The day goes so much better when you start off with Cocoa Krispies and good surf.  Just sayin’.

March is here.  Winter

has fled.  Breakfast on the deck.

Life as it should be.

Had to get out this morning just to stop climbing the walls, but our extended June gloom has kept the coast foggy, and with ComicCon in town I didn’t want to go anywhere near downtown. Ended up at a cool diner one offramp away called Perry’s. Good cheap breakfasts and always a crowd, the mark of a good truck stop, and I don’t eat there nearly enough.

Then down to the zoo. I like my bears and puppies, so I watched both for a while. Sun Bears, Brown Bears and Spectacled Bears were all out and the African Wild Dogs stuck their heads up enough for some pictures. I think I was the only Golden Bear around, but sometimes we’re hard to spot.

On a related geek note, I’ve been very happy with the photo gallery. The drain on my bandwidth hasn’t been nearly what I feared (or my inflated ego said I should fear) and the feedback and comments have been great. Interesting to note though the wide discrepencies in the viewed photos. This shot of the poor Indian Gharail (a type of crocodile) at the zoo, admittedly a fairly ugly animal, hasn’t been viewed once since it was posted in May. On the otherhand, y’all seem to like brightly colored aquatic mammals a lot. And I was reminded just yesterday that we’re still number one for “red headed surfer” on Google. So I guess what I should be learning from the indirect feedback is to use more bright colors, a la National Geographic’s “red shirt school” of photography from the 1950s.

Just enjoying a San Diego Sunday after a very long week of work. I should be doing some work today but it’s not going well yet. Little Pongo had me up at 5, and since I was up, I was swimming laps by 6. I don’t know whether the rentacops here open the pool gates especially early some mornings, or they just never get around to locking them some nights, but today it worked to my advantage. Even though it was an hour before the apartment pool officially opens, I wasn’t alone. With the sun rising earlier and earlier, I guess others had similar ideas.

Then breakfast with some friends, restock on some Peet’s, and the Sunday Times. Got the paper all spread out and I’m waiting for some iced coffee (Sierra Dorada) to chill. All I’ve read so far is the sports section, but the swimmer part of me was really interested in this one, and the guy in me who used to bike a lot enjoyed reading this one. On the bicycle story, I’m not really sure if I like the article as much as the fact that he’s now probably going to have another great Armstrong post.

Continuing the sports topic, my little Palm electronic brain reminds me that next weekend is the San Diego Crew Classic. My posts from 2002 and 2003 are still available in the archives. Hopefully Cal will win again and I’ll get some pics up in about ten days or so.

And now transitioning into our fun-in-the-sun block, I received approval from the bar (after only about two months) last week to offer a CLE program through the beachlaw site. To the non-CA-lawyers reading, this hopefully means very little (thank gawd you’ve been spared); for the rest of you – one hour, self-study with a self-assessment test is currently up in a print-PDF-and-mail format. I’m still working on implementing a completely online version (the pay part became more involved then I expected it to be) but it will be up soon.