I head out from home in the AM with a scheduled stop in Chester, MD to get a rapid COVID test which was required for admission to the venue. I checked in to my hotel and got settled in before heading out to Merriweather via Uber. The Uber driver dropped me off on the wrong side so I took a nice leisurely walk around the place. The weather was perfect. Upon getting to the VIP entrance I ran into Matt Hueston and a few other diehard fans. We chatted for a while and were finally let in after VIP check-in & verification of COVID tests or vaccinations. I had a pit ticket for this show and it was glorious to be on the rail. Brittany Howard opened for MMJ; she is a phenomenal artist. Jim’s voice was so much better than it was at Red Rocks in 2019. The rest did him very well. Made a few new friends as I always seem to do at shows and before we knew it the show was over and I was heading back to the hotel.

I just got my new Picfair Image Shop linked to my website today. If you like any of my images you can license them for your own use. You can also order prints and framed prints if you so choose. I get 100% of the proceeds of my sales. Picfair will add a small fee on top of my licensing price. Watermarks shown on the images will automatically removed upon purchase.

Spent Saturday in Baltimore tooling around Inner Harbor and nearby points. Ended the night with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead @ MECU Pavilion on Pier 6. Always meet great people at JRAD shows and this show was no exception. Shout out to new concert friends JP, Jeff, Leroy, & Gena for providing the proper pit party atmosphere! 😉 The requirement for full vax or negative test wasn’t so bad. The first folks I encountered were asking for ID and vax card or negative test. I showed my info and they weren’t recording anything. Then came metal detectors then ticket scan then into the venue. Much more painless than I thought it would be. I’ve got a few more shows between now and my 2nd shot. I’m hoping I don’t have to get a test for every one of them.

Woke up this morning and headed into work. Once I got there I usually check Ethermine just in case. Sure enough at 5AM one of my Ethereum excavators dropped offline. I cursed as I remoted into the machine and found Windows just decided to stop running the task. ‘I’ve had enough of this bullshit’, I thought myself. This wasn’t the first time but if I’ve got anything to do about it it will be the last time. I imaged HIVE OS onto a vacant thumbdrive, configured the worker, and boom within a few hours I managed to get both rigs running HIVE OS. Heres to hoping my instability problems are finally over.

I had been holding these Alabama tickets since January 2019. The show was postponed initially prior to the pandemic and then it was postponed again due to the pandemic. I didn’t think I was ever going to get to see it but finally the show must go on! Tracy Lawrence opened for Alabama and his set was good. He sung a lot of old favorites from the 90s. Then Alabama came on stage and just blew everyone away. Randy Owen & Teddy Gentry are the last two original performing members of the group. I kinda figured it would likely be the last chance I got to see them sing and play and I am sure glad I did. I uploaded their performance of Tennessee River to my Youtube channel here.