Alba -- thank you so much for the Love and Light; I appreciate, and I will pass your message on to Dad, and I'm sure he appreciates it, too.

Kat -- I will definitely look into Boston, then. 10 years ago, I would have sworn up and down that the winters would be too cold for me (it was the cold winters in New York that drove me south in the first place), but I've since come to the conclusion that social coldness is far more bitter than a fierce North Wind...