Well, the desert gets rain twice a year, for months. We just get sudden downpours in small storm cells, so it's unusual for the entire city to be wet at the same time, at least in Summer.

Noses. Yes. Mark Hamill's original nose in that sunset scene in STAR WARS. Peter Wingfield's nose. (They even have that joke about it in one script, "It's the nose, isn't it?")

Odd thing about ears? Realized why Michael Rosenbaum doesn't do a lot for me -- his ears are too small. :-)

Yeah, I've got a Music Major friend who envies my hands and my reach across piano keys. :-) I had this little problem with hating to practice that made me never as good as my hands might have desired.