Los Angeles was interesting.

This was my first time there. The job involved three pick and place robots. I managed to crash all three. Two were violent enough to tear things up. There are some talks going on now between my boss and the owner of the company that built the robots for us over the crashes.

It wasn’t all work, though. I visited Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach. Not much to mention in Santa Monica but there was plenty of weirdness in Venice. Street performers, artists, ladies on skates and muscle men were all around.
The strangest sight of all, though, occurred right outside of UCLA Medical Center at a bus stop on the corner of Tiverton Avenue and Le Conte Boulevard. About 7:30a.m. Pacific Time I was driving into UCLA Medical Center to begin the day’s work. I glanced over and saw a dirty, grungy bearded, older man drop his trousers and defecate on the sidewalk. There were people on the sidewalk jumping back in horror as this occurred. As I drove on into work I couldn’t help but think, “Who’s going to have to clean that up?”