Well, this year's neighbors seem a bit better than the previous. Not only are there soda machines outside the house right behind us, but there hasn't been a red tagged house within a block so far (unlike before when every single house was red tagged, and then twice over). So far the only noisiness has been in the middle of the day (which was beautiful today between downpours), and that involved a car stereo and girls in bikinis on lawn chairs in a front yard.

Eden X - art by Jason Chen

LifeGem - while this seemed very wrong at first, I'm still vaguely intrigued, if only morbidly (no pun intended)