>>Well, up until about two weeks ago, this wasn't the case. In fact, my wife and I had plan to hit the old hometown in October. Perhaps, come February we'll make the trip, but that would be the earliest (and besides Chicago in February?? brrrr< g >).
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>Did you throw away your parka when you moved to Georgia? Besides, if this winter is anything like last winter... wait, what am I saying? <g> It's not THAT cold, really.

Oh no, I didn't when I moved here (1981) but I have since. I did, however, replace the old WoolRich down with a new one...complete with the Chicago Blackhawks embelem on the back and, of course, the Black, Red and White colors.

The only time it's really bad is when you're standing on the EL platform at Noyes in Evanston, the temperature (without the wind chill) is -5, there's a nice 20 MPH breeze blowing from the north, and there hasn't been an Evanston Express in the last 15 minutes.:-)