I think it means she would be pretty much where she is now, mortgage-wise. Which sounds like a workable outcome, so yay!

Okay Cashmere, you win this time!

In 2008, the New York State Department of Health announced that NYC won the coveted title for best-tasting drinking water in New York, which vindicated our tap when we came in 2nd earlier that year during an unscientific blind taste testing. But while many of us don't even feel the need to filter our water through a Brita, we don't actually have The Best tasting water according to some people. No, that title has just been handed to Stevens Point, Wisconsin (pop. 25,000).

The Wall Street Journal reports that we did, however, come in 2nd—the highest honor the city has received at the American Water Works Association’s annual contest—where winners are declared following taste-test competitions. The NYC Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway declared: “[this] confirms a fact that locals have known for decades: New York City water is simply the best.” Er, simply the 2nd best.

I would have a very small mortgage in Texas, mostly so I would have a cushion until I get a job. If I get job quickly or keep this one for a while remotely, I will use the mortgage money to pay off CC debt and/or buy awesome pink things for my garage.

Very cool. It's very satisfying to pay debt off. I wish I was better at the saving bit.

I really sucked at this quiz, but I suspect someone like bt would get close to 100% on it: [link]

Do you know a weasel from a wimpzilla? Try this quiz, presented by New Scientist at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Questions by Stephen Battersby

Good luck, msbelle!

Why did I click on that Manhattan restaurant link?? Now I am sad again that there is no Korean neighborhood here.

Oh, god, today is kicking my ass.

I think that means what used to be a turkey bacon guac from Quizno's.

And then heads down on the PM deliverables.

That's the main thing I love about my area of the suburbs. Where I grew up (in Joliet), we were in the antithesis of "diverse community." Hell, I never tried decent Chinese food until I went to Milwaukee for college! When I first moved up here to the NW 'burbs in 1993, residents were either white or Hispanic, and whites were not recent immigrants, either. That's why I moved to Oak Park after a few years, because I couldn't bear it any longer.

Then, when I moved back here in 2006, everything had changed. My town has immigrants from all over the world, the restaurants range from Russian to Korean to Italian to Mexican to Thai in a few miles, the houses of worship are equally diverse (there's a wonderfully-designed Hindu temple in the middle of the industrial valley I drive through on my commute to work)--it's so incredible how everything shifted in only eleven years.

You should write a column for Time Magazine!

(Only half kidding)

A moose hit my sister once...