All this talk about the cold weather you all live in is a bit dismaying for me, who's lived in SoCal since the early 60's.

I wear shorts and zorries the year round...the only long pants I own are black slacks I need for the non-kilted music gigs I do. I and my son have never owned jeans. I actually didn't have any proper shoes save for my ghillies until all the rain inspired me to go out and buy a pair of trainers/tennis shoes two weeks ago.

Last Monday it rained all day and was the coldest day I can remember recently, the high being around 50 or maybe in the upper 40s... anyhow you could see your breath in the mid afternoon, extremely rare here. It almost never gets below freezing overnight this close to the beach, but that morning my car was covered with ice, also rare.