Are you ready to rock?

There are things I wish my kids had accessible to them when they were ten. 

My friend Henry is about to turn 10 and he has been taking piano lessons for years, and has recently started up with a rock music program in our city. Today was the big showcase. Some kids played New Wave and 90s grunge (Rio by Duran Duran, Cannonball by the Breeders). Henry's group played 6 songs and he and another little boy traded off on keyboards. 

Henry's songs were Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Come Together by the Beatles, and TNT by AC/DC. He was great. You could really hear him playing, and in these cases the "real" students are the guitar, bass, and drums but. Hen stole the show. If we are fb friends, the video is up there of the end of Paranoid when everyone is just whipping on their instruments, and it is worth the view.

His teacher let him get on the mic at the start, because he wanted to yell "ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?" to the audience. So he got to do that, and then went to do it again for the second song, which was hilarious. 

Hen, everyone continues to be ready and prepared for ongoing rock. you don't need to ask us. Sara was semi-mortified, his teacher was very caring and loving and pointed him back to his keyboard station. 

It all reminded me a little bit of the Shakespeare camp days when the kids were young. I'm feeling wistful and nostalgic while having TNT bounce around in my head. 

I really wish there had been something like this, especially for Geoff. He would have been great. There are things available to kids now that he didn't have, and things available to kids now that I'm absolutely relieved he didn't have access to. Suffice to say, a rock and roll music school would have been fun.

Doug went with me and I am thankful for that, because it gets dark early, and getting home was complicated. Lots of accidents and the GPS put us on mysterious back roads in areas of DC I've never seen. 

He seemed to have a genuinely good time.  

I had a lot of beer and pizza today, and that's carbtastic, my 9pm blood sugar is astounding. Before I go to bed, I'm trying to counteract that a little with some protein, and I should take myself for another walk. The boys are watching football in the living room, so I can't just do the walk around the house thing. It's too late to drive up to the gym (and I've had some beers) and too dark to go out walking in the neighborhood. Hopefully in an hour or so my blood sugar will come down some. 

I'm happy I didn't book any meetings for the morning. I'll ease into the day. Glad we went out to support our young musician buddy. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. 15 min indoor walk, 7100+steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

9:30am: 187
xpm: n/a no reading 
10:30pm: 238  

food:

coffee/water
11am: english muffin w/pb Metformin
2pm: 2 beers, chips & salsa
4pm: 2 beers, pizza w/ sausage (spicy!)
5:30pm: metformin+jardiance
6:30pm: apple & pb
8:30pm: several slices of turkey, protein shake