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Post 1845, Day 116 of 2017
- 2,308 days since I started this blog -
- 2,308 days since I started this blog -
My trip to New Orleans is coming up, and I'm trying to keep my expectations down.
Am I excited? You bet! I'm leaving next Tuesday for a solid week of good music and good food. Yes, excited. I've been revisiting the photos and videos of last year's trip. The fun and excitement of that trip doesn't seem toppable - wanting to top that this year would be to set myself up for disappointment. The bar has been set really high.
Reviewing the JazzFest lineup to work out a schedule (with eleven stages, JazzFest forces you to make choices, sometimes difficult choices). That's a lesson I learned last year. But the choices are just as wonderful this year, and just as difficult. And JazzFest accounts for less than a third of my waking time in New Orleans, so plenty of time for eating, walking around and more music! As always, the city scene itself is the star of the show.
I was talking on the phone with a friend about getting together tonight, and mentioned that I'd be going out of town next week. He couldn't get out that night, but ten minutes after we hung up, he called me back and asked if he could come along, too.
Now we're a party of three - party being the operative word. Later, at an open mic, I found out that another friend of mine, a great drummer, is also going down there (I think he'll be performing). Someone else to meet up with this trip (he knows my other friends). At the same open mic, a guitarist/singer told me he'd be going to NOLA next week as well. Finally, Alex's girlfriend Stacy's mom is getting into town a couple of days before I leave. It's like a signal from the heavens!
Gratefulness for the way my life is playing doesn't seem like enough - but it's what I have.
Am I excited? You bet! I'm leaving next Tuesday for a solid week of good music and good food. Yes, excited. I've been revisiting the photos and videos of last year's trip. The fun and excitement of that trip doesn't seem toppable - wanting to top that this year would be to set myself up for disappointment. The bar has been set really high.
Reviewing the JazzFest lineup to work out a schedule (with eleven stages, JazzFest forces you to make choices, sometimes difficult choices). That's a lesson I learned last year. But the choices are just as wonderful this year, and just as difficult. And JazzFest accounts for less than a third of my waking time in New Orleans, so plenty of time for eating, walking around and more music! As always, the city scene itself is the star of the show.
I was talking on the phone with a friend about getting together tonight, and mentioned that I'd be going out of town next week. He couldn't get out that night, but ten minutes after we hung up, he called me back and asked if he could come along, too.
Now we're a party of three - party being the operative word. Later, at an open mic, I found out that another friend of mine, a great drummer, is also going down there (I think he'll be performing). Someone else to meet up with this trip (he knows my other friends). At the same open mic, a guitarist/singer told me he'd be going to NOLA next week as well. Finally, Alex's girlfriend Stacy's mom is getting into town a couple of days before I leave. It's like a signal from the heavens!
Gratefulness for the way my life is playing doesn't seem like enough - but it's what I have.
Food and Diet
Today's Weight: 204.4 lbs.
Previous Weight (4/25/17): 205.3 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.9 lbs.
Diet Comment
This weight loss is important, if futile, as I'm a week away from spending a week in New Orleans - where eating is as big an attraction as the music that draws me there.
Food Log
Breakfast
7:05pm:
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
7:05pm:
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| Salmon-broccoli casserole with dal makhtani (red bean curry), chia seeds, hemp seeds. |
Skipped.
Dinner
1:30am: Roasted turkey breast chopped salad (roasted turkey breast, shaved parmesan cheese, chard, kale, spinach, balsamic vinaigrette) and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 0 oz.; Tea: 0 oz.; Water: 76+ oz. and a big shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey.
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