Just another Wonderful Birthday Week

I haven't been posting much this past week because the penultimate week in April (which T.S. Elliot called "the cruelest month") is traditionally the hustle and bustle week of my birthday, which was Tuesday.




On Tuesday night, Amy and I went to the wonderful La Cachette restaurant in (sorta) Century City.



This is the sort of French restaurant where they pile on the sauces, where you can have sauteed frogs' legs as appetizers and a "hearty" multi-meat cassoulet as the main dish, where the waiters are obsequious and the chef works the dining room, autographing his cookbooks. We had a great time.




The rest of the week was a blur of court appearances and party preparation. At last, we had folks over on Saturday for the birthday party proper. Guests came from as far away as Santa Maria. This party was quieter than some (the guest list of my 40th birthday party was exploding, but the guests were choice.