We leave the house at 5:30am.  Since it’s only a 4 1/2 hour drive, we end up getting arena a little after 10.  My arrival time was scheduled for 2 (but Nick’s head would have exploded if we had been late), so we grab some lunch and kill some time.  We get back to the IZOD Center around noon, and I spend about 15 minutes warming up in the car – and watching other singers smoke their last cigarettes (wha?)…