I grew up in the suburbs outside of DC. I gather by your benign tone that you must have spent little of your time there driving in DC, which is good. Most people lose a little san when they have to navigate the almost antagonistic curves of DC's 'roads'. I grew up going to the Smithsonian's museums and was shocked on moving out here to find that museums charge. I tried to show them all to Moon when we visited last fall and failed miserably, yet happily. My condolences for your comp.

-RC