Dat Phan's Birthday Party

World Famous is the restaurant where Dat Phan chose to host his birthday party this year. One degree of separation from this celebrity: Larry is his web programmer (along with Carolyn, a graphic designer on the far left.) Dat won "Last Comic Standing" in 2003.

As you might imagine, many of his friends are associated with his line of work. So half the room was filled comedians, writers, and significant others. Many social gatherings have witty banter, but it was taken up a notch today. Maybe they can't help but try out new material. The funniest comments were directed at the police officers patrolling the beach, presumably for open bottles. In our space, they were hitting on young girls. Hard to replicate the exchange here. Go see some of the comedians at the Comedy Store in La Jolla.

Carlsbad Marathon

It was a beautiful morning for the Carlsbad Marathon! Here's a picture of our intrepid Organic Athlete group who participated in the half marathon: Cynthia, Marissa, Dustine, Jim, Kathy, and Michele. Marissa and Jim were there to support the team, having joined us as "sweepers" on their bicycles during the Sunday training runs.

Dustine said that she found the last three miles very challenging. Congratulations to Dustine for finishing the race, even though she had a strained IT band three weeks prior to the race and got to ride on the back end of the beach cruiser for a portion of that 12-mile training run.

Kathy rode for 50 of the 100-mile Stagecoach Century ride the weekend before. She took a spill and bruised her ribs. A big organic carrot to her for running and finishing this 13.1 mile race!

Michele also rode in that chilly Century ride last weekend. Perhaps she would have been well protected from any fall with her 7+ layers of clothing. The Marathon race weather was much more ideal.

Congratulations to all Organic Athletes and I hope to train with you and participate in the La Jolla Half Marathon in April!

Muchas Smooches

What would life be without animals? That was the title of the chain email I received this week with a dozen cute animal pictures attached. Pointedly, one of them commented on the large hat-slash-mask on a kitten that some people should not have pets. Most of the pictures were of what pets do best: snoozing, relaxing, eating.

Here, Wooster and Cappuccino have know each other for at least 7 years now. But it doesn't hurt to get reacquainted now and again.

We moved the furniture around (again) which exposed a nice big sunspot area on the rug in the front of the room. The kitties were taking advantage of this new paradise (see Percy in the background.)