If there is anytime that a blog is actually worth updating, I guess now would be it. For the first time, the people who will be reading this are not the people that I see everyday! So without further a' du, I will resurrect this baby.

I made it from Boise to LA in two days without incident, as the drive was two lanes and 70 mph (or at least that was the speed limit ;) ) for most of the drive. It was the last 10% where I was entering the LA area that got crazy. I swear, it kind of snuck up on me and before I knew it, I was going 85 mph on a 55 mph highway (getting passed) in the middle of five lanes and trying to figure out where the heck I was and where I was going. With a bit of luck, I made it to Point Mugu without turning around once!

I had no idea what I was my job here really was, and it turned out the reason was because my job is confidential and secret. They gave me clearance to quite a few government secrets, and are currently doing a half million dollar background check on me. The great thing about that is that it will not be complete by the time the internship is over, and if I ever come back to the Navy (even just for an internship) they will have to do the investigation all over again. So... a few of you might be getting a phone call or a guy at your door asking about me.

Since so much of my job is confidential and secret, I can't talk much about it. I will be working for one guy, but he is out of town this week, so I was put with this guy who is just like Lumberg from Office Space. He is an electrical engineer and has been with the government for 15 years, but during the week that I was working with him I did not see him do one thing that was of any real value. He spends 50% of his time organizing his emails, files, and other things, 30% of his time trying to figure out where the heck he put the afore mentioned emails, files, and other things, 5% of his time waiting for his computer to finish a process (I don't think he knows that computers can multitask), and 15% of his time talking on the phone with other people about what he is "going" to do. Seriously, they could fire him, hire a secretary for much less and get so much more productivity! The good news is that I will not have to work with him anymore. My boss/savior will be back and I will not have to sit on my laptop, playing Freecell, and waiting for Lumberg to figure out what he is going to have me do (which has been pretty much nothing this week).

With nothing to do, I decided to leave early today and drive the 30 seconds to get to the beach (ok... actually I went home for lunch so it took me 4 minutes to get to the beach). I brought the DaVinci Code and sat on the empty beach. It was while I was lounging on the beach that I decided that I could really get used to this place. I don't understand why people are moving from here to Idaho.

So this will be the first weekend of a few to come where I will have no one to hang out with. So I will be compensating for that with tons of sight seeing. I plan on going to Santa Barbra, and taking a drive on the Pacific Coast Highway tomorrow, and maybe going to downtown LA on Sunday.

For now, it is Friday night. If only I was 21...