Life/Work Balance in action

When I stop and consider how fortunate I am, the reminders come flooding into my mind. Just this morning, I awoke in Ojai and walked outside to find a star-filled sky. Looking to the west, I saw two shooting stars in the space of 5 minutes! Immediately, I noticed how warm it was...the Santa Ana winds last night brought us a temperature of 68 degrees...at 4:45am!
I began writing at 5am, and spent the next 95 minutes pouring ideas onto lined paper. Soon, the alarm rang (again)...it was time to go back outside.

Picture taken 02/17/2007  ~ 7:30am

The plan was to meet in Ventura. Our triathlon club puts weekend rides together, and today was one of my favorites. Ojai to Ventura to Santa Paula to Ojai. Along the way, before I met everyone at the starting point in Ventura, I stopped off at the beach and asked a couple to take my picture.

A colleague of mine - a financial analyst in NY and an Ironman triathlete - e-mailed recently to let me know it's very, very cold in NY these days. "Well," I say, "come out to CA for a little winter training!"