Observatorium III: Observatorium Hard With a Vengeance

Every time I've looked at the sky I've failed to see Venus. It's like a ridiculous curse; I can see all sorts of Canis and Orion and a whole handful of zodiacal numbers, but when I'm like "Mr. P. said there was some Venus up in here, where the Venus at?" it's nowhere to be found. I actually could be seeing it just as a bright star and ignoring it for all I know, but every time you tell us specifically where to look and I do I can't see it or that part of the sky is cloudy. What a huge load.