Heh, I'd much rather have my Nagoya weather than 
this blizzard stuff we've been having all this 
week and last.  We just totally got dumpped on 
tonight; and of course my sister-in-law had to 
go out shopping today, of all days, and had to 
stop over at our house with her three SICK kids 
(they all have the flu and were...getting sick 
everywhere) because the roads were so bad...  
=P  But TK, be glad that you're far enough away 
from Lake Michigan that you don't got so much of 
this wonderous stuff they call lake-effect 
snow.  It's been a LONG time since I lived over 
on the east side of the state, so I dunno how 
much accumulation you get simply from lake-
effect snows...but Winter in Michigan is 
anything but fun...  I'm a fire sign after all.

KEEP WARM!
Rekka