Venice

Aight... you guys might not want to read this since I'm just going to complain. Took me close to and hour getting home from the Santa Monica area because of the night construction they've been performing on the freeways. First getting off the 405 and onto the 10 was a big enough pain. I swear I crossed the freeway 5-6 times and had change direction atleast 3 times... ugh. 20 minutes spent in Santa Monica/Venice area just to find the right entry point where I could get onto the 10 merger only to find out that the 10 offramp was closed... That's where my 3rd 'u-turn' was.

Thank goodness I got gas before making my way home, otherwise it would have been a repeat of a few years ago when I had to gas up in one of the shadier parts of town.

It didn't end there, however... to finish it off, they closed my offramp. They left all the other off ramps open despite having blocked off the two right lanes... they just decided to close my exit. The next offramp is about a mile away because of the way the city is set up... and the street coming back is a 25mph street. Except no one goes 25 on that street because it's wide enough to go 50mph. So all said and done, a 25 minute drive turned into an hour long drive. -.-

On to more important matters... heading down to San Diego tomorrow to look for housing. I'm swinging between a ritzy zoo, the cheap but possibly more homely, and the affordable but professional and really close to work. The ritzy zoo has the best bang for the buck... except you get a lot of bang so you need a lot of cash. The cheap is actually not the cheapest... but it might be where I'll get the best company as the people are more or less my age and seem pretty outgoing. The zoo also has a few people my age too. The last place is cheap and close to work... but I'll be trailing in the age department by anywhere between 7 and 20 years. There's one other place... but I'm not really considering it... we'll see.

Group 2: 29/36 (80%)
Group 3: 52/58 (89%)