If you ever get the chance to visit a place with a notoriously hot, slimy climate like New Orleans when it's actually cold, take it. I got lucky a few years back to visit New Orleans in the middle of a January cold snap when daytime temperatures were in the 50s and it was getting down into the 30s at night. Being able to walk around New Orleans, and ride streetcars and whatnot, while wearing sweaters and jackets was fantastic.
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” -- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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