Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Saturday 10 December 2011

Red Carpet Club San Francisco

06.15

Red Carpet Club, San Francisco Airport.

Rising c. 03.45. Bags ready to go, into the FrippMobile, departing at 05.07 with a lunar eclipse underway.

Arriving in good time at SFO I…

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II...

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… and a speedy movement through check-in and security to the Club.

DevilThroad is not so painful, but much coughing and hacking.

07.14     E-flurrying. The Minx is in her first show of the day. Patricia is in her office. To the gate.

19.25 EST United Club, Newark Airport.

A straightforward, full flight…

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… with lotsa coughing. Landing to ongoing non-industry dissension I…

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II...

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Some e-flurrying in response which took up what, in a better world, would be gentling between flights. But this is what it is. Sometimes, we recognize a situation to be addressed; followed by recognition that we are a person well-placed to address it. Suffering follows.

To the gate.

23.11    BM415 Newark > Heathrow I…

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II...

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Here with the muckety-mucks…

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… and I have a booby on my right. He is fiddling enthusiastically with strands of his hair. His right foot, placed at the end of a leg that rests on the other one, is furiously twitching away. A game on his seat-screen is absorbing and requires much forward motion. His drink is beer. 

And mine is champagne, with a glass of ice on the side.
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