I gotta agree about Florida -- having lived many other places (read: many colder places), I take advantage every chance I get to traipse around in flip-flops in the middle of what the less climatically fortunate call "winter".

It looks like Ophelia and O are still around, but I haven't come across any other familiar names yet (does Howie ever come back?). Oh well, times change. It looks like you've got a really active community now, which is great. It was pretty awesome "back in the day," too -- I made some good friends.