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Good evening, mustache nation.

Due to, ahem, interesting file keeping procedures, the unveiling of one formidable stache was delayed. Please feast your eyes on these fiesty nose neighbor - courtesy of one of San Diego's favorite sons: Jeff Butler.

Yeah. You bet your ass that just happened.

Oh, and tomorrow's check in will be at the Blarney Stone Pub in Clairemont. Details provided below. I plan to be there at 6:30ish. Bring friends, neighbors, loved ones, new friends, old stand-bys, etc. We are all old men, and I doubt that we will be out past 9PM since this is a work night. And again, we're old (or distinguished/refined - whatever comes first). Take care and have a good evening.

5617 Balboa Ave; San Diego, CA

1.	Take the CA-274/BALBOA AVE East for about 2.5 miles
2.	Turn RIGHT into the Vons/Mervyns shopping center (after Genesee Ave)
3.	The pub is in the South-East corner of the mall
1.	I-805 (coming from either North or South)
2.	Take the CA-274/BALBOA AVE WEST exit
3.	Go West on BALBOA AVE travel about 1 mile
4.	Turn LEFT into the Vons/Mervyns shopping center (before Genesee Ave)
5.	The pub is in the South-East corner of the mall

Check In Photos!

Good evening everyone,

Even though Thanksgiving has come and gone, we still find ourselves thankful for one thing: Our sweet staches. They are blossoming quite well! Take a look at these gems. Also, keeping everything in perspective, our donations are coming along very well, too. Just thought I would put that out there :)

Good night, San Diego, and be prepared for greater mustaches and bigger donations in the very near future!

Check In #1 Moved & More!

Good evening Growers,

After careful deliberation, the powers that be (Sean and I) have decided to modify some of the dates. There are a lot of things to consider and I don't think that there is any one schedule that will fit everyone's availability. Some growers have class on Mondays and Wednesdays, while some have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and others still have class on Wednesday and Thursday! We don't want to horn in on everyone's weekend on multiple occasions, so consistent Friday - Sundays won't work (especially with football commitments!). Anyhow, here's what we are looking at:

Check in #1: This will be on Thursday, 11.19.2009 at 7PM at "The Hungry Stick" in Clairemont. There will be beer and pool tables. Sweet.

Check in #2: We'll keep this as is for now.

Stache Bash!: This will now be held on 12.11.2009. Time and place TBD.

If any of this changes for whatever reason, I assure you all ample heads up. In the mean time, thank you all for your flexibility!

If you cannot make it to a check in, just email me a photo update. We will take photo updates at the check-ins, so come shaven - save for your spectacular stache! Also be prepared to talk about your current donation totals. It is important to remember that, underneath all of the organizational aspects, it is for the kids!

Oh yeah. I am thinking that a random meeting on a Monday would be good. That way the Growers with mid-week commitments can still meet with their brothers in stache and throw back a few cold ones. Thoughts?

OK, that'll do it for now. Hit me back with your emails and we look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

More Growers! Holy Moly!

Did you see that title?!

That's right, friends. We have even more growers to show off to one and all. Please meet Brian and Tyson. I expect greatness from both of these fine folks. Not only that, but these are clearly the two happiest Growers in all of San Diego. Look at those smiles!

Brian Goold: Happy, Smashing Pumpkins genius, Grower. One cool dude!

Tyson Jouglet. He's been game since I said, "Let's grow Mustaches!" Simply put, Tyson rules.

In other news, I believe that the dates for the Stache Bash and the check-ins might need to be revisited. It has come to my attention that there is spotty availability for some growers on Tuesdays - Thursdays. I recognize that it may be hard to figure out a mutually convenient time for one and all for all dates, but Stache Bash is the most important of all the dates, so let's pull our brains together and (at the very least) make the final day of our Growing Season available for all. Right now the Stache bash is slated for 12.10.2009. If that works, let me know. If it doesn't work, let me know and also provide dates around the 10th that will work for you. Originally we avoided weekends because we feared that our group might be too cumbersome to fit into a bar. Perhaps, and maybe for the better, we are better off starting with a smaller-than-anticipated group because it means that we don't need to worry about getting a massive reservation or anything.

Phew! OK, so I will start. Christian can do 12.10.2009 and 12.11.2009 for the Stache Bash. As for the check-ins, I can be where-ever, when-ever. What can you do?

keep it stachey, San Diego.

Meet Our Growers: Part Two (Part One Provided Below)

Yes - there's more where that came from! Blogspot has certain limitations when it comes to how many pictures you can provide in a single post. Let's be proud that our ranks require two posts! Roll call:

Mike Attia. Five bucks says his stache will rule the school.

Arjun Iyer. The guitar actually plays music, which means that Arjun officially has a shirt as boisterous as he is.

Meet Our Growers: Part One

Growing season is here, and it feels good. All of our growers assembled before the bathroom sink (separately, of course) in the common ritual of shaving our faces until they became as smooth as the hood of a freshly waxed Camaro. With clean faces and charitable hearts, we have descended upon our hometown with but one goal: helping children make their wishes come true this holiday season. Wanna help? I know you do. To make a donation, let us know by emailing m4ksandiego@gmail.com

Before we sign off, allow me to introduce our soon-to-be scraggily growers. Roll call!

Sean "I'm ready for my close up" McNeil

Christian Baker: M4KSD webmaster, orange shirt owner.

Tony Flor: "Make sure you leave my pajama bottoms are out of the shot..."

John Baker, Jr. "Why M4K? 4K - that's why!"

Jeff Butler. He gets his caption on top because Blogspot said so: that's why. Literally... I can't figure out how to get it down there...

Clean Shaven Day is tomorrow!

Clean Shaven Day is tomorrow! Please check in soon to see the lovely baby faces of all of our participants. Also, many thanks to Dani Butler for flyering around town this past weekend. This is a reminder to all sentient creatures that the charitable stache is more in the heart than on the upper lip.

"Celebrate good stache, come on! It's stache-ebration"

Team Stache: San Diego
m4ksandiego@gmail.com