This is why they have warning signs around trucks carrying those bullet shaped gas canisters: [link]

Holy moly.

Sheeit.

Holy moly indeed. It occurs to me that I haven't heard about any manhole covers flying into the air, which usually happens in the summer. Maybe they got the problem fixed (ha! this is DC! they're celebrating getting the elevators at the main library fixed ... after, um, 10 years or so). Watch - it'll be on the news tonight!

Low 80s is very good, much higher than your average address, seriously.

Well, yeah, but Google apparently doesn't know about the Star Market (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) five minutes from my parents' house.

Gas explosions in Dallas on the news. With NYC, SF and now this I worry.

Eep. Hadn't made that connection, but now? APOCALYPSE!

Guess they don't count high probability of getting mugged or knifed while you walk against the score, either.

We got a 38, probably because they also don't consider the ease (or not) of crossing streets.

94 in my current place - probably would be higher because they have the park showing way farther away than it is.

83 for the new one, which is kind of higher than I expected.

What is it with Texas and stuff blowing up, though? I swear, every time I turn on the Discovery Channel, it's about (a) Tenerife air disaster or (b) that shmuck in California who thought it would be clever to build a gas main right below a 15d grade or (c) massive explosions in Texas.

And, like, the first two, at least they only happened once each, right? (The second one sort of happened in stages, where, if you didn't get your house demolished by a crashing train, you got to see it blow up two weeks later.) But Texas seems to have massive explosions all the time.

Heh. Our place gets a 72, but most of the places they list are really not the businesses I would prefer to use. Our neighborhood itself is great, but we're right near a busy main street with kind of skanky and/or religious stores on it. The program assumes I'd love to use the Theosophical Library Center as my local bookstore, Food 4 Less as my local grocery store, and the Right to Life League as my local library (there's a Planned Parenthood a block from here and a huge ethnic population that skews Christian; hence the emphasis on religion).

We do have good walkable coffee, a great neighborhood park, a couple of good restaurants (who else has a vegan drive-through, fast food restaurant in walking distance, after all?), and access to the subway Gold line, however. Love my neighborhood. I do wish we were a tiny bit closer to all the good stores and such on Colorado, but I am really not complaining.

Congrats on the upcoming review, pd!

Happy Birthday, vw!

My corset is too big (no gap when laced) now that I've lost weight. That's really not a reason to buy a second one, is it?