Meeting with the Dr. tomorrow and we will go into this in depth. But here is my current thinking.
Basal at bedtime isn't the answer. Since my morning numbers typically are in the 80s, evening insulin would increase, by some unknown amount, the risk of an overnight low. So then I would have to eat a bedtime snack to counteract that, and now we're into Rube Goldberg territory -- complexity for complexity's sake, aka a solution in search of a problem. Seems to me this would also implicitly violate Dr. Bernstein's "Laws of Small Numbers."
So that leaves the possibility of basal in the morning. But since the long-acting insulins take several hours to reach operating strength, I would either have to wait 2 or 3 hours to eat breakfast -- which ain't gonna happen -- or else still be dealing with the same old spike, though (possibly) with a slightly shorter recovery time.
So I am inclined to begin with carefully calculated boluses, on the low side, monitor very closely, and see where that goes. As I say, we will discuss this in detail at tomorrow's appointment.