Purple Lodge, front desk. The only accurate record on the island. Please do not request the original.
- 11:02 PM
- Shift start. Lamp working. Desk bell working. Desk bell has been asked to stop working after midnight. Desk bell declined.
- 11:40 PM
- Leon passes desk with sax case. States he is leaving. Logged as: departure, provisional.
- 12:15 AM
- Radio Guy calls to report that the station is on the air. The station has been on the air for as long as there have been logs. Logged anyway. Consistency is the whole job.
- 12:31 AM
- Guest asks if the pool is open. Pool is closed. Calvin is in it. Answered both questions.
- 12:58 AM
- Rack light in Engineering blinking red. Walked over. Pressed it. Green. Engineering has asked me not to log this. Logged as Coincidence #42.
- 1:20 AM
- Management requests a copy of tonight’s log “for the record.” Explained that I am the record. Management asked to hear it. Played it. Management asked why it has a beat.
- 1:47 AM
- Goat on the maintenance channel. States it is absolutely not a raccoon. Logged verbatim. Verbatim is now a two-bar loop. It is very catchy. This is not my fault.
- 2:17 AM
- Mabel wants to know who used the last clean towel. I know exactly who. I have it on tape. It is currently the hi-hat on track four.
- 2:40 AM
- Willie at the desk with a story about tonight’s set. Story arrived roughly forty percent improved. Recorded both versions for Ruby.
- 3:05 AM
- Skycrane over the tower. Nobody scheduled it. It brought an antenna, or took one. Logged as: antenna event, direction pending.
- 3:20 AM
- Truck behind the Garage is warm to the touch. Nobody has been driving it. Logged. Not looked into.
- 3:33 AM
- Request line, Marlene at the lakeside dock. Wants “the song with the bus in it.” Played it. Lines lit up. Nobody asked how the bus got here. Everybody asked to hear it again.
- 4:10 AM
- Vern at the desk. Read the log. Looked at me. Nodded. Left. Entry reads: “Vern.” It is complete and accurate.
- 5:30 AM
- Somebody found the kitchen keys. Kitchen closed. Breakfast delayed. Filed under NOT IT.
- 6:00 AM
- Shift end. Tonight’s record: complete, accurate, 3:42 long, 98 BPM. Original on file. The file is in the mix.
