For the unwanted emails -- if they are really "junk mail," and not some site that you actually signed up for but are no longer interested in, why not just use the "block sender" feature of your email program? Most of the excessive emails that I get come from sites -- largely gardening sites, LOL -- that I thought I wanted to get notices from, but find that I never bother opening them, so why even get them. Unsubscribing really does work for those...
Ken, temps in the teens ARE cold, even for us northerners; especially when things are still kind of damp outside. I think we just expect to be cold in the winter so it doesn't feel like as much of an affront as for a person that hasn't dealt with it; I experienced the opposite effect when I lived in S. Carolina for about 6 months years ago (which included the hottest summer months) -- whew, I felt like i couldn't breathe!
