McDonald's World Tour: Santa Monica Promenade

Field notes:
- Not participating in Dollar Drink promotion
- Outdoor seating features talented singer/songwriter Amy May, who for 10 dollars is selling "CDs" (like MP3s, but heavier)
- Steady stream of pedestrians, most attractive, some very much not
- Intermittent marine layer fog which should freakin' make up its mind already
- An intrepid pigeon that wishes(almost as much as I do) that I got a small fries.

Wake-Up Call

Every morning around 5am I receive an email from Google Calendar with my agenda for the day.  It synchronizes with Lotus Notes / Outlook at work, so frankly, it knows everything.  When I wake up with sleep in my eyes, roll over, and blurrily answer the red flashing light of my blackberry, this is my real wake-up call.

Well, I just got my email today:

A very different sort of wake-up call.  Ahhhhh....