THE WEATHER: Right now it is as lousy as a beautiful day can be. The temperature is in the single digits and when I woke up this morning it was so cold outside that my runny nose froze over and the rhinoviruses had to put on skates to move around. Every year I tell myself that I will go to Aruba to live and every year I remain in New York to endure the barely endurable; I can't know why. A glutton for meteorological punishment, I guess.