thanks for the sympathy nick. the 101 isn't tooo bad. not the best freeway... but i like listening to my tapes while driving. it takes a little under an hour to drive to universal city. hey, i interviewed for mccann-erickson advertising and my interviewer cited your company as one of their competitors. and i thought it would be funny if i worked there because we would be "enemies" in work and in school (ucla v. usc). grrr... hah hah.