I'm from Santa Barbara, California, up the road a piece (about 35 miles north) of Eric B. Met Eric through this forum, also Andrea when he was in the States last year. Looking forward to meeting Scott Yee in February when he pays a visit to Southern California.

My wife, who is Dutch, is visiting her mother and other family memebers in the Netherlands at this time. (She's from Haarlem, about 10 miles west of Amsterdam.) Unfortunately the weather there is nothing like we're having here the past few days. Our weather here currently is actually nicer than our typical summer weather. But we could use a bit more rain soon.
Paul C.