4AM
Now V/DT was striking back , angling for a government contract in Massachusetts , a fat bit of pork for managing payments to rightsholders whose media was assessed at the MassPike 's tollbooths . Rights-societies were a fabulous opportunity to skim and launder and spindle money in plenty , and Virgin 's massive repertoire combined with Deutsche Telekom 's Teutonic attention to detail was a tough combination to beat . Needless to say , the Route 128-based Tribalists who had the existing contract needed an edge , and would pay handsomely for it . London nights seemed like a step up from San Francisco mornings to Art -- instead of getting up at 4AM to get NYC , he could sleep in and chat them up through the night . The Euro sensibility , with its many nap-breaks , statutory holidays and extended vacations seemed ideally suited to a double agent 's life . But Art had n't counted on the Tribalists ' hands-on approach to his work . They obsessively grepped his daily feed of spreadsheets , whiteboard-output , memos and conversation reports for any of ten thousand hot keywords , querying him for deeper detail on trivial , half-remembered bullshit sessions with the V/DT 's user experience engineers .