Blues, Blues, Blues and Baseball

Friday night Jim and I met our friend and avid music fan John Thompson about 7 p.m. for dinner at a small Italian bistro in Falls Church, Argia's (http://www.argia's.com), near the State Theatre (http://www.thestatetheater.com/), where we went afterwards to hear well known local blues players Tom Principato (http://www.tomprincipato.com/) and Coco Montoya (http://www.cocomontoya.com/). Both dinner and the concert were fantastic, but we didn't get home until well after 1 a.m., so our butts were already dragging yesterday afternoon when we headed out again, about 4, with our friend Paula McKenzie to Annapolis (aka, Naptown, don't ask me why) to dinner and a show at the Ram's Head Inn (http://www.ramsheadtavern.com/annapolis/index.html). It was the final night of the Chicago Blues Reunion (http://press.arrivenet.com/ent/article.php/665913.html) tour and one of the featured performers was one of our favorite women of blues, Tracy Nelson (http://www.tracynelson.com/TracyNelson/index.htm). Dinner was good, and it was another fantastic show.

We had tickets to this afternoon's Nationals game, but by today we were so totally pooped we couldn't drag ourselves out, so are having to content ourselves with cheering them on via television. We could write our own blues tune, I guess - "Done In by the Blues"?...or maybe, "Too Old to Nonstop Boogie"? Anyone have any other suggestions?