[Rick TYler]

At the risk of sounding like -- you know -- a parent or something, wear a hat and smear sunscreen on your exposed skin. Skin cancer is nothing to joke about, and a teenage sunburn can lead to a melanoma at 40. If skin cancer doesn't actually kill you, you might be like my father-in-law who has had to have skin cancers carved out of his face and ears several times over the last 50 years -- and every divot leaves a scar. I grew up sailing and bodysurfing in Huntington Beach, and I have already had to have a painful treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions. I'd rather you all have pale skin (for you northern European types) than start growing skin cancers.

There. I know I sounded like a parent, but I feel better now.