wait until I upload the entire book plus supporting commentary!