No, Man, I'm FROM Peoria, IL and I have no desire to move back there. Lived in Phoenix since ten days after I graduated from Illinois State University in '86. I almost (literally) froze to death on the night of my 21st birthday when my friends let me pass out in their car because I couldn't hang until the 4 a.m. closing time at the bar we were at. It was -20 F. That's so cold your feet make this awful screeching sound when you walk across the snow on the ground.

Maybe that had something to do with it all. You don't ever want to be so cold you can't extend your elbows.

John B.