I'm still adjusting to the new apartment. Not that the apartment is difficult to adjust to, it's that some of the things they said they would fix aren't fixed yet. The most annoying is probably the closet where I need to put most of my stuff. How can I feel moved in if all my stuff is still in the room in boxes? The other most annoying thing is the electrical. Ok, tell me if you've ever encountered anything that isn't like this. Typically, you have a light switch hooked up to one outlet in the room. Well, our apartment has one light switch hooked up to both outlets on a wall in each room. This is really annoying because first, it's not the best wall for the light and second, I have more than just lights to plug in and I would rather they not be controlled by light switches (i.e. computer being the most sensitive). Can you imagine using your computer and then your roommate casually switches off the lights as he goes to bed, and oops, my computer too? That's gotta be good for the hard drive. You could always tape the light switch so nobody uses it, but then we can't use any of our light switches for lights! Anyways, I put in the work request with 12 items on it. Hopefully, we'll get all of our requests fixed. The manager is pretty good. I don't think he's lazy. I just think he's preoccupied with renovating the building. Every morning I get woken up by hammers banging on the other side of the wall. I don't mind too much cuz I need to get up anyways, but it's still kind of a shock in the morning. This morning I opened my front door and there was a plastic sheet taped to the door frame on the otherside. I guess they thought I left for work already, ha ha. It was like when they covered the house in plastic in that movie, E.T. Anyways, I had to carefully peel myself an opening so I could get out of my apartment and then try and put it back as best as I could.

On my way home from work today, I noticed that this was one of those evenings where the sunset would be exceptionally awesome. So I quickly drove home and got my camera before heading over to the beach. I always wanted to do stuff like this, but when I lived in Westwood, the moment would be gone before I could even get my camera. Now my home is on the way to the beach so I was there taking pictures within a half hour. August sunsets are probably the best in the entire year for the Los Angeles beaches. I remember seeing some good ones this time last year. I can't really say how the sunsets are in the winter time. I'm usually still at work until dark. I'm willing to go out on a limb on my August claim though. Check them out here. If there any you would like in hi-res for your desktop or something, let me know the code number you want and I'll email it to you. Each one is about 1 or 2 MB. I'm still working on my photography skills. The hardest thing about these photos was taking a perfectly horizontal picture. This is really hard to do without a tripod and especially when you have a perfectly flat horizon. I got it pretty good in most of the photos. Other ones, the colors were too good to discard. A couple pics are a little grainy. I was messing around with too many settings I think. I think auto everything works best. I also discovered that 2200x1700 resolution is not as clear as 1600x1200 either because I didn't have enough light or I didn't have a tripod or probably both. I don't know, anybody have tips for a Canon S400? Oh, one cool thing to note about the pictures is the sun may look like it's behind the clouds in some of the pictures, but all the pictures were taken after the sun had completely set. It's a mystery.