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So, it turns out that when my computer goes into standby, it shuts off the wifi, which in turn completely disrupts uploading movies to youtube and making you start over every time. In order to finish this thing I'd have to keep the computer from going to sleep. Between not having a power outlet handy and the slow internet making the upload take over a freaking hour, this is very difficult to do. Right now, it says 17 minutes left. I have my doubts.

In any case, the trip down to L.A. went well. It took about 6 hours. The first 4 sent us down the middle of California, also known as the Land of a Million Cows and No Hills. Seriously. It was flat and vacant the whole time, but pretty in its own way.

(I'd show you a picture right here and say "See?" beneath it, but it seems that even that is too much for this connection to handle. Use your imagination.)

We gradually made our way through the Santa Catalina (I think) mountains, which were really beautiful, and then down into the valley, with Los Angeles spread out before us.

L.A. is HUGE. the other cities I've spent any amount of time in, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Sacramento; they all have distinct features, geographic and man-made, which help orient me and sort of set the city's boundaries. Not so here. It's just endless city in all directions, and I don't think I like it.

We're living in the basement of Chapel of Peace. Its kind of grungy, and we have to go outside and through like 3 doors which may or may not be locked to get to the bathroom. We have to drive 10 minutes to use the public showers at a nearby park. We sleep on cots. Its pretty cool and will make for an interesting 6 weeks. We're also working for Chapel of Peace, but they're not really sure what they want us to do, so I hope to work on project invention and execution on this project. Oh, and Inglewood isn't quite as bad as it once was, I'm told. Still not a place I'd walk around alone at night, or leave my stuff sitting in the car for any amount of time, but we're not going to get mugged on sight so rest easy, old folks.

Well I think this is enough of a check in for now. I really want to get some pictures and videos up so I don't want to get too much further into things until I can. Let's see, my video right now has...21 minutes left. Great. I'm going to cot.