(Wednesday and Thursday)
Geoff and I left home at 3:45 and I was sure we'd be in Baltimore fast but traffic was horrendous. Linda had a difficult time coming down from New York as well.
The concert Geoff was going to was over at Baltimore Soundstage, so we parked the car over there so he'd have it to head home. I walked to the hotel where Linda and I were staying to meet up with her.
We ate dinner, rather than try to check in because the line was a mile long. We finally got on line to check in and .... Our room was not ready. We got dressed in the bathroom, concierged our bags, and walked over to the venue. Thunder! Lightning! AaaaaAAaaaAAAA!
I just want to say the staff at the CFG arena is so wonderful. Security was so sweet. I saw some really fun and very kind interactions. At the end I told the security lady in our section, who stood behind us, I was so impressed with her and how wonderful she and all the other staff I saw was. She said "make sure you always buy tickets in my section in the future. I'm always here!"
The show was spectacular, a true giant rock show with pyrotechnics and a truly amazing video wall backdrop. Mind blowing. The setlist is here, if you're at all familiar with the band. They're playing a lot of the same songs at each show on the tour, with very little variation, because everything is so precise and where people stand for what solos, where Tobias is, everything has to be just right.
I was really happy that they played the song Rats, which is one of the songs that got a lot of airplay when it came out. Especially in Baltimore. As I was watching the show, I said "if they don't play Rats, it's a completely missed opportunity." Thankfully we got it.
I didn't look at the set list online for previous shows to see if it was there. They played a lot of songs I don't know, but Linda knew 99% of them. But Rats, Square Hammer, Cirice, and Dance Macabre were the songs I really wanted to hear. One other one I wanted wasn't on the set list (Spillways) but that's okay.
They gave me what I wanted and a whole lot more.
Baltimore Rats. If you know, you know.
The lead singer has a policy of no phones at the show. He wants people to be in the moment, at the show, not looking at the show through their screens. I get it, but also, it's not the 1980s anymore and we are in a very different time. Everyone had to put their phones in a little bag, that could only be opened again with a demagnetizer tool.
It's kind of a drag because I love taking pictures of the fans at a Ghost show. So many people dressed up. The girls next to us were so amazing.
We got back to the hotel, wide awake until 1:30am. I woke up to pee at 7:30, and Linda heard me. She is a once I'm up I'm up kind of kid, but I tried to convince her to go back to sleep. She couldn't so she went downstairs. I got back out of bed, couldn't fall back to actual sleep but enjoyed quiet restfulness for a half hour, until the fire department went out with sirens blazing.
Lin wanted to go back to NY, so we loafed around the hotel, drank coffee, got packed up and out the door. We got me back home a little after noon, and her on the road. She texted me that she got there at 7:45pm. Long assed trip. I wished she'd stayed but was glad she made it home alright. She gets to come back in a couple weeks. Can't wait.
Thursday was a bit of nothing but relaxing. I worked a lot and found I had missed a whole swath of help documents to audit so that consumed my afternoon. Doug took Toffee for a walk, and I did a long walk inside at top speeds. It was easy to break 11k because I got close to 1,000 steps after midnight! maybe that's my sneaky way to get the 10k steps in for the day instead of falling short. Just do steps after midnight!
Digits for 2 days below.
Wednesday digits
exercise: 11/12 hours. Missed 4pm by a few steps; 22 min/.96 mile walk from parking garage where I dropped Geoff to the hotel. 11k+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9:15am: 126
n/a pm: n/a
11pm: 176
food & meds:
9:15am: phentermine+jardiance
11:30am: english muffin w/pb & low sugar jelly
2pm: met+glip
5:30pm: chicken quesadilla, some white wine
9:30pm: met+glip
11pm: cheese, crackers, some pepperoni
mimosa
Thursday digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. indoor walk, 35 min/1.72 miles. pokemon walk, 11,500+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9:15am: 126
5 pm: 109
10pm: 124
food & meds:
9:15am: phentermine+jardiance
2pm: english muffin w/pb & low sugar j; met+glip
6:30pm: 3 italian sausages w/sauce and cheese
8:30pm: ramekin of mixed nuts
9:30pm: Met+glip
red wine
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