Merry Chirstmas from Southern California! We're having our classic Rose Bowl weather. It's about 85 degrees out there right now, but with global climate change I just spoke to my family and it's a relatively balmy 45 in Duluth MN. Seriously, our monsoon season usually starts exactly on January 2nd, and then it's nothing but rain and hillsides coming down through the end of February.

Enough of my weather. Merry Christmas one and all.

Mike